It may appear funny that how flood can teach the HR about corporate governance and related......
Why do small canals and rivers break and cause flood during raining season. If one observes this natural occurrence, a strong corporate management lesson can be learned from the above. The holding capacity of the canals and rivers only when match with the volume and pressure of the water flows into them, smooth flow of the river and canal can be expected. If the volume of water is more than the holding capacity of the canal and river, they would break and the result would be flood. The flood does no good to anyone.
In the corporate world, people do have many problems that are purely related to the growth and business interest of the organization. The corporate hierarchy usually shifts such problems to others and tries to save their skin. In most instances, the seniors conveniently shift the problems onto the juniors and try to blame them for the above chaos. Unfortunately, they are actually allowing the problems to spread and grow.
At any stage, the speed of the problem has to be minimized only then a solution is possible to the problem. The corporate leaders should remember the fact of how floods are occurring in nature during rainy season. The top man in the hierarchy should bear the brunt first. If the heavy flow of rain water is passed through a small canal or river, naturally they would break and cause greater damage. The seniors should remember this fundamental truth.
If they pass the problems onto the juniors, they are only attempting to cause damage and not remedy or solution to the problem. When the stake of the corporate is high and the efforts & investments are based on some anticipation and expectation, failures do happen rarely. When a project fails, the top people in the hierarchy should take the responsibility first only then the gravity of the failure can be managed.
Seniors should be always kept close to the origin of the problem and only the dilutions of the problems should be allowed to reach the people below the order. Only when the ‘graded and gradual’ spread of the problems are facilitated, people coming together with ownership and spirit to work to resolve such problems can be achieved.
When the flow of water during rainy season is facilitate through a wide canal or a river, instead of destruction due to flood, richness and luxury of diverse life would occur. The even and gradual spread of water would make large area of soil wet and fertile.
It is not the problems that actually affects the corporate but only the lack of management insight and wisdom in managing the problems that affects the corporate ecosystem badly.
Whenever there is problem, most corporate employees love to disown the responsibility and try to pass the buck onto others. This behaviour is seen more with senior people. If these employees observe nature and think a while about how the flood is occurring during rainy season, they can learn the art of managing and resolving wide range of problems in the corporate world.
The HR function should learn several management insights from nature and must create its relevance and utility for the total and complete welfare of the corporate.
Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd.
Learn more from the management book – Jungle wisdom for corporate management – lessons from the university of nature by Swami Sukhabodhananda and Dr S Ranganathan
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