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Are young employees engaged?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:16:00 +0000

This refers the article published in Economic times in the editorial section on 24/2/2018 by well-known professionals Vikas Chaturvedi and Paresh Rajgariha on “Having a Working Relationship”. They have stated in their article that “India must build success stories in local workforces by aligning workers with, and involving workers in wealth creation by improving employee engagement.”

There is a serious issue of engagement found recently in many organizations. Some companies tend to hire people first and then search for work to be ascribed to them, while some companies hire people in bulk and when the project ends, they find them as a misfit in their current jobs. Thus, one reason for the lack of engagement in the employees comes from the lack of long term employee growth planning by businesses. In many such cases, employee planning is left to the Human Resource Department and businesses shy away from their responsibilities. Another reason where employee engagement is affected is due to the non-pay related incentives that a company offers. All the policies of the company are aligned to suit general horde and few policies are focused on employee engagement.

To increase employee engagement, organization should have a proper analysis of the age of the people in the organization and a feedback or a survey must be undertaken to understand the possible causes of lack of employee engagement. Then it is possible that one finds the root cause related to engagement. Though, the solution found out could solve problem of one organization but it will not be a panacea. Customization of solution on this front is needed. Employees who are more passionate about their skill development or entrepreneurship should be treated separately.

So how do we solve this problem when it comes to a specific case of youngsters?

One way to solve this problem is through upskilling. There is an urgent need of upskilling. In the recent forum “ET Business Summit – 2018” conducted in Bangalore, Courseera CEO, JEFF MAGGIONCALDA has stated that “The new world economy has a serious shortage of skilled workers. The ManpowerGroup expects that 40% of employers globally are finding it difficult to fill positions,” he said. “The gap between the rate at which technology is accelerating and the pace at which people are upskilling, is increasing.” Thus there is an urgent need to solve the issue of upskilling. The problem can also be addressed at the organization level rather than shifting it to the government. Latest skills such as those available on communication, language, software, marketing, analysis should be explored so that employees are geared up with the right skill set even before the need arises and they are ready to take up the challenges.

Secondly, companies should also encourage budding entrepreneurs among their employees. One way possible is to let them have their own business and the second one is to assign them with a company problem, checking the long the term viability and sustainability of the business and then allow them to begin the same. This would inculcate the more skills in them which would not be possible in regular course in an organization or through scheduled training programs. It is found that freshers from college who get recruited directly in companies, used to have a busy activity schedule (depending on the college they come from) and then when they join an organization, they find a gap. They do all the assigned tasks in a fraction of what their aged seniors do and then they are idle for the remaining part of the day. When this happens over time, they get disengaged. To those who are interested to explore a new career, entrepreneurship is the best option ( though some join organizations to help them for their higher education).

I believe these two ideas if explored could result in better engagement levels among the freshers who join the organizations.

The writer has twelve years of experience working with large organizations and has a MS and MBA (Marketing) degree. The opinions given on this blog are his personal views

Book review Chanakya in daily life

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:31:00 +0000

I've finished reading the book Chanakya in daily life and it's an amazing book for all those who continuously look for improvement in their lives.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 12 May 2017 17:37:00 +0000

What is Qubit

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 08 May 2017 09:10:00 +0000

Teleportation model in the quantum field. Excellent thought in putting across an argument to the renowned scientists in Quantum theory as to why one should stop pursuing studies of fine particles with just 3 degrees of freedom? Can the study be done for the particles tending to nth degree of freedom till infinity? Quest for the search of truth has started!!!!!!
Some research has already been done by some scientists like Roger Penrose, Max Tegmark, Nick Bostrom and Herbert Bernstein

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2017.1308361

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:20:00 +0000

There is a wonderful research paper which I have come across which describes how cortical areas in the human brain is helpful in studying the consciousness levels in humans.

The extension of Penrose- Hameroff Orch - OR theory has been extended to n-dimensional quantum states gives a hope to researchers for even higher mathematical abstraction in developing suitable models to study the human consciousness.

Reference link given below:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03081079.2015.1076405

Hyperlinks of Journal Papers :

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03081079.2011.602016

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03081079.2014.893298

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03081079.2015.1076405

NCSU

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:04:00 +0000

The Wood and Paper Science department at NC State is one of the best I have ever seen. As I do the distance education programme there, it offers to me a wide range of subjects to study and at the same time personal development is ensured. The faculty at NC state is the BEST!

I always suggest my junior colleagues to associate with such a good department and I hope that in near future as distance education mode gains importance, it shall more students doing the course online from India

reading 2 states

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:02:00 +0000

It a wonderful and amazing book by Chetan. It reminds me of my own stint in Tamilnadu when I went there. For sure its very difficult to get across the language and the culture there. If you are from North India, you better learn the culture there fast!A three and a half year stint there was filled of experience. I can really understand what Krish Malhotra might have gone through in TN where he dint knew the language and moreover the dropping of the sales of Citibank were blamed on him. That usually happens to the new comers in the business.I like the way Ananya and krish meet up, its kind of something that quite happens to each one of us in our lives at some point of time!

I am off to read the book again ( completed just half of it), could wait till I blog wat I have read!

Indian Olympics

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:10:00 +0000

I congratulate Abinav Bindra for his rare feet of achieving gold medal for India in the Beijing Olympics