On 8/20/2011 11:46 AM, Aaron T. Dossey wrote:
Maintaining the quality of one's marriage, personal life, sexual relationships, etc. is not an employer's, University's, Department's, the tax-payer's (for public institutions and those who receive government grants/funds) or even society's responsibility.
Correct, it is the universities task to keep the best workforce around that they can hire. And if they deem that that requires to do a spousal hire, it is in their own best interest to do the spousal hire.
In the case I am most familiar with, their trophy employee got an offer from another university, who was willing to hire his spouse. So, his then and current employer made a counter offer including a spousal hire as well. It was competition between universities that resulted in the spousal hire. They did not give a damn about his personal life, they did not want to loose their trophy hire.
Kim
