Gender Gap

There was a time when the gap between the genders was very big. Then came the time when everybody said that they were putting there the best of their efforts to remove this gap. Most of them got little success.

Who says that there is no Gender Gap in India. According to a recent survey done by World Economic Forum (WEF), there is a big corporate gender gap in the employment of woman in th entry level to the top management of the companies. This survey was based on the 60 of the top best 100 employers of India. Here are some of the results.

* Women employees held only 10 percent of the senior management positions in two-thirds of the surveyed companies.

* None of the companies had women chief executive officers (CEOs) and almost 40 percent of the respondents had only 10 percent women work force.

* The average annual income of a woman is $1,185, which is less than one-third of a man's $3,698, employed in Indian companies.


Do you think we are not having any Gender Gap in our country? Remember, if you cannot respect the work done by others, stop the operations of your company. The most preferable way to remove this type of gap will be to educate the men about the women empowerment.

Remember, a finished road is much better for a vehicle.

Monday leave

According to the recent study by the Bangalore-India consultancy firm Mercer, most of the leaves are being taken on mondays. Monday is the most common day for all the employees as 35% of the sample size of 11,000 employees take leave on mondays. They say that the reason for their leave was musculo-skeletal problems.

Cool enough. What I think about the reason behind monday leaves is lack of enjoyment. Many of the employees have their own families. Having holidays on weekends and after enjoying to the core of tiredness, it becomes very hard for the employees to start their day immediately with mondays. They take a monday leave and join back the company on tuesdays. This make them feel relaxed and be in a position to work with fresh minds.

What do you say?

IMS Approach

IMS = Its My Style

It is very common that a person asks another person to do a work. It does not matter how important that work is. It can be good for us, or cannot be. Lets call these works as ASSIGNMENT.

We all have been given lots of assignments to do, and believe me we all are capable enough to do those assignments. We do whatever we are asked to do. Yes, we only do whatever we are asked to do. This is very common in organizations, where the employees are given some or the other work very often. They do what they have to do. They don't have any freedom.

We have another term called COMMITMENT. A committed employee always do more than what he is asked to do. The employees are more hungry for freedom and recognition. If the employee is being given assignments with a power to do what he want, then definitely the result will be much much better.

"JUST ASK A PERSON TO DO SOMETHING, NEXT TIME HE WON't WORK FOR YOU"

Flowing accordingly

We all know the importance of INFORMATION, right? Information, often linked to communication, should always be perfect, perfect in respect of its flow between the people involved. It has different importance for different people.

The same information is needed to be communicated differently in different situations. The information, which when written 100% in the exam paper, can fetch "A" grade for us. But when we communicate the same 100% information to the employees, it shows reverse results. For better results, we should be able to communicate the 10% information in such a way so that they may understand the 100%.

We all should be able to analyse the situation before actually communicating any information, so that the results are more than our expectations.

COMMUNICATION LEAKAGE

People believe more on unidentified sources in comparison to the official source.

People generally don't believe whatever is being communicated to them from a known source. We can take a simple example of parents and their child. If someone comes at complains about the child to parents, then parents are more tend to believe them, even if the child is innocent. And if the parents trust their child a lot, then this would atleast create some kind of bugs in their mind.

But, why to take this thing in a negative way always? Lets make it a bit easier for us. Next time when you want anything to be communicated to a large number of people, just leak it to some person, and your job will become easier at no expense.

Even large organizations can use it when they have some important plans for the employees. What they have to do is just to leak some positive and real information about the plan, and their work is done.

"Communication skills when used in right way, can create wonders,
If you are not at all able to do that, be ready for the blunders."

Employee Poaching

Employee Poaching can simply be defined as going after the other company's employees. Though poaching is illegal, still many companies are practicing it. The reason being getting the finest of the employees. Google and Apple were not exceptions.

Few years back, these two giants decided to have a non-poaching agreement, where Google will not go after Apple's employees, and Vice-versa. This is not a written agreement and is considered non-official, but they implemented in such a way that the recruitment divisions of both the companies follow it.

The questions arises here is this that whether employee poaching is ethical or unethical? Well, as the ethics can be universally defined, so this will always be a question.

ETHICAL : There is an obvious points here, i.e., employees in this case will be a sandwich. The Google employee who want to work in Apple, will not be successful in the same, no matter how interested he is.

The other aspect can be the employee's right to free access to the market. Though poaching is beneficial for an organization, but it is not for an employee. The employee's KSA may be worth appreciation and a comparatively better job at a better place.

UNETHICAL : The current employee working on a important project has received a good offer for job from other company. The employee decided to leave the current organization for better opportunities. What will happen to the current organization in this case? Obviously, it can not have a immediate hire.



Solutions for Employee Poaching:

1. It is only due to this that organizations have started a BOND SIGNATURE rule, where a contract is being signed between the employee and the employer for a fixed period of time.

2. Including the non-compete clause in the employment contract.

3. Charging high amount if the employee breaks the contract.


There are many other solutions which varies from companies to companies, but the dilemma will always be there about the ethics question.

D-is-Comfort

TRAIN TRAVEL -- Wow!!!

I love to travel in train. Why? Well, the simple answer I am having is this that I get to learn a lot of things. Many of which seems nonsense, but in real terms it is worth.
Few days back, while travelling in a train, I came across a simple but complex thought. I was in an AC bougey. I thought of something(I really don't know what), and I decided to travelling standing for an hour. After that, I went to general bougey, and sat there for half an hour. Initially, it was so relaxing that I was feeling being in heaven.
After that, the hard wood showed its power and my heaven turned into hell(my bums started paining actually). I came back to my AC bougey. Again, after being there for 4-5 hours, I again got B.P.(Bum Pain).

During the whole travel I was continuously thinking, what really was going on? I came uo to a conclusion for that:

"NO MATTER HOW COMFORTABLE YOU ARE TODAY, IT WILL SOME DAY BE A DISCOMFORT"

Same thing happens in organisations too. Managers do think that the COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS which they are giving to their employees today will always keep them happy. But, someday they will get B.P..

But, hello!!!

A man in need of money will look for money today, if someday he will require non-monetary benefits that thing will not work here.