Right Attitude - Prerequisite for Recruitment |
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The best example
of an optimist I often quote is that of a man falling of from tenth floor
of a building waving all the while to his friends as he plummets to each
floor, to say that he was okay SO FAR! I call him a die-hard optimist. An
anecdote of the elephant and mynah endeavors to edify young aspirants or
the budding managers about the kind of attitude required by the employers.
Once there were two friends, a manyah and an elephant. One
day the elephant said to the mynah: "You know, I envy you .All my
life I wanted to fly I dreamt of what fun it would be to fly over the
village, the mountains, the seas, and to glide over the river and the
jungle. How I wish I could fly."
"No problem," said the mynah and reaching back with his beak
he pulled out a feather from his tail. That is what you must do here, take
this feather and hold it firmly in your trunk. Then flap your ears as hard
as you can, and you will fly."
The elephant did as he was told. He held the feather firmly in his
trunk flapped his ears as hard as he could, and lo and behold, he began to
fly. Holding on to the feather tightly, he flew over the river and the
vast jungle. After a long time, he glided back to earth and ran to meet
the mynah, guarding the feather carefully in his trunk.
"You changed my whole life", he told the mynah, "I
cannot thank you enough for this feather." "That feather"
said the mynah,"oh you didn't need that .It was just one of my old
ones. I just gave you something to BELIEVE in. It was flapping of your
ears that did it, not the feather in your trunk!"
The lesson one gains from the story is: We could achieve impossible, if
we have Vision (dream), Conviction (symbolically represented by the
feather) and Effort (flapping of ears) Success in any facet of endeavor,
is more deeply rooted in attitudes than aptitudes!..
The employer is seeking the passion to do impossible and the burning
desire to fulfill the dreams thereby meeting the targets .The budding
incumbents should have learning attitude and a burning aspiration to
accomplish. They should tend to love the deadlines and the targets given
to them. They should also be able to flap their ears in order to achieve
their goals. Yes, its true that the employer looks for the elephant with
flapping ears, i.e. who has got the dying drive and burning desire to
accomplish his targets or goals.
Attitude based questions, situational questions or case lets are the
tools the recruiters use to judge the existence of the criterion of
selection in the applicant's persona. Individuals who hold a positive,
hopeful, confident, good natured, kindly courageous mental attitude are
the persons who eventually radiates sunshine and gladness, good health and
cheer, confidence and happiness wherever they go.
Someone has rightly said, there are two types of people, some who bring
happiness WHEREVER they go, and some bring happiness WHENEVER they go!
With the right kind of attitude one should belong to the first category
and unwittingly would work as magnets attracting many friends, well
wishers and off course employer. Imbibe this secret of success and attract
everyone with your charm of optimism, visionary spirit, and
courageous endeavors. Make yourself employable forever with the enriched
spirit of right attitude and outshine with your grandeur wherever you go. |
Employees Empowerment: A key to intrinsic motivation |
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The organization has the responsibility to create a work environment
which helps foster the ability and desire of employees to act in empowered
ways. The work organization has the responsibility to remove barriers that
limit the ability of staff to act in empowered ways. Differentiating
empowerment with employee involvement and participative management.
These terms are sometimes used interchangeably but they differ a lot and
connote different meaning. Since empowerment in itself is a macro approach
and participative management and employees involvement are a part of this
approach.
Empowerment refers to a state of mind as well as a result of position,
policies, and practices or as defined by Bowan and Lawler it is a process
of sharing with front-line employees four organizational ingredients
knowledge, information, power and reward which makes the complete process
of empowerment a success or as defined by Menon it was defined as a
cognitive state of perceived control, perceived competence and goal
internalization.
In the, mechanistic approach managers and researchers believed that
empowerment was about delegating decision making within a set of clear
boundaries. Delegate responsibility and Hold people accountable for
results. In the, organic approach to empowerment researchers and managers
believed that it empowerment was about risk taking, growth, and change
understanding the needs of the employees model empowered behavior for the
employees build teams to encourage cooperative behavior; encourage
intelligent risk taking; and trust people to perform.
Empowered employees are, after all, more innovative, creative, and
resourceful. They are free from the shackles of management, so they are
happy and motivated at work and willing to take on new responsibilities.
Employee involvement means that every employee in an organization
is valuable and is having worth and is having involvement in running the
business empowerment means that management recognizes his
ability and provide employees with authority and tools
required to continuously improve the process
Essentials before implementing Empowerment process
1) Techniques / process for employee's empowerment
Certain questions for the management to understand are
–How to involve the people? How can we use teams to improve? How to
involve employees in quality improvement process?
Different techniques for employee's involvement include suggestion
systems, team, focus groups, surveys, self – directed work groups,
incentive program. Other methods involve – Steps in employee's empowerment Another successful strategy as used by Oral-B laboratories
which follow this cycle Looking > Seeing> Caring>
Doing
Management perspective: The employer's angle
Since empowerment is a two way process and involves equal
involvement of both employers perspective is very important .Since it is a
development strategy following principles are necessary to be essential - Management
should understand primary aim for the company, obstacles for employee's
productivity, sources of employee's motivation and knowing the empowerment
level of the employees.
Obstacle in implementing empowerment Companies have been forced to face the harsh reality that
management cannot bestow empowerment any more than it can bestow
self-esteem. Instead it must create an environment that allows employees
to become empowered on their own. |