People have appalauded the way the corporates have shaped up in the last half century,
while wars of great magnitudes have not really happened, and we live in the times of relative peace(now I who was born in 1986 have really not seen the former times, the only major violent movements that I have really encountered are the riots after Ayodhya, bombings by terrorists at places in the country, and lastly some uprisings here and there in the world, but have not really lived a fearful existence),slave oriented businesses have given way to much human oriented approach, where emloyees have a say in the governance and people as such have the power to decide their own fate. We have offices with the state of art furnitures, and policies which defy the security concerns of the employees. There is a need to appalaud the governments too, they have shown a proactive approach in tackling these money giants after centuries of imperial enslavement all over the world.
But I wonder where all this has really taken us, being an employee of a MNC myself. What i see around is that the appalause is for the photographs of people which symbolize a concern which really is not there, it symbolizes a modernity which still is but the surface of the feudal mindset, it symbolizes a tradition which leads the whole civilization to globalization, but deep within the inherent differences are the same, the whole situation, never really changed, all that ever changed were the masks that people wear.
In India(I am not much aware of the situation in the rest of the world) a college passout who is being picked up by the corporates for "campus" selection has to sign a bond with the organization, stating that he would pay such and such a sum if he leaves before "the stipulated time period", the compensation is mentioned but never the growth rate in the same, working conditions, or the work that a person would have to do. A year hence a person is in a position where he might not really get the adequate increment, as he deems justifyable for his efforts, nor would be satiated with the kind of work he is doing, but he cannot leave the organization because a bond is in place and he obviously is no position to pay the bond amount which ranges from 50,000 rs to 400000 rs. And there is no legal escape either because practically fighting a case against corporate giants would always let you in trouble, there is nothing that you can do about the state of Police and courts in this country.
A slavery of this kind has surely become a practice in the lucrative corporate sector(a bond in lieu of every training is the new theme) and the practices which range from employee satisfaction survey to best employer awards are nothing but a hoax call to cheat public as a whole and to bring in "talents" which are allowed to be easily wasted by creating situations in which the talents not only survive with great effort but sail through to become one of those devout corporates with arrogance of a local landlord.
A better economic order certainly demands minimum wastage or optimum ulitization of resources thereof. There is surely nothing more than the Human resource that any company has taking into consideration the dynamic nature of the resource and also application of true intelligence (our world is far away from its own imagination of building machines which can overtake humans in terms of common sense), and to be wasting it for simple computations and repetetive practices because a 'software' costs more is surely no way to build on a less wasteful enterprize. It might give way to a disinterested, much shattered, dissatisfied and wasteful, human being with a much more destructive mindset than necessary at any given time for a civilization.
while wars of great magnitudes have not really happened, and we live in the times of relative peace(now I who was born in 1986 have really not seen the former times, the only major violent movements that I have really encountered are the riots after Ayodhya, bombings by terrorists at places in the country, and lastly some uprisings here and there in the world, but have not really lived a fearful existence),slave oriented businesses have given way to much human oriented approach, where emloyees have a say in the governance and people as such have the power to decide their own fate. We have offices with the state of art furnitures, and policies which defy the security concerns of the employees. There is a need to appalaud the governments too, they have shown a proactive approach in tackling these money giants after centuries of imperial enslavement all over the world.
But I wonder where all this has really taken us, being an employee of a MNC myself. What i see around is that the appalause is for the photographs of people which symbolize a concern which really is not there, it symbolizes a modernity which still is but the surface of the feudal mindset, it symbolizes a tradition which leads the whole civilization to globalization, but deep within the inherent differences are the same, the whole situation, never really changed, all that ever changed were the masks that people wear.
In India(I am not much aware of the situation in the rest of the world) a college passout who is being picked up by the corporates for "campus" selection has to sign a bond with the organization, stating that he would pay such and such a sum if he leaves before "the stipulated time period", the compensation is mentioned but never the growth rate in the same, working conditions, or the work that a person would have to do. A year hence a person is in a position where he might not really get the adequate increment, as he deems justifyable for his efforts, nor would be satiated with the kind of work he is doing, but he cannot leave the organization because a bond is in place and he obviously is no position to pay the bond amount which ranges from 50,000 rs to 400000 rs. And there is no legal escape either because practically fighting a case against corporate giants would always let you in trouble, there is nothing that you can do about the state of Police and courts in this country.
A slavery of this kind has surely become a practice in the lucrative corporate sector(a bond in lieu of every training is the new theme) and the practices which range from employee satisfaction survey to best employer awards are nothing but a hoax call to cheat public as a whole and to bring in "talents" which are allowed to be easily wasted by creating situations in which the talents not only survive with great effort but sail through to become one of those devout corporates with arrogance of a local landlord.
A better economic order certainly demands minimum wastage or optimum ulitization of resources thereof. There is surely nothing more than the Human resource that any company has taking into consideration the dynamic nature of the resource and also application of true intelligence (our world is far away from its own imagination of building machines which can overtake humans in terms of common sense), and to be wasting it for simple computations and repetetive practices because a 'software' costs more is surely no way to build on a less wasteful enterprize. It might give way to a disinterested, much shattered, dissatisfied and wasteful, human being with a much more destructive mindset than necessary at any given time for a civilization.
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