Building the Best Team Possible: Relationships Between Family and Non-Family Employees
In our experience working with family business we often hear of key non-family employees who become anxious or frustrated when working with, or overseeing family employees-especially in the next generation. We commonly hear reports of family members underperforming or being under qualified for the positions they are given, displaying attitudes and behaviors that would get non-family employees fired. Fortunately, there are successful strategies for avoiding these situations that can lead to discouragement and deteriorating motivation for your non-family managers, as well as unsatisfying results for the business itself. The first step is to develop a clear and transparent process for integrating relatives into the business. Often, families handle family employment in a very informal manner, and history has shown an informal method is much more likely to produce negative employment complications. A clear process might include the establishment of a summer jobs program for high school stu...