to have no life outside the workplace.
Consider the energy that must be expended to shut out
the demands of family, personal health, and
other personal needs.
The 'workplace' need not mean just the physical
environment in which we work; but also the mental.
We do need to concentrate and be focused on the job
at hand: be it cleaning dishes or designing spacecraft
-- or anything else in between!
At what point does the focus become unbalanced?
How can the workplace be made holistic?
Employers have long realised that enhancing the physical environment
influences employee productivity.
Enlightened organisations have music, ergonomic use of
space, equipment, and work procedures, and also tertiary
conveniences like in-house canteens, rest areas or whatever.
Something more needs to be done. Employers ignore employee motivations
at their peril.
Is it surprising that surveys reveal a large number of youth today want to be independent when they grow up? "I don't want to work for anyone else."
Employers and employees: and the whole gap in-between of power struggles, differing perspectives, unmatched expectations, unvoiced positives and over-emphasized negatives.
Is this gap healthy? What happens in a crisis? When employees are laid off not because they under-performed but because the larger economies did, how can morale be maintained? Can organisations expect a high level of commitment if employees perceive the capricious nature of their job? Isn't the cost higher in laying off workers in hard times than in keeping them on and working together in keeping costs down? Both in human and monetary terms the cost seems higher in the long-term, and perhaps also in the short-term.
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�8 Aug 1998 Meenakshi Suri