From the last time I wrote the blog life has changed from
campus to corporate. The joy of working and earning is making me happy in heart with the search for growth of career in your heart.
The feeling of a MBA in the highly engineering focused
company is going just awesome. The world of machines and the thirst for
improvement that is driving the organization is awesome to watch from the eyes
of an MBA. When the theories you learnt in the classes seemed obvious that time, to real
life where things are nowhere near those obvious rules.
Thanks to the opportunities that still make us work in the
case study mode.
Change management seemed to be just another set of cases I
used to listen in the organizational behavior days but that seems to be the one
which actually works in the organization. The resistance to change from the
root to the top. People accustomed with a certain style of working, employees
who see any action as an encroachment on their rights seem to be a challenge
the organization face.
But in the other angle, the management philosophies turn
towards the most important resource of the organization as the human resource.
In the government organization though lately, people have started using that
word with more importance, I find very less focus on that area. Money is
something the government has decided to pay the people as salary. In every
organization, there is a limit to which money can work towards the employee
satisfaction. There are different things that would bring an employee closer
towards organization.
In this context I always draw parallel between the private
firm where I worked as an intern and my present employer. Though the firm was involved in heavy engineering like my present employer, the level of hygiene and focus on
safety being hard pressed by the organization had made me feel like being in
any other MNC I found in the software parks of Technopark or Infocity.
If the employee is the prime focus of the organization
definitely the employee will be loyal to work in the organization, else he will just be present in the organization. But in
Government, the employee is taken for grant that he/she will not leave this
organization and hence facilities are enough.
Another theory of organizational behavior,
where I totally agreed with Prof Satish Pandey was on the cleanliness of
toilets and the link to the organization’s values. Toilets talk volumes about a
house, a street, a place, a company according to me. You need to give people
good sanitation facilities. Better canteens, cleaner toilets should take prime
focus of managements.
Safety, should become heart of the organization. The focus
of safety has brought companies into MBA classes and people will love to work
for such organizations. The feeling that "You are safe with us" is the best
slogan any company can give to an employee. In this context I have heard
foreigners have heavy focus and Indians do it just because its another
compliance. No single employee should lose a single day of his life due to
unsafe work practices. But this should come from the top down as who should
bite the bullet is the head of company. Else none takes the pain to start
biting the bullet.
Enjoyed working on these two great management theories for
sometime in my plant. To pen down my thoughts and views and to hear from you on
the same will be great. Winding up the small post after a long time.
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