Is evaluating employees for work and mentioning their good and bad traits considered backbiting?
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Question:
Our brother also says: Sometimes circumstances require us to evaluate the performance of employees in terms of discipline and output, and sometimes we describe some employees with unfavorable traits. Is this considered backbiting?
Answer:
This is not backbiting, if what you mentioned is true and actually present in the employee. It is obligatory for you to be truthful and just. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-An'am 6:152]. It is obligatory for the one who oversees these matters and evaluates employees and their grades to be truthful, just, and fair, and not to wrong anyone, and not to conceal the defects of some employees; because this is deception in the work. Yes.
Our brother also says: Sometimes circumstances require us to evaluate the performance of employees in terms of discipline and output, and sometimes we describe some employees with unfavorable traits. Is this considered backbiting?
Answer:
This is not backbiting, if what you mentioned is true and actually present in the employee. It is obligatory for you to be truthful and just. Allah the Exalted said:
And when you testify, be just, even if [it concerns] a near relative.
وَإِذَا قُلْتُمْ فَاعْدِلُوا وَلَوْ كَانَ ذَا قُرْبَىٰ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تقييم الموظفين من أجل العمل وذكر صفاتهم الجيدة والسيئة يعد من الغيبة؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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