The corporate employees must understand the dangerous side effects of the luxury and ....
The world statistics on ‘dog bite’ states that the chained dogs are three times more prone to attack man than the stray canines. What does the above finding conveys to the men in corporate? The modern corporate must understand the above question and its answer certainly from the perspective HR management/function.
Why should the chained dogs bite man more than the unchained one. The reason needs to be derived from two separate angles. The stray dogs cannot afford to attack man frequently as it may prove disastrous to its very survival and existence. Only when the stray dogs learn to co-exist with humans, accept and endure the human dominance and domination, it can survive.
On the contrary, the chained dogs get all comfort from its master and it never has the compulsion of accepting and adjusting to anyone other than its master. It lacks the art of dealing with man and hence it attack people who are strangers.
The stray dogs carry the mindset of how to survive successfully while the chained dogs carry the mindset of suspicion and fear. The former enjoys the freedom not luxury while the later has luxury but no freedom.
Most corporate give all luxury and comfort to its employees but never give freedom either at the doing level or even at the thinking level. The corporate will be of the opinion that when all luxury and comfort is given, naturally the ‘class’ leadership is possible in people. But the people in such environment loose their natural and original instincts and become like an attacking and biting chained dogs.
Corporate people are chained by the job definition, task orientation and deadlines to meet. The point is not against having a clear role definition and task to achieve when one is working in the organization. Without compulsion, commitment won’t come and without commitment achievements are not going to be possible.
The people should be made to perform and operate their task in the space of freedom. Only when the freedom is given, the natural instinct will flow from them and the leadership quality of people can blossom.
Give freedom and space and necessitate people to perform or perish. Let the choice be set in free air.
Besides attacking, the chained dogs do not know how to survive in the free atmosphere. This is how the most corporate employees are today. They could perform well only within the same organization and never able to prove their mantle outside the four walls of the corporate. The reasons are
Generally it is believed that the corporate employees are more cultured than the people who are working in a grocery shop. The truth is that the most corporate employees are as brute as ‘Brutes’. They are like chained dogs, carry nothing but fear and suspicion. The stray dogs do have fear, but their art of accepting and enduring ability help them to overpower their fear. Natural talents can be seen only in stray dongs but the chained dogs display only what is trained or taught to it.
Give sufficient freedom and space to your people while assigning task and timelines, only then, the best performance can be flow from them. Chained dogs and stray dogs convey only this message to 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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