LATE SITTING IN BANKS - A BRIEF ANALYSIS – ( From Mr. V. Subramanian) It Needs To Be Eradicated. Late sitting in offices causes severest pain and discomfort not only to staff but also to to children and spouse of staff members who habitually or under compulsion sit late. Staff who are constrained to sit late on few occasions due to urgency of work is acceptable . But it is painful when staff who is number one flatterer or who are under fear of action sit late but who actually do not perform in proportion to late sitting hours in bank are harmful. Such lass of staff not only make their life miserable but also creates unwarranted guilty mind in those who do not like to sit late due to their attachment with their family and due to social obligation . Nobody likes to sit late at the office except occasionally. It’s more a forced choice rather than a voluntary action on the part of the persons concerned. Late sitting occurs because of the bad organizational climate and culture. Whoever wants to sit late in the office does so, only with a view to please his boss and earn his goodwill, but loses interest and faith in late sitting, in course of time. Another important fact is, such people do not make any significant contribution as is expected in the following areas: (a) Increasing the output (b) Clearing the backlog of work (c) Solving the organizational problems (d) Taking up certain specialized jobs or assignments that cannot be otherwise done during the regular office hours, because such jobs demand total concentration, uninterrupted functioning and special type of skills (e) Attending to certain confidential matters Evil effects of late sitting The anticipated benefits in the above-mentioned area are a mere management ploy to extract more time and energy – without matching qualitative output – from the persons concerned. By sitting late, neither the persons concerned nor their institution gain anything. In fact, both tend to lose heavily. From the employees’ side, they undergo tremendous strain and stress and whatever work they do or pretend to do after regular office hours leads to losing one’s morale and motivation. From the organizational point of view, on the face of it, it may appear that extra output has been achieved. But in reality, people’s efficiency gradually comes down during the day and at one point, it tapers off. People commit a lot of mistakes after doing hectic work for 8 continuous hours which has been the universally accepted time limit for a man day. If people are compelled to work beyond 8 hours a day and 42 hours a week, the consequences will be disastrous. 1. First, those who work for extra hours (beyond the prescribed work schedule) do not receive any worthwhile compensation and are blatantly cheated by their management. 2. Second, the people will pretend to work in the late hours, but really they will be wasting their time and precious resources of the institution. 3. The enhanced physical strain and psychological stress will reflect upon badly on the health and ability of the personnel. 4. Sensitive people will lose their self-confidence and it will hurt their ego and pride. 5. There is also a danger of their being branded as ‘slow, lazy, inefficient and obsolete’ by the management. It will affect their reputation and career progression. 6. Late sitting deprives a person of sleep for minimum duration, every day. 7. Late sitting results in accidents inside the office or outside, while on travel. 8. Only during the late hours, conspiracies are hatched, rumour mills are very active, vilification campaign is at its best, misinformation and canards are spread and frauds and malpractices are planned and perpetrated. 9. Working overtime deprives employment opportunities for the present generation youth. 10. Working for long, continuous hours make people very rigid and their behavior pattern also undergoes a change – from good to bad and bad to worse. 11. Those who work for extra hours, as proved by many empirical studies, devise their own compensation package and they try to recover the difference between the perceived ideal level and the actual level, through immoral and illegal ways. They indulge in all kinds of activities to the detriment of their parent organization. 12. At the macro level also, there is no value addition to the national economy, by asking people to work for long, continuous hours The managements, the trade unions, the industrial bodies/associations, the statutory regulator and the government shall together sit and find a suitable exit route for this evil practice to end over a period of time, say 2 or 3 years from now
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:54:36 +0000
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