Nepotism In The Philippines

Introduction Nepotism is the unfair practice by a powerful person of giving jobs and other favours to relatives. This should be only limited in Philippine Politics for it has Constitutional prohibitions. But there are some practices of nepotism in some other business like in a family owned types of business and it is somehow a good thing. Example is the Section 9, Rule XIII of the 1998 Memorandum Circular No. 40 of the civil service commission, also in this section; there are exemptions from the operation of the rules on Nepotism which will be all discussed in this paper. Nepotism happens every time not only in our government but also in other types of businesses. In Philippine politics, the goal is to have professionals in the system

The very history of democratic is the story of the fight against nepotism. The war against nepotism is simply led by America in the 18th century starting with the abolition of English inheritance practices. It continued in the 19th century with the creation of federal civil service based on merit and efficiency rather than family connections . It is simply a curse because it corrupts one’s country thus make’s the country in a lower state of level in the world. In the Philippines nepotism is a connection which we call “Compadre System “in terms of economic and employment. Nepotism happens in the Philippine government, when you favour or promote your relatives to a higher position so they can also do what you did to others. Favouring relatives rather than ability and merit, this issue happens every time not only in government sectors but also in many kinds of businesses like family kinds of

But fairness unfairly dominates our culture, and crowds out the virtues of favouritism . For me this statement says that fairness is a must in the government but slowly fades in our culture and brightens up the virtues of favouritism. Meaning, the fairness in the government is not being practiced anymore creating many negative effects in our society, and yes it crowds out the virtues of favouritism meaning favouritism is being more practiced then fairness. Yes, it is true that blood is thicker than water but it doesn’t mean that it is always right. Simply means that our kith and kin are more priorities than others, yes because they are your blood but not every time. Why, because if you always prioritize blood for example in work others will think of you as bias to them resulting in less productivity in your company. In this kind of situation comes the state of the level of the company. As they have said when you become bias to others they will be less productive and the level and reputation of the company is at stake and so this is one example why nepotism is not good in the work