paraphrase Nepotism relates to favoring the relatives of employees when making employment decisions. Many employers have anti-nepotism policies to prevent the consideration of familial ties in making employment decisions. Nepotism is generally not a favored recruitment tool for the same reasons that word-of-mouth recruiting and employee referrals are problematic. Specifically, if an employer's workforce is made up of primarily one ethnic group and the employer favors the relatives of current employees when making hiring decisions, that favoritism could violate Title VII's prohibition against discriminatory conduct. Employers who decide to use nepotism as a recruitment technique should maintain a firm commitment to using both objective and neutral hiring criteria when dealing with family members of current employees to minimize (but not eliminate) potential liability for discriminatory conduct