Wage Revision Mission 2017
Dear Friends it is said in the Vedas that “work is work ship” but when this work ship become for unlimited time interval it become heptic for the officers. According to a handful of studies, consistently clocking over 40 hours a week just makes you productive. In the works. The ‘late sitting’ culture harms individuals officers, their families, the society and the nation and it must be curbed and eradicated, so that the country’s pride will go up.
As already stated, sitting late inside one’s office/factory does not help anyone. The employees must shed their false belief that sitting late will fetch them greater benefits like good placement, quick promotion etc. It is only an illusion. The time spent on working for extra hours can be utilized for more fruitful purposes like being with the family, sleeping well for minimum hours, daily commutation/travel and pursuing one’s hobbies and interests.
If one lives one’s life, by devoting adequate time for each important aspect of one’s life in an optimum way, the nation’s health and wealth will be safe, secure and growing. It will bring down the crime rate in the society and lead India to gaining a better score on the ‘Human Development Index’.
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 100 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, rumor 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 1 or 2 years from now. It is really surprising to note that when people talk of globalization and economic liberalization, no one talks about the best labour practices being adopted and put in place in the developed countries.
Any organization found to encourage late sitting as an integral part of organizational culture must be severely penalized. Such organizations may be told to set aside a part of their gross income/profit for social causes like laying roads, construction of schools and hospitals and meeting the cost of new projects for the supply of drinking water and power and also ordered to pay higher taxes to the government. But these people not encourage those organizations which exploit their manpower by forcing them to sit late almost on a regular basis. The loss of jobs due to this ugly phenomenon must be suitably highlighted and a nation-wide awareness campaign must be conducted by the media on a sustaining basis.
Working hours are already fixed as per existing laws of the states and the country as a whole for all employees including officers of bank. Not only daily working hours, but even weekly working hours are fixed for all workers in organized sector and Labour Department has been established as per State rule in all districts to ensure it compliance in true spirit. Ministry of Labour Welfare is also in function under central and state rules.
None of staff has courage to protest it and none of union leaders will dare talk on this issue of late sitting or culture of working on Holidays. There may be some exceptions like CBOA where our beloved General Secretary Shri Mani Maran GV always supporting the officers to go on the time from the offices.
In CBOA Think Tank Enclave every meeting even every seminar our Beloved GS told Go on time, Don’t sit after 5 PM , but by and large majority of Union leaders turn blind eye when any staff talk of late sitting .Rather Union leaders now advocate to remain in tune with local bosses to avoid critical and frequent transfers and to avoid rejection in promotion processes. 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.
So my dear Friends By the way of think tank it is our request to the working officers that kindly try to leave the office on time. CBOA committed for the regulated working hours for the officers. CBOA Think Tank first of all demanded regulated working hours for the officers to improve the productivity of the officers and also improve the business of the banks for the long terms uses of officers by this way. Our CBOA members regarding any problems in this regards can contacts to the Our Beloved GS, Krishna Kumar Sir, Jagdeeshan Sir, Anand Sir and Ravi Sir and the Respective R S of the Circles. So Friends Lets Starts to implements Regulated Working hour’s conditions.
CBOA JINDABAD
MANI MARAN SIR JINDABAD
Dileep Kumar PO Tiruvannamalai
LATE SITTING IN BANKS - A BRIEF ANALYSIS - It Needs To Be Eradicated-
By V Subramanian
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.
What shall be done to prevent/end this abhorring practice of late sitting?
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. It is really surprising to note that when people talk of globalization and economic liberalization, no one talks about the best labour practices being adopted and put in place in the developed countries. Any organization found to encourage late sitting as an integral part of organizational culture must be severely penalized. Such organizations may be told to set aside a part of their gross income/profit for social causes like laying roads, construction of schools and hospitals and meeting the cost of new projects for the supply of drinking water and power and also ordered to pay higher taxes to the government.
The media also shall play its role more responsibly in this matter. They shall not encourage those organizations which exploit their manpower by forcing them to sit late almost on a regular basis. The loss of jobs due to this ugly phenomenon must be suitably highlighted and a nation-wide awareness campaign must be conducted by the media on a sustaining basis.
Conclusion
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Late Sitting Only Lead TO Success in Banks?
This excellent write up from Mr. Pannvalan actually, does the same in the following lines:
‘1. Increasing the organizational output
It is only a myth that late sitting results in added output. It may result in 20% additional output, but it will be often accompanied by the following ill effects.
(a) Employees’ dissatisfaction and displeasure, though not openly expressed, will be on the rise.
(b) Deterioration in the employees’ health will affect the individuals, their families and theorganization in equal measure.
(c) Deprivation/Willful neglect of the interests, health and welfare of other members of the employees’ families will create anguish and it will make them turn their wrath on theorganization.
(d) Reduction in the longevity/ life span of the employees is a sure sign of organizationaldegradation.
(e) Increase in wastages, rejections and accidents, the import of which far outweigh thebenefits accruing from making the employees work for extra hours. Before it is realized,it will be too late.
(f) Because of late sitting, people will tend to utilize full quota of their legitimate leave. It will result in an undesirable situation where some percentage of staff will always remainabsent (not necessarily the same group of people), even on unreasonable grounds.
(g) People who sit late will develop a tendency to come late to the office, the following day.
(h) During the late hours, because of lack of concentration, several mistakes may occur and some small and silly jobs may consume enormous time as compared to the time taken for completion of the same jobs during regular office hours.
(i) For the mistakes committed in the late hours, the employees will be unnecessarily charge-sheeted and punished. It will shatter the morale of the whole group.
(j) Group dynamics will be very active during late hours and it will always be counter-productive and harmful.
(k) Many illegal and immoral acts will be planned and perpetrated, that will lead everyone to landing in deep trouble.
(l) Loyalty of the employees will be greatly affected and their sense of belongingness willlose its strength, honesty and truthfulness.
2. Clearing the backlog of work
If people know in advance that they will be required to work for extra hours, they will show disinterest in working at the regular pace and they may try to defer/postpone some of their routine work for doing it in the late hours. Thus there will not be any additional output from them on that day.
Clearing the backlog in a particular area/section cannot prevent backlog in some other area arising afresh. So, after some time, this argument of ‘clearing the backlog’ to make people work for additional hours will look silly and unacceptable. Therefore, the reasons advanced by the management will be less convincing and will not stand any legal scrutiny.
Without addressing the real cause of backlog i.e. shortage of staff, the management cannot hope to achieve anything, by forcing its staff to work for additional hours, that too without any worthwhile compensation in return.
3. Solving the organizational problems
Modern management experts will not agree that working for extra hours will solve all organizational problems. They will in fact tell the management that working outside office hours will create new and hitherto unknown problems and hence advise against late sitting.
As we all know, 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.
Bribery – both offering and demanding of bribes – takes place only during late hours.
People will not hesitate to work against the very same organization that asked them to stay late for some pressing, urgent work, if it becomes a regular feature of one’s service condition.
The budding youth are greatly disappointed on seeing the true picture of HRD in public sector banks. They lose their interest and intention to continue in the same bank. The high attrition rate witnessed in most of the public sector banks today is one of the direct consequences of thrusting the late sitting culture on them. Many sincere, honest and talented employees quit and join the rival organizations, at the earliest available opportunity.
4. Taking up certain specialized jobs or assignments
It is often argued that certain jobs cannot be otherwise taken up and completed during the regular office hours, because such jobs call for total concentration, uninterrupted functioning and special type of skills. It is quite true. But, for handling such special and critical assignments, the management must hire additional people with specialized talent. Alternatively, the management may identify some of the existing employees with the required knowledge and skill sets and draft them for such specialized jobs or assignments. Without resorting to either of these, asking all or most of the employees to sit late and attend to special duties will be irrational, unfair and unjust. It only displays the feudal mindset and directionless behavior of the management.
5. Attending to certain confidential matters
When openness and transparency are the watchwords of modern management, the importance attached to confidentiality is somewhat perplexing in today’s world. The element of secrecy and confidentiality in many routine matters will give rise to rumours – harmful rumours - and the grapevine will have a field day.
Scandals and libels can also be noticed here and there. But there will be no one to confirm or deny the veracity of their contents.
Such being the case, working after office hours to attend to certain confidential matters is bereft of any legal validity and moral claims.
It must be the endeavor of the management to attend to all matters and issues during the regular office hours. Else, it will be construed as a failure on its part.
Certain critical, volatile and sensitive issues can be handled by a select group of people during the course of business itself. So, late sitting is not needed for such jobs.
Conclusion
We have demolished here all the myths and fallacies surrounding ‘late sitting’ in offices. No organization worth its name can today make ‘late sitting’ as an integral part of its work culture. Any forward looking and progressive organization will not venture to do that. If some organizations still retain late sitting practice in their day to day functions, it only goes to show how ignorant and outdated they are. Late sitting is a self-deceiving tool and self-defeating strategy. What else one can say?
The Branch Administrators, the untrained Executives of various levels in PSBs must be made aware of the importance of Time : Productivity : Good Health : Peace in Family. Incentives, prizes etc, would take away the charm in an Officer's life if he/she succumbs to CHASING. Let us live our life first in it's true spirit.
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