Retaining the Work Force

According to Kelly Global Workforce Index, chances that Indian employees say they are happy or very happy in their current jobs are 66 in 100.  That means,  more than fifty per cent our work force  is satisfied in their job including working  environment.  India ranked 7 among 28 countries worldwide in terms of employee satisfaction.

Employees sincerely work for the organization which  provides them the most valuable employment offer.  Money, recognition, involvement, affiliation, career prospects etc,, are some of the factors on which organization can build employee satisfaction.   

How do we keep employees committed to the organization?  Of course, by continuous  stimulation.  Motivation is an important factor in keeping employees stimulated. Motivated employees will not usually leave their organisations for simple reasons.  In a  recent study in Gas Authority of India Ltd. it is observed  that  organisational motivation plays an important role in employee retention.

Some of the factors that motivate employees include :

Ø      Recognition

Ø      Financial Incentives

Ø      Co-operation of the Boss

Ø      Job Security

Ø      Peer relationship

Ø      Responsibility and Authority

Ø      Challenging job

New generation organizations use Self Managed Work Teams (SMWT) as a  successful motivational tool.  SMWTs usually result in the increased flexibility, reduction in response time, reduction in working process inventory, early detection of defects,  improved quality, and increased pride in workmanship.  Members of  SMWTs  have the autonomy to diagnose problems, collect required date, experiment with new ideas and implement their  own solutions.   Generally SMWTs are natural work units composed of five to fifteen people, which produce a whole product and  provides a complete service.  In other words each team is a small business unit into itself.  SMWTs  offer a feeling of recognition, peer relationship, responsibility and authority, and co-operation of the boss. No employee leaves an organization if he feels that he is important.

 Gleaming  into Chaos

What the city's inhabitants are allowed to do with the city?  A turbulent societal structure to attract world attention?

All persons who live in the city either permanently or in transit are citizens. 

We call Thiruvananthapuram as a city, and the people  who live here are citizens.  And our  citizens are privileged to wait at the Bus Stops, to drive their cars and bikes through the gutters and trenches, to throw away garbage indiscriminately at places of their own choice …. 

Remember, all the city’s inhabitants are not able to claim that it is their own city. Being the capital city, lot of people are migrated to the city from different parts of the State for employment. Those who  are able to find their livelihood are settled here as their second-home.  And recently workers from West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Orissa, etc  are seen migrating in bulk to Thiruvananathapuram.  A lot of construction work is going in and around the city, as part of development. We are becoming a metro, trying to compete with Bangaluru or Mumbai, in all its chaos.   

Every city is a mere locality, which accommodates nomads, travelers, strangers, visitors etc. We also are not an exception.  As in the case of other cities, Thiruvnanthapuram  has failed  from detaining the illegal immigrants. Thanks (?) to our cultural heritage, which boasts ‘athidhi devo bhava!’. 

During 2002 World Social Forum had sponsored a ‘Seminar for the Human Right to the City.’  And in  early 2003,  their contentions were documented entitled World Charter for the Human Right to the City.  According to the 2003 document, cities represent much more than physical space distinguished by a higher density of living space.  We agree that Thiruvananthapuram is becoming much more than a physical space distinguished by the higher density of population.  We need more chaos, disorder, turmoil, and anarchy  … To make our city equivalent to any advanced cities in the world, let us  reduce our mental spaces.