Er Rational musings #36

Er Rational musings #36



Corporate Jugglery



It's very interesting to note how a typical Labour department of a private corporate house has moved to 'People's office'.



A Labour officer of yore is now called as a People's officer. Their main function of Recruiting right personnel of right profile for right job, remained same. Over the years, other activities like attendance, payroll, welfare, medical, training, development, conducting outbound programmes, arranging study tours, and other such functions were added to Human Resource Department! and most importantly, Appraisal of the employees/performance based rewards, remained most crucial, as far as employee is concerned.



A lot many Appraisal sysyems were used and are still being evolved. Basically, all were kept so confusing n complicated n cumbersome to make it most clash-some, as far as most of the general employee is concerned.



The PLR (Performance Linked Reward) or PLI (Performance Linked Incentive) or annual appraisal, became known as a modern Jugglery, made to push forward ONLY blue eyed boys of the bosses! These smart subordinates were rewarded for their uncanny ability of keeping the boss happy at the right time! Others equally toiled, made sincere efforts, were useful for the growth of the organization, and were entrusted more n more responsibility. But their folly? Not in Boss' good books. Hence, year after year these efficient, hard working but silent workaholics were cleverly kept on leash, using over-smart Appraisal systems!



So much so for the 'People's office' read HRD!!

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मिलिंद काळे, 27th September 2015