I have realized a relationship. The relationship, which many of those who have, crib for it, while those who doesn't have, seek for it. The relationship I talk of is of the employee and the organization or say the employee and the employer.
If I give a close analogy to this relationship then it would be relationship of a Dog and its master. Employee is The Dog (plz don't get offended) and employer is The Master. But we also have an interesting angle to this relationship which is The Dog Strap. Defining the dog strap in this context, can be said as the individual interest; the same interest which interests the employer to tie the employee & hold and interests the employee to get itself tied and remain held to it.
If you see a Dog, it does work depending on its master's choice. Some guard sheep, some guard houses, some help in animal hunting, some do sniffing job, some help in tracking, some used in sledging, there are some special dogs which are also used for show piece and companions, etc. The dogs job is well defined and the master trains the dog to its specific need and expects to perform as it desires. The master in-turn provide for the dog and take care of it. The relationship rests on mutual interest of give and take. But this ideal situation between master and dog is rarely seen working when it come to the employee and the employer. The reason is in all this give and take relationship of the dog and the master, there is one important tacit bond; the bond of Love and Affection. The dog works for its master whole heartedly not for the food but for the bond which they have build.
And in organizations, I feel, such bonds are the last point of attention. Though various programs are run for the welfare of the employee. But actually those are run to fare well the image of the organization in business world. To portray to the business community that the organization takes care of its work force. And this lip service attitude in this important area is the reason why the situation is mostly chaotic inside. The bond is missing because master is no where to be seen rather master has employed some middlemen to ensure dogs are train well and work well. Middlemen are the branch of the master tree and the new masters to the dogs; these middlemen are the manager. Not all Middlemen are bad, but most of them transform into task managers, due to their own insecurities and pressure from the organization and they overlook element of bond building. The middlemen's training is to perform their jobs well, makes them machine to follow codes and policies and they loose the inner charm (leadership) somewhere. The middlemen who were to become the master and hold strap in their hand rather become mechanical robots with strap tied to them.
The dog which employed its services to the master as Human gets restless and unsatisfied when it realizes that the master is actually a mechanical robot to which it is tied. And these robots are the once to make them work and perform. The dog attempts to take its pseudo master seriously, but with the motivation force missing, things don't happen the way they should be. This displeases the robot and displeased robots actions sow seed of distrust in the dog.
The unsatisfied dog bites the robot and pees on it. It is motivated by the thought that one day its bite will weaken the robot enough to make it fall on its knees. It continues to pee on it with a hope that one day its fluid waste will be acidic enough that it will corrode the robot and make it collapse. As time passes the dog realizes that the only thing it has done is damage it's own mouth by continuous metal bites and peeing has make its surrounding dirty. The already unsatisfied dog is frustrated now and displeased with the real master for having branched masters.
There are times when employees face such a situation at its work place. The acrimony between the heartless mechanical robot fails to understand dog while the foolish dog continues to damage itself.
After long the realization comes to the dog that the only thing which it can damage is the strap. That is something which it has power to control. The strap has two ends. The one end firmly held by the master and the master will never let it go unless circumstances like food scarcity (economic recession) comes, where it wishes to free most of the dogs. During food scarcity due to the deterrence of animal activist's protest, the masters only loosen the hold instead releasing dogs while they control dog's food supply and comfort to inspire it to leave on its own. The other end of the strap, is the end at the dog's side, it can bite and set itself free and look for other master with a hope that the new master would be good.
But in considerable number of times the dog find nothing different from what it was earlier. As it hop on, from one master to another, the circumstance seems changing but the ground reality remains the same. They keep coming to it as with the previous masters but in different forms. The dog always feel exploited, cheated and starts to blame the whole system.
? Is their no solution to beat this situation?
? Will the vicious circle never be broken for the suffering Dog?
Lets see...
-->If after continuous efforts situation is not changing, then probably some extra effort is needed. Not to strive for change but to strive looking for what element doesn't allow the change.
-->When after continuous highlighting the wrong, which you think done to you, is not stopping, then probably highlighting of the reason is needed to yourself, the reason which is making you the subject to the wrong doing.
-->When you can't change the system with all you might, turn that force inward and change yourself.
The obvious sympathy comes towards the Dog. It is the irony of the world that it will never help the one in trouble but does shed tears for it. So what dog gets is flood of tears which is a salt water, it can't even drink.
So is it the bad Masters who have continued to exploits its Dog from Pre-Industrial to Modern Era?
No! the problem is the mentality of the Dog, which has made it susceptible to all exploitation, which it complains of. The life never asks you to be a dog and take the comfort of the civilized world, it also gives chance to challenge the wild and be the master of your own. The question is why is that route rarely taken? Because it is not easy. It is not easy to forsake everything to reach that only one which you want, to be resilient to continuous failure, to continue striving against ones own apprehensions, to remain motivated in adversaries, to renounce all worldly pleasure that comes so quick if you chose to be dog and most important capable to walk alone on that chosen path.
It takes real guts to set oneself free. Before one realizes a dream to master a portion of jungle he get into the fierce fight to first establish the first step firmly. Moreover you are always exposed, you have to not only provide for yourself but also to other fellows who work for you. The responsibility increases and so does the pressure. The preparedness preaches you to establish yourself hard to face the unforeseen and you continue to tighten control on resources, and you bring in people to establish process and implement policies. You become strict and stringent in your own space. And while this process continues and with time when you turn to the fellows of your space you realize that you have become master and the follows transformed into the Dogs. You wanted to become master but you never wished to make your fellows into dog, but looks like the pattern has repeated but its just you are the one who is cursed and your men are the one who are bitten and peed upon this time.
The agony of being strapped dog comes with the protection from the master. Irrespective of how much the master is disliked, you know that masters will fight to provide you, they protect you from the direct exposure of the danger (market changes). But the change you can bring in here is at individual level. You are small.
But when you the master you are all exposed to danger, you are detested, bitten and peed upon, but you hold great powers to enforce change.
So now its your choice?
To Be a Master or continue Being A Dog!
But whatever you chose to become, blaming is not acceptable.
If I give a close analogy to this relationship then it would be relationship of a Dog and its master. Employee is The Dog (plz don't get offended) and employer is The Master. But we also have an interesting angle to this relationship which is The Dog Strap. Defining the dog strap in this context, can be said as the individual interest; the same interest which interests the employer to tie the employee & hold and interests the employee to get itself tied and remain held to it.
If you see a Dog, it does work depending on its master's choice. Some guard sheep, some guard houses, some help in animal hunting, some do sniffing job, some help in tracking, some used in sledging, there are some special dogs which are also used for show piece and companions, etc. The dogs job is well defined and the master trains the dog to its specific need and expects to perform as it desires. The master in-turn provide for the dog and take care of it. The relationship rests on mutual interest of give and take. But this ideal situation between master and dog is rarely seen working when it come to the employee and the employer. The reason is in all this give and take relationship of the dog and the master, there is one important tacit bond; the bond of Love and Affection. The dog works for its master whole heartedly not for the food but for the bond which they have build.
And in organizations, I feel, such bonds are the last point of attention. Though various programs are run for the welfare of the employee. But actually those are run to fare well the image of the organization in business world. To portray to the business community that the organization takes care of its work force. And this lip service attitude in this important area is the reason why the situation is mostly chaotic inside. The bond is missing because master is no where to be seen rather master has employed some middlemen to ensure dogs are train well and work well. Middlemen are the branch of the master tree and the new masters to the dogs; these middlemen are the manager. Not all Middlemen are bad, but most of them transform into task managers, due to their own insecurities and pressure from the organization and they overlook element of bond building. The middlemen's training is to perform their jobs well, makes them machine to follow codes and policies and they loose the inner charm (leadership) somewhere. The middlemen who were to become the master and hold strap in their hand rather become mechanical robots with strap tied to them.
The dog which employed its services to the master as Human gets restless and unsatisfied when it realizes that the master is actually a mechanical robot to which it is tied. And these robots are the once to make them work and perform. The dog attempts to take its pseudo master seriously, but with the motivation force missing, things don't happen the way they should be. This displeases the robot and displeased robots actions sow seed of distrust in the dog.
The unsatisfied dog bites the robot and pees on it. It is motivated by the thought that one day its bite will weaken the robot enough to make it fall on its knees. It continues to pee on it with a hope that one day its fluid waste will be acidic enough that it will corrode the robot and make it collapse. As time passes the dog realizes that the only thing it has done is damage it's own mouth by continuous metal bites and peeing has make its surrounding dirty. The already unsatisfied dog is frustrated now and displeased with the real master for having branched masters.
There are times when employees face such a situation at its work place. The acrimony between the heartless mechanical robot fails to understand dog while the foolish dog continues to damage itself.
After long the realization comes to the dog that the only thing which it can damage is the strap. That is something which it has power to control. The strap has two ends. The one end firmly held by the master and the master will never let it go unless circumstances like food scarcity (economic recession) comes, where it wishes to free most of the dogs. During food scarcity due to the deterrence of animal activist's protest, the masters only loosen the hold instead releasing dogs while they control dog's food supply and comfort to inspire it to leave on its own. The other end of the strap, is the end at the dog's side, it can bite and set itself free and look for other master with a hope that the new master would be good.
But in considerable number of times the dog find nothing different from what it was earlier. As it hop on, from one master to another, the circumstance seems changing but the ground reality remains the same. They keep coming to it as with the previous masters but in different forms. The dog always feel exploited, cheated and starts to blame the whole system.
? Is their no solution to beat this situation?
? Will the vicious circle never be broken for the suffering Dog?
Lets see...
-->If after continuous efforts situation is not changing, then probably some extra effort is needed. Not to strive for change but to strive looking for what element doesn't allow the change.
-->When after continuous highlighting the wrong, which you think done to you, is not stopping, then probably highlighting of the reason is needed to yourself, the reason which is making you the subject to the wrong doing.
-->When you can't change the system with all you might, turn that force inward and change yourself.
The obvious sympathy comes towards the Dog. It is the irony of the world that it will never help the one in trouble but does shed tears for it. So what dog gets is flood of tears which is a salt water, it can't even drink.
So is it the bad Masters who have continued to exploits its Dog from Pre-Industrial to Modern Era?
No! the problem is the mentality of the Dog, which has made it susceptible to all exploitation, which it complains of. The life never asks you to be a dog and take the comfort of the civilized world, it also gives chance to challenge the wild and be the master of your own. The question is why is that route rarely taken? Because it is not easy. It is not easy to forsake everything to reach that only one which you want, to be resilient to continuous failure, to continue striving against ones own apprehensions, to remain motivated in adversaries, to renounce all worldly pleasure that comes so quick if you chose to be dog and most important capable to walk alone on that chosen path.
It takes real guts to set oneself free. Before one realizes a dream to master a portion of jungle he get into the fierce fight to first establish the first step firmly. Moreover you are always exposed, you have to not only provide for yourself but also to other fellows who work for you. The responsibility increases and so does the pressure. The preparedness preaches you to establish yourself hard to face the unforeseen and you continue to tighten control on resources, and you bring in people to establish process and implement policies. You become strict and stringent in your own space. And while this process continues and with time when you turn to the fellows of your space you realize that you have become master and the follows transformed into the Dogs. You wanted to become master but you never wished to make your fellows into dog, but looks like the pattern has repeated but its just you are the one who is cursed and your men are the one who are bitten and peed upon this time.
The agony of being strapped dog comes with the protection from the master. Irrespective of how much the master is disliked, you know that masters will fight to provide you, they protect you from the direct exposure of the danger (market changes). But the change you can bring in here is at individual level. You are small.
But when you the master you are all exposed to danger, you are detested, bitten and peed upon, but you hold great powers to enforce change.
So now its your choice?
To Be a Master or continue Being A Dog!
But whatever you chose to become, blaming is not acceptable.
