Is your employer good?

Work occupies half or even a lot more of our time in a day (awake time that is!). Most people work for others (employers) putting in their best for the owners to earn a larger profit. However there could be moments when people would wonder, if the effort they are putting is worthy. Such fleeting thoughts are excusable; but if they recur on a daily basis, there’s got to be an organic problem – either in the individual or the organization’s fiber. And if a lot of people in the work place, who feel the same, it’s quite probable that there’s a problem with the management. When I was just pondering whether there are any practices of the companies that could reveal their traits

1. The companies that insist on depositing your educational certificates with them are real undemocratic ones that hope to curtail your freedom to move out, by restraint, rather than anything; good companies would retain talent by nourishing them and not threatening them!
2. Those that take decisions regarding the employer’s work nature /hours , without even having the courtesy to discuss with the concerned
3. Those who make their employers work on all days , without closing , thereby enjoying greater income, but without compensating the employees by any means
4. Those who don’t give their employees adequate leave as per the prescribed norms and show no mercy, even if they are sick
5. Those who talk to their employees without any respect / abuse them unnecessarily
6. Those who don’t realize the human resource potential of the trained staff, just believing money can get anything
7. Those who think and behave as if the customers / clients are the only assets of the institution , without looking from the staff point of you
8. Those who don’t delegate ,even to a tiny extent , trying to keep their fingers in all the activities, there by losing their own energy as well as robbing their staff’s independence
9. Those who keep a continuous tab over the staff, to the point of hindering the personal freedom as well as spoiling the positive vibes at the workplace
10. Those that expect you to shoulder extra responsibilities , at the same time not expecting any adequate compensations for that
11. Finally , the most important , those who don’t care to pay the salaries in the first couple of days to the staff, without realizing , how big a deal it is and how significant it is for a family!

The organizations doing all or most of these mistakes could be thriving at one point, making them falsely believe that whatever they do is correct. They forget that, life is a cycle, and don’t foresee that the downturn of the wheel of life will be rapid and steep, if they don’t take steps to prevent it. Government always turns a blind eye to these practices, by the private employers, never taking any proactive step. And the managements are quite shrewd in smaller organizations that they do not allow the staff to unite for their own cause. Even if they stood up, there’s the Hobson’s choice of quitting / being thrown out of the job!! I just wonder, why can’t there be any independent organization on the lines of ISO (9000 for quality assurance too the customers and 14000 for environmental management) that, these private fellows clamour to get to boost their image- why not an ISO for assessing the HR practice of the organization. I am damn sure this would be abhorred by any employer, because most don’t have it in them to subject themselves for such an examination in the present state of affairs. I shall only hope business men would be more scrupulous; but that is a far fetched expectation from them, I guess!!