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Some are fired silently some violently. Below is the case of violent sacking in the aviation-hospitality industry. However, no one talks of the silent sacking.
Silent sacking is done very creatively. It is part of a COO's Job Description to ensure that the earning rate per employee covers the employee's salary, company profit, infrastructure cost and taxes, etc. Seems a fair enough expectation. But it is not contextualized.
Context: Team productivity is ignored despite demand for team players. Now, a team productivity is the same as employee productivity multiplied by the number of players in a team. So, why is team productivity all that important in silent sacking. A bad manager may handle his team resources to the detriment of say a particular team member's capability and capacity. However, what would seem like a team success and an individual failure may in fact be a team success at the cost of an individual failure. A manager may seek presence of a team member beyond the member's productive hours. The manager needs to push the team member but not beyond the breaking point. This breaking point may infuse either under performance or revolt. Another issue is of respect. From my experience I have gathered that in today's off the shelf show-off life of the middle class and lower middle class neo-rich buggers, respecting one's fellow employees is not part of the game.
There used to be a time I had seen when the boss used to have a regular cup of tea with his team and joke about the way they (the boss while he was not a boss) used to mess up and how they used to get kicked for it. Each team member then would also share one's own experiences and also the present work place issues concerning the work at hand and of the anticipations for the future. There used to be a genuine camaraderie.
Fastforward to today. The only interaction is across the office desk, pub/bar, mall, cinema, etc. One would say what's the difference. There IS a difference. The difference lies in the adrenaline and testosterone driven pub/bar, mall, cinematic culture. Vengeful discussions, bullying, show-off of gagets and competition to outsmart the other team member to the latest gadget or the hottest movie or the coolest and most expensive drink or restaurant where he took out his hot girlfriend. Or the Tag Heuer, or that Rado and Armani. Upward mobility aspirations sold to us, who do not have it, by the marketing gurus of our times. the result is resentment, animosity and frustration.
To restart collaborative efforts rather than competitive efforts one has to curb materialistic negativities and shed State Craft (I have talked of earlier) and embrace a life of Honor. Stand for what is right and just. Do not stand for connaivance, convenience and deceit. Understand one's duties before one's rights ...
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Silent sacking is done very creatively. It is part of a COO's Job Description to ensure that the earning rate per employee covers the employee's salary, company profit, infrastructure cost and taxes, etc. Seems a fair enough expectation. But it is not contextualized.
Context: Team productivity is ignored despite demand for team players. Now, a team productivity is the same as employee productivity multiplied by the number of players in a team. So, why is team productivity all that important in silent sacking. A bad manager may handle his team resources to the detriment of say a particular team member's capability and capacity. However, what would seem like a team success and an individual failure may in fact be a team success at the cost of an individual failure. A manager may seek presence of a team member beyond the member's productive hours. The manager needs to push the team member but not beyond the breaking point. This breaking point may infuse either under performance or revolt. Another issue is of respect. From my experience I have gathered that in today's off the shelf show-off life of the middle class and lower middle class neo-rich buggers, respecting one's fellow employees is not part of the game.
There used to be a time I had seen when the boss used to have a regular cup of tea with his team and joke about the way they (the boss while he was not a boss) used to mess up and how they used to get kicked for it. Each team member then would also share one's own experiences and also the present work place issues concerning the work at hand and of the anticipations for the future. There used to be a genuine camaraderie.
Fastforward to today. The only interaction is across the office desk, pub/bar, mall, cinema, etc. One would say what's the difference. There IS a difference. The difference lies in the adrenaline and testosterone driven pub/bar, mall, cinematic culture. Vengeful discussions, bullying, show-off of gagets and competition to outsmart the other team member to the latest gadget or the hottest movie or the coolest and most expensive drink or restaurant where he took out his hot girlfriend. Or the Tag Heuer, or that Rado and Armani. Upward mobility aspirations sold to us, who do not have it, by the marketing gurus of our times. the result is resentment, animosity and frustration.
To restart collaborative efforts rather than competitive efforts one has to curb materialistic negativities and shed State Craft (I have talked of earlier) and embrace a life of Honor. Stand for what is right and just. Do not stand for connaivance, convenience and deceit. Understand one's duties before one's rights ...
References:
Air India 'to shed 15000 staff'
Kingfisher too may hand out pink slips
India's Jet Airways cuts 1900 jobs to 'save' itself
India's Jet Airways cuts 1900jobs to 'save' itself
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