perceptionn of family business
Author: Hector
There is perception in the public that the family owned company will unfairly treat the non members of family in the company. This perception is supported by a survey conducted in Surabaya, Indonesia. The respondents of the survey are young job seeker and the goal of the survey is to get their opinion about family business. The survey came with the result that 80% of the respondents believe that there is an unfair treatment between family members and non family members in the company owned and managed by family.
Is that really happened?
That survey only indicated about the perception of the job seekers, and another survey conducted by the Jakarta Consulting Group which the target respondents are the family owned companies and to know how the organization manage their career path of the employee especially the family members. The result showed that 36.8% of the respondents (the family owned companies), the family members directly got the strategic position in the company, 20.7% family members got the special treatment, 16.1% the family members have to follow the regular career management, but with the special policy with the shorter period to follow. And only 26.4% of the respondents have no special treatments to family members regarding the career management.
This survey gave the indication that there is an unequal treatment in the family owned company (family business) between family and non family members and also became a proof of the perception in public about unfair treatment in the family business. This is an important issue for the family owned companies, because the unfair or unequal treatment between family and non family members has showed that the organization have tendency to operated and managed not in professional way.