tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70065210031635107852024-03-13T20:49:36.604+05:30ExposantBlog on Corporate Culture, Leadership, Office Bullying, Resource Management and Social Issuesসায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-71865479489488965202023-04-17T15:48:00.006+05:302023-04-17T16:13:32.373+05:30Formal and Informal Learning: Why a balance between the two is required in a workplace?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsU-q6AXO75YYa9Z9mZhCVEL9z1yw5qTtOumMG65MY86RsBuaO_XfheNTvpQMzLfQHNsl0fdPE9bzJJ-wXBl6pV58NgBmTyjtL82-iEpEKE-AepQVMhqweRDEJ9llHu4GYOeXB9JLIs3qgVZjftCD2CPugXquKQ7fpZEx24QNwSDhqHoFHcY8w2DcuA/s1068/Formal%20Informal%20Learning%20in%20Workplace.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1068" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsU-q6AXO75YYa9Z9mZhCVEL9z1yw5qTtOumMG65MY86RsBuaO_XfheNTvpQMzLfQHNsl0fdPE9bzJJ-wXBl6pV58NgBmTyjtL82-iEpEKE-AepQVMhqweRDEJ9llHu4GYOeXB9JLIs3qgVZjftCD2CPugXquKQ7fpZEx24QNwSDhqHoFHcY8w2DcuA/w640-h426/Formal%20Informal%20Learning%20in%20Workplace.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Learning, as we all know, is part of life. The workplace is considered a legitimate environment for learning new skills and gaining knowledge that enhances an employee’s morale and encourages their participation in work-related activities. One can even say that work and learning are synonymous as when employees invest time in work activities their experiences accumulate. They get a better understanding of their role in the organization and its importance. In today’s fast-moving corporate environment, learning new skills and honing pre-existing capabilities is essential, and without the right tools, an employee may fall behind. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Corporate employees must continuously modify and update their working habits to sustain competitive advantage, remain employable and perform well. To help employees establish themselves better in the work environment and boost performance, companies come up with various opportunities and provide learning platforms. Through these opportunities, employees integrate the skills and qualities that are required for the particular line of work, which in turn, help them achieve their individual goals as well as the collective goal of their work faster and more efficiently. Another advantage of learning new skills at the workplace is that it makes it easier for employees to manage change, perform well and bring work satisfaction.</p><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Types of learning</span></h2><div><div style="text-align: justify;">An archer is doomed to fail without the appropriate amount of arrows in their quiver. Just like that, if an employee doesn’t keep on learning and picking up new skills in the workplace, he gets further and further away from realizing their professional goals and might get frustrated with their job. The importance of learning is gradually increasing in a highly global and interconnected world. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hence, there is a need to push individuals to continue to learn to increase productivity and upgrade their employability skills. However, everyone has a different style and pace of learning. Therefore, to provide our employees with the best possible options, we must first evaluate different types of learning styles. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ones that make the top of the list are as follows:</div></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Formal Learning in the Workplace</span></h3><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Formal learning is presentational education. It encompasses a structured model that presents a rigid curriculum, corresponding to laws and norms. It is done by a training-based organization and/or workplace, via mobile devices, classrooms, internet courses, and e-learning portals. It is explicitly designed as education regarding time, objectives and resources. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Learning outcomes are determined by assessments and tests. Since formal learning follows a structure and therefore allows learners to track and measure their progress. It also allows learners and training organizations to understand whether or not they are meeting training goals. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Examples of formal learning include face-to-face classroom lectures, e-learning courses, workshops, seminars and webinars. Formal learning is used when there is a need to have control over the learning experience of learners, as learners follow a planned and rigid curriculum. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are matters in the workplace that needs to be learnt in a proper and standard format, like compliance training, or mandatory training periods for navigating through the new company software.</div></div><div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Advantages of Formal Learning</span></h4></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">Visible and measurable improvement in employee performance.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Formal training helps establish a baseline of knowledge and skills because everyone is receiving an equal amount of structured training and gaining the knowledge they need.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">It is easier to keep a track of skills and knowledge gained through formal learning set-ups. An organized record of what training is provided, by whom, and the results achieved can be maintained.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Formal learning involves face-to-face interactions, where learners are provided with opportunities to bring forth their issues and doubts in a classroom-like setting, hence helping greatly to nullify any sort of personal apprehensions by employees involved.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Formal learning opportunities can also be made available through an online medium where employee training software can be implemented. This way companies can make sure their employees get the required training no matter the time and distance. </li></ol><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Disadvantages of Formal Learning</span></h4></div><div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">It is costly and rigid.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">An unprofessional and non-standard training system may cause a waste of time and money and leave all parties involved unsatisfied with the outcome.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Some employees might not be so keen on gaining knowledge through such a medium. As such, undisciplined employees who are made to attend such sessions out of necessity may intentionally or unintentionally spoil the mood of everyone involved and cause unnecessary issues for trainers.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">From a psychological point of view, employees might get nostalgic whiplashes of their time in schools and colleges. This might be a double-edged sword. While some employees might like the experience of remembering their good old days, for others it might be uncomfortable. Especially if they had a bunch of bad experiences in their education life. </li></ol></div></div><div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Informal Learning in the Workplace</span></h3></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Informal learning goes on outside of a traditional formal learning environment. It is all about acquiring skills, attitudes, and knowledge through daily interactions at work, play and media influences. This learning platform encompasses a range of activities like during internship or on-job-trainings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, informal learning goes on in our daily life. They are intentional and often easy learning projects undertaken by us to teach ourselves. It often helps to enhance our skills and broadens the horizon of our pre-existing knowledge. Informal learning occurs whenever people have the need, motivation or opportunity for learning.</div></div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Advantages of Informal Learning</span></h4><div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">It is spontaneous and can happen any time the learner sees something that piques their curiosity or will add value to their job.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Informal learning allows employees to satisfy their curiosity. It helps them to improve their existing knowledge, pick up new techniques, or hone an existing skill.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">It reflects an employee’s willingness to learn and dedication to their professional goals. An employee who invests time and energy in informal learning is typically an individual who is goal-oriented and is always on the lookout to explore, experiment, and learn.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">It is relatively cheaper as informal learning need not happen from structured content alone. It can happen any time during the day including interactions with colleagues, seniors, or coaches.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The learning experience is more fulfilling for the employees as adult learners want autonomy and control. With informal learning, employees are in full control of what they are exploring and learning.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Learning can begin without any significant plan since nowadays almost everybody has access to so much information online that can be used to continuously acquire information.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Employees find it easier to dive into and sustain the momentum with informal learning as there is no pressure of having to attend training sessions, clear a test, get a decent score, and perform in a classroom-like setting that often gives one nostalgic whiplash of their time in schools and colleges.</li></ol></div></div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Disadvantages of Informal Learning</span></h4><div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">One major issue with informal training is a greater potential for oversight or errors. This may lead to an employee being put into a situation with a client or customer or projects that they are unprepared for, which in turn can have negative consequences on business relationships and employee morale.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Employees will likely have more questions with informal training because they recognize gaps in the training and want to feel comfortable in their ability to do their jobs effectively. Seniors and managers, being busy with their duties, may not be able to help as much as they want. As such, an employee is bound to screw up the first few times. This lack of desired results due to inefficiency in the field will be greatly demotivating.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Consistent informal training can contribute to a negative work culture and low employee morale as employees will feel as though the organisation has no interest in their growth and performance and/or lacks resources to provide proper training. </li></ol></div></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Points to keep in mind while engaging in different types of Learning Methods</span></h3><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Learning occurs as part of everyday experiences and participation. The importance of constantly picking up new skills and learning different methods of getting the job done for an employee in the organization is nothing new. That being said, when it comes to initiatives taken by the firm itself one must keep in mind the different types of learning methods and their advantages and disadvantages. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="text-align: justify;">First and foremost is to recognize that corporate learning and development focus on facilitating change to improve employee job performance. As such, both formal and informal learning should complement each other to support learning and maximise effectiveness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">Secondly, both formal and informal learning patterns offer different values in the lives of learners. The choice between the two comes down to the objectives and intent of the learners.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></li><li><div style="text-align: justify;">Third, learning involves both action and reflection. It means looking back on what we have done, measuring it against what we wanted to achieve, and assessing the consequences. Therefore it is vital to recognize and identify informal learning experiences in the workplace as much as emphasizing formal learning and creating the required environment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fourth, it is important to keep in mind that every training activity – may it be formal, informal or a blend of both – must be in support of the goals of the organization. These learning opportunities must do more than just entertain the employees.</li></ol></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Need for balance between formal and informal learning</span></h3></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">The blended approach to learning allows allowing employees to feel comfortable in their workplace. It should also be recognized that corporate learning and development focus on facilitating change to improve employee job performance. Hence, certain criteria are required to be integrated as the primary aim before designing training content and choosing a suitable method.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Formal learning plays an integral part in nurturing the performance support network in any organisation. As such, informal learning must act as an additional layer of support to improve performance. Opportunities for both must be provided and highlighted by the companies. Employees must have the choice to learn new skills and integrate them into their working habits in a safe environment first so as not to lose confidence when they are thrown directly to the sharks. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Corporate training has to engage employees with interesting and useful training content and design. At the same time, adding everyday learning aspects allows employees to practice securely and more precisely. They absorb information and then try and fail under supervision. This eliminates the fear of major screw-ups.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: large;" size="5">Author Bio:</font></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/s510/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="458" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/w179-h200/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" width="179" /></a></div><br />Name: Shalinee Banerjee<p></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">A 27-year-old writer from the small town of Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India, pursuing Masters in Arts (English Literature) and has a passion for storytelling. Currently working on honing my skills as a novel writer and working on my first book, the title undisclosed at the moment. Loves reading and gaining knowledge and developing content based on my unique perspective of all the latest happenings around the</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">world.</p></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-81561166830333935872023-01-16T12:22:00.002+05:302023-04-17T15:50:29.965+05:30Employer Giving - An Amazing Way Corporates Show they really Care for the Society<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixxo5V7dd7DvpmbVEjQGgFVh4rSUKlKyINcCgYUGGrhf4t3iv_5AoJN4ZqzCwL6kHUzDSRK9BYxnCs7favD0Gg7wIiqwj4IayyGvzq-kvwaQ1sgfOBYdq3xSkljU4z-7QZFP3Qc5Bn59TDWQPGl8BB-pgVABHq71bSyAnuxza8hBgZ-HmcHLbjHyKc0Q/s6016/closeup-man-holding-gift-box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixxo5V7dd7DvpmbVEjQGgFVh4rSUKlKyINcCgYUGGrhf4t3iv_5AoJN4ZqzCwL6kHUzDSRK9BYxnCs7favD0Gg7wIiqwj4IayyGvzq-kvwaQ1sgfOBYdq3xSkljU4z-7QZFP3Qc5Bn59TDWQPGl8BB-pgVABHq71bSyAnuxza8hBgZ-HmcHLbjHyKc0Q/w400-h268/closeup-man-holding-gift-box.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;">Corporate philanthropy programmes, also known as, Employer giving programmes, are opportunities provided by companies to engage their employees in small acts of kindness that can contribute to major social or environmental changes.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">What is Employer Giving?</span></h2><p style="text-align: justify;">In simple words, employer giving is the donations made by a company and its employees to non-profit organizations. Many of the world’s top companies have a workplace giving program through which they support nonprofits and engage with their local communities.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">An employer-giving program can involve making tax-deductible donations to nonprofits and providing funding for volunteer grants. Providing opportunities to participate in philanthropic activities makes employees happier and proud of the organization they are working for. Non-profit organizations and charities benefit as well from having more resources. The company itself gets a chance to make a positive impact on the community. The more a firm’s employees are participating in these programmes, the greater the outcome for everyone involved.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, while many of these programmes have willing participants, sometimes getting employees to take action and volunteer in employer-giving programmes can be a little difficult. Especially if the firm is at the beginning stages, or the employees are relatively new. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Creating an effective employer-giving program can be a bit challenging. So whether your firm is new in the field of employer-giving programmes, or you have some experience under your belt, some tools and tips are mentioned here in this article that might help you along the way in creating employer-giving programmes. </p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Benefits of Employer Giving</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to lending a helping hand to a good cause, employer-giving programmes also benefit the company and its employees. It can be a great way to make your employees feel proud of the company they are working for and reduce employee turnover. Engaging your workforce in these programmes brings major tangible advantages to both the company and the charities to which you are contributing. </p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Win-Win for the workplace and charities</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Non-profit organizations and charities benefit from employer-giving programmes organized by companies. They get regular financial support, volunteers and sponsorship. It is a good opportunity for charitable programmes to secure strong partnerships.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, employers see an increase in productivity and a sense of satisfaction in their employees. It is believed that the joy of giving lasts longer than the joy of receiving because the act of giving back to the community is associated with chemical changes in the mind and body called Helper’s High.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Helper’s High is a dopamine-induced physical sensation usually experienced after an act of giving and validated by research. It is known to carry big-time advantages as it makes us feel happier, calmer, physically healthier and less stressed. A good employer wants their employees to be in this exact state of mind.</p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Increase in employee engagement</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Employees expect more from their employers than ever before. Employees look for employer-giving programs they can join when they check their job description as according to them opportunities to support causes and issues they care about are just as important as wellness programs or tuition reimbursements. Charitable programmes that a firm engages their employees in say much about the work culture in that firm. Millennials and Gen-Z, in particular, are expecting certain benefits when starting at a company and a giving program is on that list.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It makes prospective employees happy when they find an employer who expresses their culture through corporate social responsibility. Therefore, offering giving programmes for employees will ensure that your company is prepared for the top talent of the future.</p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Building a Reputation</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s beneficial to spend some time working on your brand image. Employer-giving programmes help in building a positive reputation in the market. Fundraising and providing resources for employees can help your business greatly. It works wonders for how people view you as an employer. Participating in social events for a worthy cause helps in building trust among the general public. Many customers appreciate companies that contribute to the good of society. It also helps attract both potential clients and employees in the long run. </p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Different Types of Employer Giving</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Leading companies in recent years have come up with many strategies to encourage employees' participation in workplace giving initiatives. Some of these are listed below:</p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Donation Matching</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Companies encourage employees' participation in workplace giving programmes is donation matching. People will want to make donations to a worthy cause but may feel a bit hesitant. To encourage monetary donations by employees, the employer matches the donations contributed by the employee. This is called employee donation matching. It has also been observed that when an employer provides a matching gift, it creates a larger impact for the recipient nonprofits as more and more people show a willingness to participate in such programmes and gain recognition.</p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Gifts or in-kind donation</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Charitable giving doesn’t always need to be about donating money. Everyone can’t give away large sums of money for social causes. One way to encourage employees to give gifts or in-kind donations is by organizing “Donation Days” where employees can give away their old possession to people in need helps in de-cluttering their homes, and they can leave the office with a light heart knowing they have helped someone in need. There are some charitable organizations out there that would benefit more from material possessions such as food, clothing, medicinal supplies, sanitation products etc. </p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Employee Volunteering Grants</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Employee grants are the best way to encourage employees to participate in a charitable cause. Volunteers are always welcome in non-profit organizations that need a few extra hands. Companies provide volunteers that want to do social work independently because they don’t have the timetable to line up with group organized activities. In this type of employer-giving initiative, employees receive a financial grant depending on the number of hours they’ve committed to their chosen cause. The additional monetary incentive alongside the feeling of fulfilment for helping the community works as a great motivator for employees to participate.</p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">How to set up a workplace-giving program</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">There are numerous ways employers can organize employer-giving programmes or events. Some are mentioned below:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>Tie up with NGOs and organizations with whom you can partner for programs around the year. </li><li>Communicate the program and opportunity</li><li>Make room in your workflow calendar to accommodate these activities. Allow employees some time off their schedule to engage in them.</li><li>Design a micro-site or platform dedicated to engaging employees around the theme.</li><li>Create cheerleaders and ambassadors to steer the initiative. Let them spread the vibe – not just internally but externally on social networks as well.</li><li>Plan community activities and volunteer opportunities for your employees</li><li>Focus the giving programme’s activities around kindness, gratitude, and generosity.</li></ul><p></p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Important points to remember about Employer Giving</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">To establish themselves in the “giving culture”, employers at first and foremost need to connect with the spirit of corporate philanthropy by embracing the “giving nature” in its many forms and avatars. Companies need to show their willingness to help others in need through their actions, both to the general people and their employees. The best way to do this is by leading by example because after all, charity starts at home – or in this case – the office.</p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Recognition to those who care</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">It is important to applaud the intent and effort of your employees at every step for participating in a charitable cause. It encourages them to participate in these giving programmes wholeheartedly. Let them know that their efforts to make this world a better place are accounted for alongside their career growth.</p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Networking</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">To develop effective employer-giving programmes, it is important to stay in touch with recognizable NGOs and Non-profit organizations. Ask them to keep you notified about their latest programs and innovations. At, the same time, work on making your firm’s charity circle so that word can be spread about your company’s and its employees’ willingness to give back to the community. </p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Indulge workforce</span></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Appoint an ambassador, or contact person from amidst your existing workforce, or make a workplace club that takes care of the details regarding employer giving programmes in particular – like reaching out to charities, advertising events held by the company, encouraging more employees to participate etc. It will make your employees feel even more included in the company’s philanthropic projects. Let employees reach out to the community and express their altruism on their own. It will create greater chances of participation, involvement, and fulfilment for them.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: large;" size="5">Author Bio:</font></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/s510/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="458" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/w179-h200/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" width="179" /></a></div><br />Name: Shalinee Banerjee<p></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">A 27-year-old writer from the small town of Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India, pursuing Masters in Arts (English Literature) and has a passion for storytelling. Currently working on honing my skills as a novel writer and working on my first book, the title undisclosed at the moment. Loves reading and gaining knowledge and developing content based on my unique perspective of all the latest happenings around the</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">world.</p></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-4995030821358280592023-01-09T12:11:00.052+05:302023-01-09T12:11:00.185+05:30How to Deal With Coworkers Who Pass the Buck?<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSPTJYFbxOipuVIL0T7NCl1R-nvfMYbuj8GuQGAcJYnPiWAI9hEb8dADUaM05HW6FTTD1DCHpDS-CJ-uos3516qO9ZxeW1wVay7yOe10HEgSNiIC9D7helftCJQPZbve9zYD7_fuhWFsGMdl2rkKPiuLTdvviUsvqWMOOp3AbXOLnHf11JqG1Gv6PiA/s5472/angry-businesswoman-arguing-with-businessman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSPTJYFbxOipuVIL0T7NCl1R-nvfMYbuj8GuQGAcJYnPiWAI9hEb8dADUaM05HW6FTTD1DCHpDS-CJ-uos3516qO9ZxeW1wVay7yOe10HEgSNiIC9D7helftCJQPZbve9zYD7_fuhWFsGMdl2rkKPiuLTdvviUsvqWMOOp3AbXOLnHf11JqG1Gv6PiA/w400-h266/angry-businesswoman-arguing-with-businessman.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A functional corporate environment works like a well-oiled machine. Responsibilities are distributed among the employees, there’s fun, there’s banter, but eventually, everyone has to do their part of the job. </div><span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a corporate employee, you must have come across that one annoying, lazy-ass coworker who runs away from responsibility like a plague, eventually making you do all the work at least once. You may not want to go running to your managers or team leaders at once as it might make you look like a complainer who can’t get along with your peers. However, when you start noticing that this sort of behaviour has become a norm instead of a one-time thing, something needs to be done. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is a fact that there are always a few coworkers in the organization who evade responsibilities, and/or pass on the workload to someone else. In addition to being annoying, this sort of behaviour by coworkers who don’t pull their weight can undermine the morale and productivity of the entire firm. It harms the entire workforce’s mindset as these colleagues waste valuable time, passes blames, have trouble learning from mistakes and somehow seem to get away with it all. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Employees learn employees repeat.</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Passing on responsibilities and workload, a.k.a. passing the buck is a common practice among coworkers in a workplace. Knowing how to deal with a coworker who wants you to do their work is an important survival skill in the workplace. However, managers and team leaders need to be vigilant in pinpointing this particular behaviour pattern among the employees.</p><div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Origins of Passing the buck</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">The term “Passing the buck” originated from a ritual practised during card games where the players use a marker called a “buck”. The marker is then passed among the players and whosoever ends up with the buck has the responsibility of dealing. Eventually, “passing the buck” became synonymous with passing on responsibility. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Why Coworkers are Passing the Buck</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">To deal with coworkers who pass the buck, we first need to get a grasp of the reasons for the occurrence of these behaviour patterns. It’s never the direct approach where someone just walks over to your cubicle and dumps their share of the work on you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coworkers who regularly evade responsibility do so skillfully. Therefore, passing the buck might look like constantly being late to work, not submitting a report on time, making a mistake and then making excuses to cover up those mistakes, giving the wrong advice to a client, or blaming someone or something else.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The main reasons coworkers tend to pass the buck might be the fear of not being up to the task or the fear of getting scolded or blamed for any mistakes. It points towards their insecurities and lack of confidence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another reason for passing the buck among coworkers is seeing other people do it and getting away with it successfully. One person sees his/her coworker avoid responsibility and put the blame on someone else without facing any serious consequences, and they do the same. Soon, everybody joins in and the game of passing the blame begins as well. As a result, the workflow is disrupted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coworkers start complaining and talking behind each other’s backs. Hardworking employees who eventually end up with all the work start to resent those coworkers who are passing the buck. Needless to say, it makes the workplace environment toxic and pushes good employees to quit. </div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">How to Deal with Coworkers that Are Passing the Buck </span></h3><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Have a Talk with your coworkers</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;">Indeed, you should not be picking up the slack for lazy or irresponsible coworkers. As much as you want to barge up to their desk and give them a piece of your mind, stop and remember that a peaceful heart-to-heart never hurt anyone. You might get positive results by sitting down and privately speaking to your coworker about their behaviour and the ways it is affecting you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It also helps in getting to know your coworker better and builds up a positive rapport for you as you went to them first with the issue instead of running to a senior complaining. It might give them a change of heart, or you may find that they want to complete the task after all but couldn’t for whatever reasons. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who knows, you might be able to help them with whatever problems they are facing which is stopping them from doing their job and help them get back on track. Meanwhile, you’ll make a loyal friend while brainstorming for a solution. </div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Help with finding a solution </span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;">As much as the phrase “If you want something done properly, do it yourself” resonates with you and your situation, you have got to understand that everyone has a role to play in an organization. If for some reason, your coworker doesn’t seem to be able to cope with their responsibility help them get an idea of what is expected of them and how to get the job done instead of doing it for them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">New employees generally are hesitant and scared of messing up. But at the same time, they are afraid to voice this issue and ask for help for the fear of being misjudged or being made fun of. As a result, they wait for somebody else to do the work. Listen to your coworker’s reasons for not contributing fully with an open mind. Find out exactly where your coworker is facing an issue with the work. If appropriate, offer tips for navigating priorities and setting goals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you are dealing with a new employee who doesn’t quite have a grasp of their job, help them out by suggesting necessary online/offline courses or guiding them to company-sponsored training to improve their skills.</div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Communicate boundaries clearly </span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;">Honesty is the best policy. When you are stuck with a coworker who has a habit of passing the buck, being upfront about the issue instead of beating around the bush and trying to get them to do their job might save you a lot of time and yield a better result.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If your coworker shrugs off your concerns and refuses to acknowledge their pass-the-buck behaviour, remain calm and communicate boundaries. Let it be known that you will not pick up their slack under any circumstances. Also, state it clearly that you will not be covering up their mistakes if they try to mess up intentionally and only they are responsible for their share of the work, and the consequences.</div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Spotting Systematic Issue</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;">It may very well be the case that the reason coworkers pass the buck is not their lack of spirit but instead some issue with the documentation process, or the system itself. While many might use this as an excuse to slack off on the job, others might be facing genuine problems which result in a delayed or disrupted workflow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s better to understand the root cause for the passing-the-buck behaviour among coworkers first instead of starting a new cycle of the blame game. </div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Clashing Personality Traits</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;">All sorts of people can be found under one roof in a diverse working environment. Some employees are timid, some pushy and some are self-proclaimed bosses. It is normal for people of different personalities to clash with each other while working on the same or similar projects. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Small banters might quickly escalate into deep-seated resentment, and some coworkers might start passing the buck because they don’t like the bossy guy, or they don’t quite fit in well with the rest of the team and their system of getting the job done. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Step out of the “if they don’t do their part why should I care?” mentality and voice your opinion in the next team meeting. Ask managers to clarify the roles and responsibilities of all employees and fair division of work. Voice your thoughts about how everyone on the team has valuable talents to contribute and encourage them to take charge of their designated role instead of acting like passive players.</div><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Involve Management</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Does your supervisor know that your coworker is slacking off and passing the buck onto you? If yes, why haven’t they done something about it yet?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If, after employing all the above-mentioned tricks, you are still struggling with coworkers with passing-the-buck tendencies, you have every right to raise a complaint to your team leader. While involving the supervisor on the scene, make sure to express your desire to see your coworker succeed with the right coaching and instruction so you won’t be misjudged as a complainer. State clearly how stressful and demoralizing it is for you to keep picking up the slack for underperforming coworkers. You can also provide documentary proof showing how much time you're spending helping the struggling coworker and how it negatively impacts your overall performance as well as the company’s end goal.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: large;" size="5">Author Bio:</font></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/s510/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="458" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/w179-h200/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" width="179" /></a></div><br />Name: Shalinee Banerjee<p></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">A 27-year-old writer from the small town of Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India, pursuing Masters in Arts (English Literature) and has a passion for storytelling. Currently working on honing my skills as a novel writer and working on my first book, the title undisclosed at the moment. Loves reading and gaining knowledge and developing content based on my unique perspective of all the latest happenings around the</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">world.</p></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-7199637887688596312023-01-02T11:50:00.072+05:302023-01-02T11:50:00.176+05:3010 Most Unethical Behaviour Traits Shown By Coworkers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK98n1YSHuOPkOFstMKxZ5Hx66BbXUrt9NTysz4zRw3WhKXXY4_yHH9XmuuVfUQBHl04P4l4MEzyImy83JHLVK7lg9UQcZlkNAXzTFS4OVpO5mQ7W_7rcWI6-3IvuZ8RxHzFFsk7J9TLMApsyY32U68cyZGw2MawyUWDnw62fqRr1hAdB2nAoZjNJH7w/s5062/dissatisfied-female-executive-blaming-threatening-male-employee-team-meeting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3375" data-original-width="5062" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK98n1YSHuOPkOFstMKxZ5Hx66BbXUrt9NTysz4zRw3WhKXXY4_yHH9XmuuVfUQBHl04P4l4MEzyImy83JHLVK7lg9UQcZlkNAXzTFS4OVpO5mQ7W_7rcWI6-3IvuZ8RxHzFFsk7J9TLMApsyY32U68cyZGw2MawyUWDnw62fqRr1hAdB2nAoZjNJH7w/w400-h266/dissatisfied-female-executive-blaming-threatening-male-employee-team-meeting.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Ethics are those values, principles or rules that we, as human beings, set for ourselves to live a better life. Ethics are a prerequisite for all aspects of our lives. Without these ethics there will be no moral code and the world will erupt into chaos.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Keeping that in mind, our profession makes a big part in our lives. So we can say that in our professional fields we need to be bound by some ethics or principles to keep ourselves and our colleagues in check. Yet, it’s a tale as old as time that there are always those who think they can shy away from these unspoken rules and suffer no consequences.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Be it a business, a nine-to-five or any other kind of job – it doesn’t matter whether you go to an office, a workshop or work remotely from the comfort of your home, workplace ethics are vital to building a successful career.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">One of the basic reasons behind an organization's success is strictly abiding by moral codes. This is the reason why companies all around the globe embrace ethical practices and behaviour and asks their employees to do the same. It also helps to increase productivity and uphold integrity. It promotes goodwill as customers, clients and people in general trust those firms and/or individuals that strictly adhere to their principles.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Lies In Workplace</span></h3><div>As our beloved character, Dr Gregory House from House M.D. once said, “Everybody lies.”</div><div><br /></div><div>As hard a pill it is to swallow, everybody does indeed lie while at the same time everybody hates being lied to. It’s a paradox. It’s also the most detestable yet common unethical behaviour. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lying kills people’s trust in us, ruins relationships, and puts us and/or someone in trouble. It’s a bottomless pit of misery. Lying in the workplace is also the most common unethical behaviour at the workplace, yet not a single person can claim that they have never lied; either to their boss, peers, and juniors. A lot of employees start lying right from their Resume or CV – adding skills and experiences they don’t have to land a job.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lying can be small scale: lying that you are sick to get a day off to go watch your favourite Avengers movie – or it could be large scale: lying about sales report so you and your cohorts don’t get fired. </div><div>It can be a simple white lie or a vicious web of lies. It starts small and piles up into a big, stinky dump. Employees need to understand that lying about work will sooner or later get them in trouble. It leads to dire consequences where they can get expelled, fired or (worst case scenario) banned from the industry for life.</div><div> </div><div>However, we must also understand the situation that led to an employee lying. If and when we catch someone lying, we must ask ourselves why our colleague felt the need to lie before jumping to conclusions. Is it a force of habit or are they afraid of something or someone? Whatever may be the case, treat the matter cautiously.</div><div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Deliberate Deception</span></h3><div>Although quite a bit similar to the above-mentioned behaviour trait, deliberate deception is not just outright lying to someone on their face. It is the full package of lying, stealing and manipulation of facts and statements. It includes instances like taking credit for someone else’s hard work, taking sick leaves for no good reason, deceiving customers by misrepresenting the product or service to get the sale, sabotaging another person’s work or image… you get the idea. </div><div><br /></div><div>These sorts of deception cause long-lasting damage on many scales and there is no place to hide or no way to get out if caught in the act. Severe disciplinary actions could be taken against the perpetrators and it never ends well for all parties involved.</div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Verbal Harassment/abuse</span></h3><div>Some employees, when provoked, cannot resist the urge to verbally harass a coworker or customer. Some do so while taking general workplace decorum in stride.</div><div> </div><div>Using foul language, taunting, and being sarcastic are all forms of verbal harassment. Often time, extended exposure to such a person who verbally abuses everyone leads to long-term mental damage to their coworkers, more so if the said person is in a senior position. Many take one verbally abusive employee as an excuse to start behaving the same way. It negatively impacts the work environment and may even leave a lasting image on the firm’s overall image.</div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Sexual Harassment/abuse</span></h3><div><b>Do I even need to begin how bad this one is?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Sexual Harassments are unwelcome acts or behaviour that are sexual, such as physical contact or advances; demanding or requesting sexual favours; making sexually offensive remarks; directly or indirectly sharing pornographic materials or any other form of unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature.</div><div><br /></div><div>Many companies have implemented zero-tolerance policies for sexual harassment in and outside the workplace as this kind of behaviour by employees can and will tarnish the company’s reputation.</div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Nepotism/Favoritism</span></h3><div>Usually conducted by senior faculty members, <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/nepotism-in-indi.html" target="_blank">nepotism</a> or favouritism is a sign of serious corruption in the workplace rather than just being unethical. Sidelining a hardworking employee who had worked for many years and who had contributed significantly to the company’s growth just so the boss’s lap dog gets the promotion. Another example is that the Manager was forced to give the vacant position to the Senior Manager’s brother-in-law instead of a qualified, and well-deserving candidate because his wife, (who just so happens to be a major partner in the firm) said so. Doesn’t sound like a place where you’d want to work, right?</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, it happens and it happens a lot more than you’d like to expect and I’d like to admit.</div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Undermining Company’s Policies</span></h3><div>Most employers clearly state company policies against deception, coercion and illegal activities. They strive to convey an image of trustworthiness to their customers and employees. Yet, there are always those few bad nuts who are driven to go against the company’s policies to achieve their personal goals. </div><div>This particular kind of ethical misconduct includes employees making promises that cannot be fulfilled, employees stealing to line their own pockets, employees not respecting the company’s set rules and boundaries because they thought going the other way will be more profitable, employees questioning company’s integrity openly in front of clients/customers, employees lying to clients/customers just to get things their way regardless of what company handbook describes etc. </div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Theft/Embezzlement</span></h3><div>Some employees redirect company funds to their accounts, and some employees commit fraud with the company’s marketable goods and services, replacing quality products with counterfeits and later selling the same products elsewhere at higher rates, stealing extra notebooks, pens, files, clothing, food etc. for personal use. All of these come under theft and embezzlement. The person who steals from the company risks losing their job. It’s not just a matter of a few products or some extra bucks, it’s a matter f trust and integrity. Employee breaks the employer’s trust by stealing from them and often it leads to strict actions being taken not just against the guilty employee but the rest of the workforce as well.</div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Passing the buck</span></h3><div>Coworkers who don’t pull their weight, those who shy away from taking on tasks and responsibility, and in case of a mistake, blame others instead of being accountable and rectifying the situation are often big hurdles not just for the leader but the whole team as well. It undermines morale, productivity and the sense of camaraderie and unity that is essential in the workplace. A coworker’s unwillingness to cooperate and inability to contribute to the joint goals of the team disrupts the workflow of the entire firm in one way or another. </div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Taking Shortcuts</span></h3><div>Employees getting creative and inventing ways to make the work easier are acceptable and often time appreciated. However, coming up with ways to evade difficult work completely and not being willing to take accountability for such acts is completely out of line. It’s a straight-out behaviour issue. It includes plagiarism, copy-pasting data and reports from other employees with similar tasks, and threatening coworkers to do your work for you. Oftentimes, shortcuts taken by coworkers might not even look as it sounds. For example, an employee might intentionally drag the work given to them so that they won’t be given more work, or so they can claim overtime payment. This sort of behaviour is highly unethical. </div><h3><span style="color: #ffa400;">Taking undue breaks</span></h3><div>Slacking off when no one is watching, pretending to be sick to avoid work, taking excessively long lunch breaks or tea breaks, randomly leaving work without telling anybody for a long duration throughout and then as the clock strikes running home leaving the work incomplete. Coworkers are also often found standing in groups gossiping away while their workload keeps on piling until it's passed on to someone else. The list also includes daydreaming (unless that’s a part of your job), working on personal matters during normal work time, coming late to work or finishing the day early consistently and without reasonable justification… there is an endless number of ways for coworkers to take undue breaks and get out of doing their actual job. Makes you wonder why they even wanted a job in the first place. </div><div><br /></div><div>Employees taking undue advantage of breaks, and taking the time allotted for work to do anything but work, and that too for no good reason is a major issue. It breaks people’s faith in the claims of a healthy, helpful and friendly work environment. </div><h4><span style="color: #ffa400;">Conclusion</span></h4><div>To keep it short, sweet and simple, implementing workplace ethics creates a positive workplace environment. It makes our work easier and strengthens bonds between coworkers and coworkers and employees and customers or clients. It leads to the firm’s growth. Just the same way, unethical behaviour by employees and management causes strains, disrupts the company’s growth and even damages the reputation of both the employee and the organization they are working for. Covering up such issues does more damage than good. Organizations should work on corrective measures for these problems instead of turning a blind eye towards the problem or passing on blames. </div><div><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: large;" size="5">Author Bio:</font></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/s510/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="458" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/w179-h200/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" width="179" /></a></div><br />Name: Shalinee Banerjee<p></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">A 27-year-old writer from the small town of Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India, pursuing Masters in Arts (English Literature) and has a passion for storytelling. Currently working on honing my skills as a novel writer and working on my first book, the title undisclosed at the moment. Loves reading and gaining knowledge and developing content based on my unique perspective of all the latest happenings around the</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">world.</p></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-33700405154609576392022-12-26T10:45:00.013+05:302022-12-27T15:33:55.402+05:3010 Company Perks that Retain Employees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4KRdv0m57H0rT5CR_wt0-Oy1SUp3KzzDLZnWESC61nTEbUdMkob1UqdJwwULzySpfnDI2MtIsh8TZ2Qk3zS9mYQryldVUcXCswFNPmRE0yds-p7xGfnScQcUQIXmbtBPN6pZBX8IW_kW7GaGqv96PnoXxZlfFL2iprXLuoFvZoEcQlPucPTVsFEf8Q/s5000/benefits-wages-salary-advantage-income.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4487" data-original-width="5000" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4KRdv0m57H0rT5CR_wt0-Oy1SUp3KzzDLZnWESC61nTEbUdMkob1UqdJwwULzySpfnDI2MtIsh8TZ2Qk3zS9mYQryldVUcXCswFNPmRE0yds-p7xGfnScQcUQIXmbtBPN6pZBX8IW_kW7GaGqv96PnoXxZlfFL2iprXLuoFvZoEcQlPucPTVsFEf8Q/w400-h359/benefits-wages-salary-advantage-income.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Everybody wants to gain recognition at their workplace for their hard work. Perks are benefits – in addition to the existing salaries – are the best way for employers to show appreciation to the employees.</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">It has been seen that job satisfaction among employees of any firm is directly related to the benefits or job perks given by their respective companies. However, failing to provide these simple benefits leads to unmotivated employees, which then brings poor results for the firm. It also affects the company’s goodwill in the employment market.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">So, what exactly are these perks and why are they so important?</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Perks, or Employee Benefits, are the add-on privileges, non-cash allowances, and/or additional facilities given to employees apart from their salaries.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Generally, people opt for organizations that provide an assorted platter of employee perks. In fact, in today’s corporate world, these benefits provided by companies play a major part in attracting potential employees. Depending on the size and budget of a firm, employers offer a variety of perks to attract suitable candidates and boost job satisfaction among existing employees. Benefits are a great way to boost morale among your workforce.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, for those looking for a new job, or those looking to hire new candidates, it is useful to understand the types of perks that are available in the marketplace. For employers, knowing what your eligible would-be employee will be looking for will help you better offer suitable perks and <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2022/11/10-Elements-Of-Corporate-Culture-That-Matters-Most-To-Employees.html" target="_blank">retain a good workforce</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Benefits are available for both full-time and part-time employees depending upon the size of the firm and the nature of the industry in which they are operating. Some common types of perks include life insurance, health insurance, transportation, free food, etc. some firms even have additional perks like gyms, spas, shopping vouchers etc, that employees can apply for as per their choices.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The importance of these benefits to each employee may vary depending on their professional goals, personal preferences, family, environment, location etc. While for some employees life insurance or health insurance will be the most important benefit as it prepares them and their families for the unforeseeable future. Others might prefer the option to work remotely as it suits their lifestyle. Some employees may ask for relocation help as they need more resources to move into a new city for their dream jobs. Some might profit from an in-office gym as they could not take enough time off from their busy lives to pay attention to their health. The list goes on.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Generally, while deciding on which perks to provide to employees, established companies look into the demographics of their existing employees to determine which perks to offer. So, if you are <a href="https://medium.com/mixed-minds/common-mistakes-we-make-before-accepting-a-job-offer-7bb2e6021c8e" target="_blank">new in the market and looking for a job</a>, it is important to understand which of these perks offered by employers suits you best. And if you are an employer on the hunt for potential candidates, here is a list of 10 company perks that retain employees:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Health insurance</li><li>Flexible hours</li><li>Training programmes and stipends</li><li>Life insurance</li><li>Paid leaves</li><li>Wellness programmes</li><li>Performance bonus</li><li>Recreational areas: nap room, game rooms, canteens etc.</li><li>Corporate discounts</li><li>Remote work option</li></ol><div>Honourable mention: Relocation assistance, paid parental leaves.</div><div><br /></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Health Insurance</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">It is one of the most common company perks that ensures that employees get basic medical care. Medical insurance provided by companies might cover any health-related issue that may – or may not – occur during a person’s employment period. It covers accidents, chronic conditions, vision and dental services etc.</div><div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Flexible Hours</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the most popular perks given by employers is the option to choose the part of the day when you feel you are at your best to perform the task at hand. The option to work at the time you want. This perk is given by employers to employees who can work productively in hours different from a typical work day because not all of us are meant for 9 to 5 schedules. It is the most useful perk for parents of small children, people with disability, people with over-active imaginations such as writers and artists or people who are already playing the role of caregiver to their sick family member but at the same time need to maintain a job with a regular paycheck.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Training Programmes and Stipends</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">This is an especially helpful perk for an entry-level job. Training opportunities give the newbies a chance to learn about the industry. It also helps them gain perspective about the role they need to play without the fear of majorly screwing up. It helps build camaraderie and confidence among employees. It also helps provide insights on how to improve work performance. It has been seen that with regular training programmes, employees tend to have a better grasp of their responsibility. Also, proving training stipends encourages employees to participate in these training programmes.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Life Insurance</span></h3>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Many companies provide life insurance plans as part of the benefits package. The insurance plan offered by the employer may last for the employee’s term of employment. In these packages, a specific percentage of the employee&#39;s existing salary is set aside by the employer as life insurance money for the beneficiary. This amount is then paid back once the term is over or at the time of voluntary or involuntary retirement. These plans typically cost less than individual policies, which makes them more popular with employees.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Paid Leaves</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Paid leaves, paid holidays, paid time-offs, call it whatever you want. These are benefits where an employee is paid even when he takes time off from work. An extension of this benefit is providing unlimited vacation. It is one of the most sought-after company perks and many companies are providing these time offs one way or another to retain employees. Some seek sick leaves, some for vacation time and some for weekends off. Typically, an employee acquires a set amount of paid holidays. Other than week-offs and national holidays. It depends on how much work they have completed during their pay period. The time set aside for paid leaves also depends on the company’s preferences. However, some of these paid leaves are more or less mandatory by law, such as maternity leaves or recovery periods in case the employee suffers from an accident.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Wellness Programmes</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">As employees had to spend so many hours at work, it starts to take its toll on their overall well-being. Companies launch wellness programs to encourage employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These include access to therapists and crisis counsellors, mental health assistance, recommended nutritionists, discounted gym memberships, regular health check-ups and so forth. It might seem like a costly perk to add to the employee&#39;s benefits package, but it comes with its advantages. As it&#39;s been seen in the last few years, taking the initiative to keep your workforce fit also helps improve their mental health which then leads to an increase in productivity.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Performance bonus</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Performance bonus is the best way to show employees that you appreciate their hard work. Performance bonus comes in many forms. It could be conventional, like a few extra bucks on top of an employee’s salary, or festival bonuses like Christmas bonus, Diwali bonus etc. it can also be unconventional, like a movie or game tickets, or an all-expenses-paid vacation for employees and their family. Rewarding them for their performance motivates employees to achieve goals more effectively.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Recreational activities/area</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Some offices have nap rooms for people who do long shifts, some companies provide club memberships, and some places have in-built game rooms where employees can go to relieve stress. Big companies even take franchisees of a famous fast-food brand or support a café in their office building just so that their employees don’t need to stand in long lines for their morning coffees or a light evening snack. It also helps in making your company more inclusive.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Corporate discounts</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">These are discounts that are developed exclusively for corporate employees. Employees are offered a discount on the original price of products and services by their employer. Sometimes, companies also use this method to test their products internally before launching them to the market. Companies can also give stuff away free of cost to their employees and note their honest feedback to know what might work best for their final consumers and what other improvements can be made.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Remote work option</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Another perk high on the popularity scale, especially after the whole COVID-19 disaster, is the work-from-home model. Companies are transitioning to this work model fast, and that too not just to avoid the contagious disease. As it has come out as a proven alternative to long commutes to workplaces, people, especially <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/work-from-home-women-silver-lining-pandemic-sayantani-banerjee/" target="_blank">women are opting for remote work</a> more and more each day. It has opened employment opportunities for many who found it difficult to leave their responsibilities to their home and family to pursue their dream career. Therefore, many companies out there are providing full-time remote work options as well as hybrid models where you only have to visit the office some days a week.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h4><span style="color: #ffa400;">Conclusion</span></h4><div>While the above-mentioned perks are some of the more traditional benefits, many small employers are finding personalized, consumer-oriented benefits are of greater value to employees. These perks include free food and drinks, movie nights, game nights and other events, charity projects, a <a href="https://armchairjournal.com/office-environment-and-employee-morale/" target="_blank">friendly work environment</a> etc. You can build your firm’s employee benefits package with the popular benefits listed in this article to retain your best employees. Progressive companies continue to up the bar with each new recruitment period. So, it might also be useful to stay updated on the latest trends.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: large;" size="5">Author Bio:</font></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/s510/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="458" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/w179-h200/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" width="179" /></a></div><br />Name: Shalinee Banerjee<p></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px;">A 27-year-old writer from the small town of Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India, pursuing Masters in Arts (English Literature) and has a passion for storytelling. Currently working on honing my skills as a novel writer and working on my first book, the title undisclosed at the moment. Loves reading and gaining knowledge and developing content based on my unique perspective of all the latest happenings around the</p><p style="margin: 0px;">world.</p></div></div></div><div><br style="text-align: left;" /></div></div></div></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-37718947270137579972022-11-23T08:35:00.016+05:302022-12-27T15:36:06.169+05:3010 Elements Of Corporate Culture That Matters Most To Employees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcywu505t0p-kMvjP9nFzyMBJcF9Y1PviXhZ46SZcPBeP17nytDsLH4xMRlOxroehyJ9UahaXVTr0yTwa6sl70U9a-uFhWDW4VvTDxOx40FjwVOPB4thCUGNLFP_7JddRKwWx1PqJfktnMDBTFXn-4aMm-ioRs-QiYrt8FLRZVjkoOfuOPWGUYD2sDVA/s1060/corporate%20culture.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1060" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcywu505t0p-kMvjP9nFzyMBJcF9Y1PviXhZ46SZcPBeP17nytDsLH4xMRlOxroehyJ9UahaXVTr0yTwa6sl70U9a-uFhWDW4VvTDxOx40FjwVOPB4thCUGNLFP_7JddRKwWx1PqJfktnMDBTFXn-4aMm-ioRs-QiYrt8FLRZVjkoOfuOPWGUYD2sDVA/w400-h225/corporate%20culture.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">As businesses worldwide are transitioning to work-from-home models, it becomes crucial for enterprises to create a corporate culture where the employees feel accepted, motivated and above all, appreciated for the time and effort they are investing. Only when an employee feels that the company they are working for values their role in the organisation, they are more likely to be driven to work efficiently and effectively.</p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Regardless of where employees are reporting from, they seek a <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/05/workplace-ambience-can-affect-employee-attitude-productivity.html" target="_blank">work environment</a> that promotes positivity and hard work, the lack of which had been one of the root causes for people to quit their jobs in search of something better. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">A sustainable corporate culture gets people excited to come to work. Therefore it becomes all the more important to establish a corporate culture which focuses on employee satisfaction. </p><h3 style="text-align: justify;">But what makes a good company the best place to work?</h3><p style="text-align: justify;">10 essential elements of corporate culture matter the most to employees when they are deciding whether they should stay with their current employer – or start looking for another job.</p><div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Leadership</h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Efficient leadership is the make or break of any corporate culture. Listening to his/her team members, encouraging them, celebrating their victories, providing honest and straightforward feedback and maintaining open lines of communication are all <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/want-to-become-successful-team-leader.html" target="_blank">essential qualities of a good leader</a>. Management teams, on all levels, must remember that it is their behaviour and commitment towards their employees that leave the biggest impact when it comes to working efficiency.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In corporate culture, and especially in work-from-home models, employees tend to depend on their direct bosses rather than the “upper management” with whom they have seldom contact. It makes it all the more important for team leaders to exhibit the core values of the company while at the same time being compassionate and accommodating to their charges. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As they say, a good leader leads by example. It is also important for team leaders to ensure that the people they are hiring as part of the team reflect the values that are instilled in the company’s culture and call out any sort of <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/07/three-signs-your-manager-demonstrates-toxic-bahavior.html" target="_blank">unethical and toxic behaviours.</a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Core Values</h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Core values are more than just mottos hanging on the wall. These values are those guidelines that will never change no matter how much the company itself changes. These are the standards that all employees need to live up to. Be mindful while choosing and implementing these core values. When an employee sees their seniors sticking by these values, they tend to reciprocate and simultaneously adopt these values themselves. These values stay with them long after they have left the cubical or desk they have committed their bottoms to. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Community, Communication and Camaraderie </h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Nobody wants to work in a boring place where they have no fun. Colleagues and friends make a hectic day at work bearable. An employee wants to feel like he belongs in the company that he is working for. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Successful corporate culture helps build a community where the employee gets a sense of belonging which, in turn, motivates them to give back to this community. As such, formal and informal communication among employees and team leads should be encouraged and it should be free and friendly. Group meetings, fun activities and other team-building events should be held at equal intervals to promote a sense of camaraderie among employees. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Compensations and Benefits </h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What benefits will I get if I were to join this company?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is one of the most important and frequently asked questions by a would-be employee of a corporate firm. Compensation and benefits are important for all employees based n the nature of their job. Health insurance, over-times, paid leaves, pension, whether or not they will get paid extra for working on weekends, all of these matters. Compensations and benefits provided to employees is an important topics to discuss during the H.R. meeting. Tread those waters carefully.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Innovations, Rewards and Feedback</h3><div><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">As said by Syed Balkhi from WPBeginner, “People get excited to be in a place where their actions and ideas make a difference.”</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A corporate culture where employees are unafraid to be creative during work and with work is as attractive a deal as it sounds. A good company is innovative, and an innovative company has creative employees at its heart. So naturally, the corporate culture where people are rewarded for their creativity tends to do much better than others. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, go ahead and hold brainstorming sessions and urge your employees to share feedback. Show your employees that you are listening to them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Consistency</h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Traditions maketh culture. It is important to organize events and sessions for employees’ benefit. However, a one-time effort to boost corporate culture will feel underhanded. To build a sustainable corporate culture, consistency is the key. Be consistent with your efforts to create that environment of belonging and camaraderie.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Job Security</h3><div style="text-align: justify;">It is universal knowledge that when an employee feels secure in their position, they tend to commit fewer mistakes. The possibility that they can be fired any day for small mistakes scares employees and they tend to make even more mistakes. Those piling mistakes make them even more insecure which then affects their overall work capacity and ends up turning their fear into reality. Insecurities regarding the possibility of getting fired need to be thwarted as soon as it emerges as eventually leads to a vicious cycle. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://armchairjournal.com/work-from-home-a-boon-for-the-introverts/" target="_blank">Work-from-home</a> is scary as it is due to so many scams that are going on out there. So, it is important to assure employees that they won’t be scammed out of the six to eight hours they are spending each day n front of their computer screens while locked up in their rooms. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Learning and Commitment</h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Learning is a big part of one’s growth. In our modern and fast-changing world, learning and acquiring new skills had become an essential part of one’s life. Each one of us is a player in this big race for survival and success whether or not we like it. Sure, we don’t need a reminder of it every day, but if you have spent years in a firm and come out knowing no more than what you knew on the first day, it counts as an unprofitable experience that leaves a bad taste in your mouth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Commitments are not to be made just for the sake of the company’s growth but also for the personal development of the employee. Why else would a person invest so much of their time and effort to do a better job if he or she has nothing to get from it?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Corporate culture needs to promote an environment where employees can hone their skills and gain a new and better experience. Ensure that commitment to the company’s goals will lead to your <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/07/was-your-manager-competent-enough-to.html" target="_blank">employee's professional growth</a> and then see the ball rolling.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Care and Celebration</h3><div style="text-align: justify;">It is essential to know the names (and correct pronunciations) of all of your employees. Wish them on their birthdays. Give them free food. Mention their names in the newsletter for praise-worthy achievements in their personal lives that are not related to the company. Visit them in the hospital, or send them a get-well-soon email, whichever is possible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In short, appreciate your employee for the complete human being they are and not just another cog in the big corporate clock.</div><h3 style="text-align: justify;">Reorganizations and Developments </h3><div style="text-align: justify;">Corporate firms are formed, they take off, they grow and all of it happens thanks to the workforce who makes up the heart, soul, and muscle of the firm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, after COVID-19 people are facing a hard time returning to work. It becomes especially hard to transition the entire workforce to this new style of work while maintaining healthy corporate culture as the workforce adjusts to this new reality. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reorganization is one of the most difficult issues to handle for a corporate firm. Changes are never easy, and often unfunny. It has been seen that employees have a hard time adjusting to organizational changes that are too fast, inconsistent, haphazardly executed, and lack clarity regarding procedures and end goals. If the blow isn’t softened or managed carefully, developments as such can go any which way. The strategy implemented in these scenarios needs to be well thought-out to avoid negative outcomes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the end, the corporate culture and the employee’s view towards their work environment are crucial factors for an individual when they are deciding to stay with their employer or quit and search for something better. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: large;" size="5">Author Bio:</font></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/s510/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="458" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYydkKCS-vn9WBM3T8v4icTD83lEFzxyQ-MJGoqmQ2t5sLW1z1I5PwNt-gGubVt6evxcFw8Z4ivvkcyhg8lJKwR3AFtRwp5yDQLxXhqUGk9S-fCdi9E9ZPOJvpF1kRnIPCjM7zl2qG5eE_Xo5FGpxALxlCqn7Wj1OnRc-9k4QZYp7ZE2YvVekGz6dlQ/w179-h200/Shalinee%20Banerjee.PNG" width="179" /></a></div><br />Name: Shalinee Banerjee<p></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">A 27-year-old writer from the small town of Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, India, pursuing Masters in Arts (English Literature) and has a passion for storytelling. Currently working on honing my skills as a novel writer and working on my first book, the title undisclosed at the moment. Loves reading and gaining knowledge and developing content based on my unique perspective of all the latest happenings around the</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">world.</p></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div>
সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-65564126723458948122022-11-22T00:12:00.006+05:302022-11-23T11:27:48.764+05:305 Ways to deal with hate speech on social media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4i5vTlDWuWSsDH-EahcbjHvoZIBXBUrDidnlQ_vt9DaKfSQ8kFZAWsFtuE0li7eqaHBPbASt_wQ99-NFHgMpz9DhgW6CTQm4AgkCfpTT2cGRq1iDf2bk_9FriU6uy07dzpxOBjwoTSrvczpRAzMoO5y8jxuMjDsrJKUS8QzNUbVtOoV7PLpT_24e_pQ/s996/social-media-bullying.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="996" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4i5vTlDWuWSsDH-EahcbjHvoZIBXBUrDidnlQ_vt9DaKfSQ8kFZAWsFtuE0li7eqaHBPbASt_wQ99-NFHgMpz9DhgW6CTQm4AgkCfpTT2cGRq1iDf2bk_9FriU6uy07dzpxOBjwoTSrvczpRAzMoO5y8jxuMjDsrJKUS8QzNUbVtOoV7PLpT_24e_pQ/w400-h266/social-media-bullying.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Social media is a golden platform for connecting people and allowing them to network, share news and air their personal opinions. Unfortunately, it is often also filled with negativity. One such negative aspect of social media is hate speech. Hate speech incites violence, intolerance and toxicity. Its scale and impact are now amplified by new communications technologies. Hate speech has become one of the most common ways of spreading divisive rhetoric on a global scale, threatening peace around the world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>It has now become an everyday occurrence online that people announce their hate for all members of a certain ethnic group, race or religion just out of the blue. Whether hate speech targets a single person or a group of people, it is undeniably destructive and violent.</div><div><br /></div><div>People can save themselves from this trolling and hate on social platforms in the following ways: -</div><h3><br /></h3><h3>Limit the use of social media- </h3><div><div>The huge volume of information on the Internet may have played its part in inciting hate speech. Many individuals still harbour prejudiced feelings towards members of certain demographic groups. Hence, it is equally essential for us to keep a safe distance from these applications. We can successfully achieve this by turning off the social media notifications on our cell phones and also keeping a check on the duration for which we use social media. </div></div><h3><br /></h3><h3>Accepting healthy criticism by not confusing it with hate- </h3><div>We must understand that the person offering constructive criticism does not intend to make us feel bad about ourselves. Rather, they recognize our strengths and are giving us the tools to recognize and overcome weaknesses. It’s up to us to turn that feedback into something positive that motivates us to keep working hard and to improve.</div><h3><br /></h3><h3>Getting involved in constructive discussions only- </h3><div><div>We can indulge in good practices for discouraging online hate including replacing negativity with positivity and using counter-speech through hashtags and digital allyship to respond to hateful posts. Social media users themselves have the power to influence digital culture, amplify marginalized voices, and build more empathic and inclusive online communities.</div></div><div><h3><br /></h3><h3>Not losing cool over inflammatory posts-</h3><div><div>Social media encourage and even guilt people into reacting quickly. Inflammatory posts that garner a lot of attention and provoke people are often used purposefully as a way to solicit young people to join their online forums and communities. Trolling is deliberately putting out enraging comments to cause outrage. Young people may fall prey to these posts and engage in conversations where they are being manipulated or victimized, often without realizing it.</div><div> </div><div>Awareness, as a first step, can help us monitor our own reactions to posts more effectively; and it can also help us decide whether conversations are put out by safe and well-meaning groups rather than ones instigating hatred.</div></div><h3><br /></h3><h3>Beware of the legal actions against online bullying-</h3></div><div>Children and young people have the right to be protected from all forms of discrimination, both online and offline, as do adults. To know what constitutes a hateful post, it is also important to differentiate it from what is typically referred to as cyberbullying. Know these <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/5-indian-laws-you-must-know-to-fight.html" target="_blank">five Indian laws to fight against cyberbullying</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Social media can become a nuisance in your life if you do not know how to deal with the unprecedented situations arising from <a href="https://armchairjournal.com/social-media-stalkers-monsters-in-modern-disguise/" target="_blank">social media trolling</a> and hate speech. Follow these above tips to protect against such troubles in the future.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Contributed by <span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Avi Agnihotri</span></i></div></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-11754144400803699872022-10-06T16:14:00.008+05:302022-11-23T11:37:20.442+05:30Workplace Ostracism - Another Office Politics to be Seriously Dealt with<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLz8iwyvlMriM0otUdGbNmoyfUKu-pG_6rDbfOz3O6RdzXUiV_PLdBfFN-T-fdUiZ7j_iASWbqmg8sbPv3U7zEGYiDfjhk53q62badhpJuL6Skft2Gg31_z5Ow9ivuS-Kkq-NiNbFYf9SNfTagp5Ci-E2p6ZoC95IhyMMKdj23arjz1b7hsyE0CncBg/s1336/Workplace%20Ostracism.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1336" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLz8iwyvlMriM0otUdGbNmoyfUKu-pG_6rDbfOz3O6RdzXUiV_PLdBfFN-T-fdUiZ7j_iASWbqmg8sbPv3U7zEGYiDfjhk53q62badhpJuL6Skft2Gg31_z5Ow9ivuS-Kkq-NiNbFYf9SNfTagp5Ci-E2p6ZoC95IhyMMKdj23arjz1b7hsyE0CncBg/w400-h221/Workplace%20Ostracism.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">You cannot escape office politics if you are a working person. Whether it is a government office or a corporate firm, you are bound to face it everywhere, every day. These office politics often lead to negative experiences that leave deep scars in the mind and life of a person.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The persons facing toxic office politics often leave their jobs too quickly. The company loses valued employees without knowing the actual reasons behind their resignations. One such cause is the feeling of exclusion.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"></h2><gwofw><h2 style="text-align: left;">Feeling of Exclusion from Formal as well as Informal Relationships can lead to Disengagement in the Workplace</h2><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Have you ever witnessed a case where you are being excluded from major discussions at the office and then the information is also not passed on to you properly and on time? Well, this is a telltale sign of "<b>YOU</b>" being "<b>EXCLUDED</b>" from <b>Formal as well as Informal Relationships </b>in the office. This is also known as <b>workplace ostracism</b>. Here the targeted employee is excluded from or dismissed from a group either intentionally or unintentionally.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><b>Unintentional ostracism: - </b>This case arises due to affinity bias. It is our natural tendency to be drawn to people similar to ourselves. Your communication style may not be like others or your peers have different expectations for your working relationship. As a result, a distance or a barrier is created between your colleagues and you.</li><li><b>Intentional ostracism: - </b>The motive behind such behaviour on the part of the peers may be personal or professional. In most cases, they are premeditated. This intent may not be malicious all the time. </li></ul>To understand why such things happen, let me share the true story of Sheila (name changed to hide the identity of the victim), a middle-aged woman who started her new career in digital marketing at the age of 36. She was referred to a well-known IT firm in Kolkata and was employed as a fresher in the respective field. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheila was an introvert and shy person, who believes in good work culture and was dedicated towards her responsibilities. The first shocking experience that she had after joining the new company was that she was neither properly nor formally introduced to her colleagues who kept guessing about her designation and duties. The attitude of her team leader was so casual that she wondered whether she was actually hired for a respectable job or just casual labour.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheila's workload was not discussed in front of her. No scrum calls or daily office meetings were held where she would be included in discussions. Explicit responsibilities were thrust upon her every now and then and she found it very difficult to adjust her routine and deliver. Her colleagues would keep asking her, "Why are you here?", "What are your duties?". Sheila felt awkward and could not answer properly to their queries. As a result, her colleagues started doubting her importance in the team and soon started avoiding her.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For Sheila being left out came in different forms. It seemed that almost non of the social aspects of life at work are meant for Sheila. Whenever she would approach them with a friendly gesture, her colleagues would either snap back with lewd comments or just keep silent. While others socialized in their cliches, Sheila was not welcome to join in. Her team leader would go for lunch with her favourite team members, but Sheila was never invited. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">None of the team members ever asked for her phone number to be kept on their contact list. Even most of them avoided casual daily conversation with Sheila as much as they could. As I told you Sheila was an introvert and shy woman, and though she never craved close relationships with co-workers inside the office, she, like most of us, also has a baseline need to feel seen, welcome, and safe.</div></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: justify;">But why such workplace ostracism happened to Sheila?</h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first and foremost reason behind this is the <b>feeling of being threatened </b>by the sheer presence of a particular person.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Sheila was hired there was a major structural change going on in the digital marketing team of that company. Some are being promoted to a team leader position, and some are being demoted to mere content writers or senior graphic designers. Every one of the previously hired employees was feeling unsafe and uncomfortable. The constant fear of being replaced by another newcomer in the office may have played in the backdrop of Sheila being ostracised by fellow colleagues. Being referred by someone important in the team has also played behind. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have a tendency to doubt a referee in an office as the <b>human weapon</b> the management uses to backstab the targeted employees or as a replacement for them. Sheila's talents were used in such a manner that they created terror among the seniors. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheila was a multi-talented person having substantial experience in graphic designing, copywriting, and visualization. She was a trained digital marketer also. Though fresher in the field of marketing she had the intelligence to grab the subject quickly and deliver results in a short time. This characteristic trait of hers is something everyone in the office disliked. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whenever a copywriter failed to deliver a task, Sheila was summoned to do it. And she could do it perfectly! When a graphic designer was absent, she was asked to complete the unfinished work and to the dismay of her peers, she could do it even better than them. She was good at content writing, copywriting, visualization, and graphic designing, and a very quick thinker also. Aren't these enough to create a fear factor among her colleagues?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fear of being replaced by Sheila because of her talents, and the silent threats by the higher authority made the seniors feel uncomfortable and unsafe in the workplace. To prevent Sheila from getting the upper hand, they devised a method to <b>make her feel uncomfortable, threatened and unsafe! </b>And that method is '<b>to exclude Sheila from everything and also anything that might help her thrive</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h3>How does workplace ostracism affect a victim?</h3><div><br /></div><div>The emotional effects of workplace ostracism can be severe. Humans are social beings. They like to get involved in anything happening around them. Even a <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/key-to-happiness-for-introverts.html" target="_blank">shy and introvert person</a> may become talkative if she finds herself among like-minded people. Exclusion brings loneliness, anger and shame that take a toll on the mental health of the person who is being ostracised. There are many instances where an ostracised person is seen committing suicide for not being able to bear the humiliation and mental agony.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many victims respond to such a situation by avoidance, absenteeism and hostility. Sheila first resorted to avoidance. She concentrated more on improving her quality of work, hoping her managers would like her work and reward her duly. When she succeeded in doing so, her colleagues became doubly threatened by her success and increased the rate of 'torture by exclusion'. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People who feel excluded at the workplace are significantly more likely to quit their jobs. Sheila did the same after one and a half years. Workplace ostracism gave her a profound psychological blow that needed to be taken care of immediately. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h3 style="text-align: left;">Why can't the victim of workplace ostracism complain about such misbehaviour?</h3><div><br /></div><div>Victims of exclusion at workplaces simply can't complain because of the following reasons: - </div><div><ul><li>Workplace ostracism mainly consists of verbal insults or physical gestures in a disguised and invisible manner that seems threatening.</li><li>Since most of the time, it is intentional that the complaints of the victims were ignored by co-workers or supervisors.</li><li>Very little or no evidence to document the unfair treatment or harassment at work could be found</li></ul><div>When Sheila finally complained about the misbehaviour of her colleagues, she was humiliated by her team leader in front of the whole office who called her psychologically deranged and made her sit away from other team members, <a href="https://armchairjournal.com/isolation-the-worst-weapon-of-office-coworkers/" target="_blank">isolated and alone</a>, facing the bare wall with everyone laughing at her back.</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div><br /></div><h3>How can workplace ostracism be dealt with?</h3><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many victims of workplace ostracism end up in mental hospitals or at home. They shy away from society in order to avoid more such unpleasant incidents in their life. But Sheila didn't do so. She kept on working in various companies with full vigour. But this time she was extra cautious. She took precautionary steps to deal with the matter. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ol><li><b>Assessing the situation well: -</b> Whenever <a href="https://dictionary.apa.org/ostracism" target="_blank">ostracism</a> occurred Sheila would care to judge the situation. She would like to find out whether it is a one-time experience or a persistent problem to be reported. </li><li><b>Avoiding the co-workers: - </b>Sheila avoids confronting co-workers who misbehave with her. </li><li><b>Keeping records of misbehaviour: - </b>She kept records of each and every insulting behaviour she faced and reported directly to HR. This solved her problems on time. </li><li><b>Maintaining professionalism: - </b>Sheila now hardly pays attention to deliberate disregard of co-workers and maintains her professionalism.</li><li><b>Divulging into other activities: - </b>To keep herself away from the negative effects of workplace ostracism, Sheila keeps herself engaged in those activities that make her feel happy and satisfied. </li><li><b>Finding a mentor: - </b>Whenever Sheila faces any serious problems in the workplace, she takes the help of a mentor who guides her well to overcome the situation.</li></ol><div>Instead of bowing out of the situation, try to understand the root cause behind it, deal with it and solve it with the help of a good mediator. Workplace ostracism can then be avoided and every co-worker will feel safe working. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></gwofw><div></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-85441624773385574322021-04-10T12:04:00.011+05:302022-11-23T12:11:53.857+05:30Present Issues and Trends in Health Psychology<p style="text-align: justify;">Health psychology implies the biopsychosocial factors affecting health. Health psychologists believe that social and psychological factors freely influence our physical health. Thus, psychological science is adapted to promote a healthy mind to cure and prevent illness. The respective piece is a curtain-raiser to the vast field of health psychology proceed reading to explore more about the present issues and trends in health psychology.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbFGznlvcEo/YHFG1WC8oXI/AAAAAAAAIiw/yNFfUY0DHVYhgHBwIcnJMW4n1SOKiW29gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/health%2Bpsychologists.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbFGznlvcEo/YHFG1WC8oXI/AAAAAAAAIiw/yNFfUY0DHVYhgHBwIcnJMW4n1SOKiW29gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/health%2Bpsychologists.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Introduction to the world of health psychology</h2><p style="text-align: justify;">Health psychology encourages people to indulge in health betterment and prevent illness. Health psychologist studies the patient's psychology in illness and health care. Society and negative mental health, hereditary illness, and behavioural issues can hurt patients who are suffering from psychological health problems. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For ease, health psychology can also be termed medical psychology and behavioural medicine. In the 1970s the domain of health psychology got originated. Today, the advancement of health psychology has increased the life expectancy of patients suffering from chronic diseases. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Biopsychosocial model treatment was derived from George Engel in 1977. The ideology was to enlighten people that a person's medical condition is besieged by psychological and social factors too, along with biological factors.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Role of health psychologists</h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Health psychologists are medical practitioners who apply their knowledge in the field of psychology to promote a positive lifestyle and health and analyze the factors impacting the patient's well-being.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Health psychologists focus on comprehending the patient's reactions and recovery ability over the illness. Currently, health psychologists are striving for the enhancement of the health care system and governmental health care policy.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Health psychologists focus on-</h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Recognizing the patient's behaviour</li><li>Encouraging positive lifestyle</li><li>Determining the ability to cope with the treatment and healing from the illness.</li><li>Investigating the behavioural attributes among the medical professionals and the patient. </li><li>Observing the psychological impact of illness on the patients and their families.</li></ul><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Health psychology can cure the patients </h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Our psyche and physique are interconnected, thus the diagnosis of a health psychology specialist may involve an examination of the patient's emotional and behavioural attributes. Relying on the health psychologist or the therapists would be advisable. Because they may educate the sufferers and their families about the factors impacting their well-being. Health psychology provides ailments by relieving them from intoxication or smoking; chronic disease; weight, stress, pain; etc.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Application of biopsychosocial model treatment</h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Health psychology has adopted a biopsychosocial model of treatment. To be precise, the psychosocial method is an assortment of biological, psychological, and social factors. Which enables the well-being of the patient. The physiotherapists incorporate professional conclusions with ethical beliefs to ensure proper treatment of the patient. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The biopsychosocial model is commonly adopted in chronic pain as the pain is pathophysiological as it can not be alone classified into biological, psychological, or social. The physiotherapist integrates psychological and physical treatment to cure the disease to which the patient is subjective.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In earlier times, people used to die due to <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/04/covid-19-clear-warning-that-todays.html" target="_blank">epidemics</a>, starvation old age, etc. But now people are meeting their end sooner than expected. The cause of death has altered with time. Now, people mostly die due to chronic disease, unhealthy lifestyles, etc., which have hazardous impacts on one's life. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The biopsychosocial model applied in health psychology assists the patients in controlling their own emotional and behavioural attributes to lead a positive and disease-free lifestyle. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So basically, the spirited field of health psychology is entirely concerned about the well-being of the sufferer and their families by leaving a glimmer of optimistic impact on them.</p><p> </p>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-87929438242427769112020-08-11T18:00:00.006+05:302022-10-06T18:51:13.999+05:30Profit doesn't come in monetary terms only<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ayHGA5YTFlM/XzKOMNFeq0I/AAAAAAAAH4A/E5To9bcfOxY5Yz65H7hlNmf6YujeenLaACLcBGAsYHQ/s1880/pexels-photo-3184338.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1253" data-original-width="1880" height="342" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ayHGA5YTFlM/XzKOMNFeq0I/AAAAAAAAH4A/E5To9bcfOxY5Yz65H7hlNmf6YujeenLaACLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h342/pexels-photo-3184338.jpeg" width="512" /></span></a></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i>Continued from part 3: <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/08/claustrophobic-environment-can-take.html" target="_blank">Claustrophobic Environment can take a Toll on the Health of an Employee </a></i></p><p>When I analyzed the situation, I faced in my workplace I came up with these few points:-</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>1. Change the age-old practice of Restriction</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The observation:-</span> </b>The age-old practice of keeping employees engaged in one particular domain of work for a long time creates a feeling of dissatisfaction and frustration among the workers. In this situation, if a newcomer comes and asks for more, the seniors get concerned. The management tries not to offend the seniors by giving the new employee the required exposure that would enhance his/her skills.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The solution:-</span> </b>Companies should arrange for new pieces of training at regular intervals to keep the employees engaged, up-to-date, and interested in their work. When seniors get to know new things they will invariably allow their juniors to do the same. This type of culture is seldom nurtured here.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>2. There should be a Balanced Distribution of Work</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>The observation:-</b> </span>Because of no or little exposure to new things in office work, many seniors start feeling less interested in their office assignments and start indulging in entertaining activities to keep their minds fresh and happy. Of course, these are necessary. But not at the cost of precious working hours. If they skip work or shift burdens to their juniors, the pressure on the later increases and often leads to an unbalanced work distribution system. The junior loathes under pressure while the senior takes day-offs.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The solution:-</span> </b>There should be a tight evaluation system regarding this. However, even this system can be flawed if favoritism is rampant among the management.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>3. The salary structure should be standardized based on previous experiences</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The observation:-</span></b> It is often seen that when a candidate switches over to another career path he/she is usually offered less what he/she used to get from his previous domain of work. This is understandable as the candidate is a newcomer to the field and the salary will be accordingly. But, if a company is hiring the candidate with the intention to use his/her previous experiences in the present domain also then he/she deserves a better salary. After all, why should a person be compelled to work in the same previous domain while his/her designation is something else?</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>The solution: -</b> </span>If a company is hiring a candidate with the intention to extract services based on his/her previous experiences, then they should pay at least the last drawn salary of the person. It would be fair to do this instead of baffling the candidate.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>4. Keep an eye on the progress of the fresher</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The observation: -</span></b> This is supposed to be done by the managers/team leads of the department. But often even after the good performance, a candidate may get sided because of favoritism and other reasons.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The solution: - </span></b>There should also be a system to evaluate the progress of the candidate from the HRs end to see whether the candidate is satisfied with the workplace culture, exposure he/she is getting, and the skill sets he/she has developed over the time.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>5. Create a workplace ambiance that is conducive</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The observation:- </span></b>People with claustrophobia don't like congested workplaces. This makes them unhappy, unproductive, and panicky. Unhappy and unproductive, disengaged employees are unlikely to make positive contributions and their negativity tends to spread at an alarming rate.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">An employee spends 9 hours or more of their day inside the office premise. They sit there for hours, combining creativity and intelligence to produce results for their employers. They need a workplace environment that is conducive in order to create something unique and add value to the production. Hence, the ambiance of the physical workplaces, be it government or corporate, plays a significant role in an employee’s life.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The solution:-</span> </b>To bring an attitudinal shift in the way people work an employer must pay heed to certain aspects of <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/make-your-work-space-livelier-with-these-simple-decor-tips.html" target="_blank">office ambiance</a>. Employees who enjoy and like the environments they are a part of will be more engaged, productive, happy, and healthy.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>6. There should be ways to identify wrongdoers</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The observation: </span>- </b>Many a time some wrongdoing by the seniors inside the office premise remain hushed up and juniors are blamed for that. Old management often keeps certain things regarding their favorite workers under the carpet in order to keep their records clean. This gives a wrong notion about the managers, team leads, and the whole system to the juniors.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span>The solution:- </span></b>A strict HR policy should be implemented to identify such problems, problem creators, and ways to eradicate them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><b><span>Conclusion:-</span></b></p><p>To the employers:-</p><p></p><blockquote><span>In a business profit doesn't come in monetary terms only...they come in intangible humanitarian context also.</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">People don't just join your company and come to your offices to do assignments to get paid. They spend a considerable amount of time inside the office premise. They build a bond among themselves which actually works between them and leads to higher productivity. Most of them come with the dream of building a successful career, and not to get disappointed or demoralized. Not even one such disappointed employee be there in your list.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">An employer should give his/her employees an enjoyable work environment, let them contribute happily and spontaneously to your company, and let them build their career.</p>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-42948697938967041172020-08-07T17:42:00.003+05:302022-10-06T18:52:33.032+05:30Claustrophobic Environment can take a Toll on the Health of an Employee<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CSFMqhOVq_w/XzKMRVrj2YI/AAAAAAAAH3s/Lw0SUo6WYRMvVONDEpCIDj5cxywBQHHywCLcBGAsYHQ/s340/cramped-office.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="340" height="351" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CSFMqhOVq_w/XzKMRVrj2YI/AAAAAAAAH3s/Lw0SUo6WYRMvVONDEpCIDj5cxywBQHHywCLcBGAsYHQ/w425-h351/cramped-office.jpg" width="425" /></span></a></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i>Continued from Part 2: <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/08/self-teaching-was-way-to-attain-my.html" target="_blank">Self-Teaching was a Way to Attain My Moksha</a></i></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>Claustrophobic Environment took a Toll on My Health</span></h3><p>The office premise where I used to work had a peculiar structure. The office space is divided into a two-storeyed one by using a false ceiling and floor to make way for more employees.</p><p>Owners of such companies surely love saving money! Even though they make crores of rupees at the end of the day, spending money after employee safety and comfort is a trivial matter to them.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p>Windows are forcefully closed to make way for ACs. This reduced the air circulation inside the room leading to an uncomfortable smelly atmosphere.</p><p>Being a highly claustrophobic person I was unable to sit comfortably and concentrate on my work inside that office premise that had a low ceiling, no windows, and smelled disgustingly with a powerful AC atop my head.</p><p>Such a congested environment gives me a panic attack, which, unfortunately, if I had to bear for a long time, affects my health.</p><p>Many of my colleagues were least bothered about who's working behind their backs and made noises. Too much noise and jostling and pushing at the back in that small sitting area created disturbances to me while I was working.</p><p>Unable to work inside the office premise, I had to carry away my works at home and I spent nights after nights without sleep to complete them on time. </p><p>I hardly got time to rest my brain and my body, eat, and drink properly. The result was obvious. My health started failing at the end of the term.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span>My salary increased, but my fate never changed</span></h3><p>Finally, at the end of the term, the evaluation was done and my salary was increased from 8K in hand to 11K in hand but my domain did not change. I once again started giving the same services day after day.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SnQZtub7JD4/XzKMufZitaI/AAAAAAAAH30/oH5oQNJWVxYnYqDuKvJNaP4kjrrJ6GFrACLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/woman-sitting-on-chair-while-leaning-on-laptop-3791136%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="342" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SnQZtub7JD4/XzKMufZitaI/AAAAAAAAH30/oH5oQNJWVxYnYqDuKvJNaP4kjrrJ6GFrACLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h342/woman-sitting-on-chair-while-leaning-on-laptop-3791136%2B1.jpg" width="512" /></span></a></div><p>By then I was totally shattered from inside. But that was not the end. More surprises waited for me.</p><p>I had already started looking for a new job in the digital marketing field. Lack of practical knowledge from that reputed IT firm affected my career growth drastically.</p><p>Many of my applications were turned down with a note that I had little or no experience in SEO or PPC. Some laughed at me saying I was trying to leave the reputed IT firm too early. But none of them gave any hint of hope.</p><p>I never got a good job while I was in and after I left the reputed IT firm. I tried to fight back by starting from scratch once again. I just saw all my efforts to build my career going to drain as I was not only fighting with my failed career but also with a failed health.</p><p>I worked hard for 15 years to build my career and increase my skill set one by one by taking courses with my hard-earned money and teaching myself. I saw all my efforts gone POOF on the air in just one and a half years.</p><p><i>Continued to Part 4: <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/08/profit-doesnt-come-in-monetary-terms.html" target="_blank">Profit doesn't come in monetary terms only</a></i></p>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-82524409429693218372020-08-05T17:29:00.002+05:302020-08-11T17:53:21.698+05:30Self-Teaching was a Way to Attain My Moksha<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gXfWjMQSVMQ/XzKIKszBZpI/AAAAAAAAH3g/rtPmqdFs9ywbSW3qLNnnT8eEqiwDi8VWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/focused-woman-using-laptop-while-attending-online-webinar-4492189.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="288" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gXfWjMQSVMQ/XzKIKszBZpI/AAAAAAAAH3g/rtPmqdFs9ywbSW3qLNnnT8eEqiwDi8VWwCLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h288/focused-woman-using-laptop-while-attending-online-webinar-4492189.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Continued from Part 1: <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/07/was-your-manager-competent-enough-to.html" target="_blank">Was your manager competent enough to guide you in building your career?</a></i></p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Self-Teaching was a Way to Attain My Moksha</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Being a student of Eco-Stats-Maths and creative in nature I always wanted to work in a data-driven field related to advertising. Unfortunately, I never got any guru to guide me on my career path. I am a self-taught person who believed in rigorous self-teaching as a way to attain my moksha. I rigorously self-trained myself in these so that I could get a suitable job in the digital marketing field.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I took a four-year course in commercial and visual art from an Art College and then trained myself in Web designing and Multimedia. All these to make me understand the trade and how the whole thing works.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;">I completed my certification in digital marketing from an Academy, the study wing of a reputed IT firm in my city. After getting a job offer, I joined the same reputed IT firm with the dream of building my career in digital marketing only to find that I was befooled. I watched my dreams getting shattered day after day, month after month while working there. </p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">My Salary was the Cheapest</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">My salary at this reputed IT firm was only 8K in hand. Prior to that when I was in the advertising field for 4 years and drew a salary of 12K in hand.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I agreed to join the reputed IT firm at that cheap salary rate believing I will get exposure to the several new fields of digital marketing as I was not getting that in my then-current company, who used my designing skills at a cheap rate to benefit themselves. But alas! I found the same intention here also.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was purposefully made to work in the areas of designing, visualization, and copywriting which I used to do in the advertising agencies before. I did not join the reputed IT firm for this purpose! I mean why should I be made to work in the same fields in which I had more than 4 years of experience and that too at a higher salary rate and not that meager amount of 8K in hand at the reputed IT firm I served. This though rose to 11K eventually but at a greater cost, I could imagine.</p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">A Trainee Digital Marketer was Made to Work as a Substitute Designer</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">I just could not imagine how a DM department can use a trained digital marketer as a substitute designer? I spent so much time and money to get trained by them and that to get exploited by the same people!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A substantial amount of my time was wasted searching for images for my senior graphic designer. Isn't it weird work?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Instead, I would have spent the time more in getting practical exposure in the technical areas of digital marketing comprising the whole of SEO-SMM-PPC.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I often took the risk of overworking as my senior designer was found either overburdened with his assignments or absent due to illness or travel or spending time gossiping with other colleagues.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I felt some kind of a joke being played with me. Almost every time some designer was absent in the department I was asked to do his pending works. This way I started losing focus. Or rather, I would say the management purposefully did this to keep me away from the main focus areas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Domain Changing was Strictly Prohibited</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Domain shifting was strictly not allowed to anyone in that department. A candidate chosen for a particular job had to carry on with his/her duties even though the person has got skills in others. Such practices may lead to creating specialized persons in specific fields but to a newcomer like me who wants to learn the whole trade, it is of no good.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A few senior colleagues of mine complained the same and I understood that such things are done purposefully to keep certain enthusiastic and able employees out of reach from the techniques of the trade lest they become more skilled and powerful and take away the seats of the less competent ones.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since this domain shift was not allowed there in this reputed IT firm it kept me out of practical knowledge regarding SEO and PPC and paid advertising in SMM.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Several requests to change my domain went in vain. I went on giving services dedicatedly with a hopeful mind that one day my fate will change which unfortunately never did.</p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Too Much Work Pressure to Keep Things away from Reach</span></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">I toiled day and night to make my manager and team leader happy with my services with the hope that maybe one day I will get the required exposure or some kind encouraging words from them. But no, there was practically nothing for me even after one and a half year of non-stop exhaustive service that took a heavy toll on my physical and my mental health.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I requested once again for the exposure they started putting more work pressure to keep me engaged in more design-related works.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was an indication to me that they are trying to show me the door in this way.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Continued to Part 3: <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/08/claustrophobic-environment-can-take.html" target="_blank">Claustrophobic Environment can take a Toll on the Health of an Employee</a></i></p>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-30420749889059785622020-07-17T16:25:00.006+05:302020-08-11T17:33:27.210+05:30Was your manager competent enough to guide you in building your career?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2PEWijoNoMc/XzKEvEQuTgI/AAAAAAAAH3U/9pyiFsXUAhwRiQErK4EaZoR6fDpAsrKBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/woman-holding-six-polished-stones-1147946%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="342" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2PEWijoNoMc/XzKEvEQuTgI/AAAAAAAAH3U/9pyiFsXUAhwRiQErK4EaZoR6fDpAsrKBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h342/woman-holding-six-polished-stones-1147946%2B1.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>I have had a few weird and unusual experiences in my life, especially, in the workplace. Those experiences compelled me to wonder about the work ethics that are followed in these places as many of such practices adversely affected my career as well as others too.</div><div><br /></div><div>But before beginning what I endured let's read a story first:-</div></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">The Story of a gem-cutter</span></h3><div><div><br /></div><div>Once upon a time, there was a gem-cutter who was not so skilled in his trade. But he was a favorite of his master.</div><div><br /></div><div>One day his master gave him a very precious stone to cut into a beautiful piece of jewel. The gem-cutter could not do it properly. He broke it into several pieces.</div><div><br /></div><div>His master realized his mistakes and soon replaced him with a skilled one. The new gem-cutter collected the pieces of this broken gem and cut each one of them beautifully. They are now smaller in size but they shone brilliantly.</div><div><br /></div><div>The mistake done by the jewel shop owner was that he relied on somebody based on favoritism and not on the skills he possessed to perform a task and this led to the disastrous result.</div></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Managers and Team Leaders are The Gem-cutters in our Life</span></h3><div><br /></div><div>Shaping our career is just like cutting the gemstone and giving it a proper shape and size that will bring out the brilliance inside. It will shine always and will never lose its luster even when it has become an antique. A good career path will eventually bring you success and you will shine in your field of work always. But if your career does not get the boost, the support it needs at the right time, it will nosedive under the wrong guidance and will eventually shatter like the broken gemstone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let the master of this story be replaced by the owner of a company. Now replace the stone with a highly motivated and skilled employee, the unskilled gem-cutter with a bad manager, and the skilled gem-cutter with a good manager. Did you find any similarity in the experiences you have in your life? Some of you probably have.</div><div><blockquote><span style="color: #e69138;">A good team leader will always help you grow in your career. But a bad manager can take good staff and destroy it, causing the best employees to flee and the remainder to lose all motivation.</span></blockquote></div><div><div>I have often seen this happen in offices where I worked and heard in cases of my friends. Bad management or leadership is widespread in our country and most companies appoint managers who adopt unfair means to manage teams. Company CEOs hardly pay any attention to whatever politics is being played in a team under an incapable manager unless and until they face a drop in productivity. By the time they find out, many of the good employees have already left the company or have lost the motivation to work hard.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's tough to judge some of the managers whom I have encountered in my life. But now, as the time has come to look back and see how I have excelled in my career under all of these managers and team leaders, whether I have become a brilliantly shining jewel or some broken useless pieces of a gemstone, I do need to evaluate honestly.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Continued to Part 2: <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/08/self-teaching-was-way-to-attain-my.html" target="_blank">Self-Teaching was a Way to Attain My Moksha</a></i></div></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-8791538735277676762020-07-12T10:11:00.003+05:302020-07-12T10:14:28.609+05:30Three Signs Your Manager Demonstrates Toxic Behavior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YhSSwzmGFe4/XwqSeOM8nqI/AAAAAAAAHwM/Tud7oKrqQT80M97d5NIzkmo1jDiFeKYQACLcBGAsYHQ/s1880/pexels-photo-3760790.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1253" data-original-width="1880" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YhSSwzmGFe4/XwqSeOM8nqI/AAAAAAAAHwM/Tud7oKrqQT80M97d5NIzkmo1jDiFeKYQACLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h333/pexels-photo-3760790.jpeg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you first leave the professional world, you may want to become a good employee and do everything your boss tells you. But how do you know that your workplace and employer are toxic?</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are three ways you can say whether your boss is poisonous, or not:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">1. Nonprofit Behavior: </font></b>Nonprofit behavior at work can include gossip, trying to be "good", lacking interest, and not setting a good example for their subordinates. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">If a manager has no instructions and decorum to show self-control and treat people honestly and with respect, they can become a toxic manager.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While interviewing for a job, you can judge in advance. View this as a warning sign of immorality in casual conversations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">2. Unsupportive: </font></b>Being unsupportive can include a lack of growth and progress, there is no guarantee, no credit to their employees, they will not take responsibility for any shortcomings, etc. If a leader is not motivated to lead, then positive attitudes are not expected of those who listen. The toxic employer jumps into work, pulls in all day, and gives the impression that life is a top priority. A toxic official does not promote a culture of sharing ideas, and that is a regime that does not want to work for a lifetime. They are very bad leaders and do not focus on the growth of the employees or the organization.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">3. Micro-managing: </font></b>Micro-managing can include a tendency to distrust employees, work hard, take everything personally, and always try to tell employees, without giving them too little freedom. The employer who always stands at your shoulder or insists on fixing the minute details in your work is a <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/how-micro-management-can-destroy-entire-team.html" target="_blank">micro-manager and can be very toxic</a>. But Micro-managing sinks the imagination and creates a dense atmosphere. You may feel that your supervisor is not sure that you will complete the tasks or that you will not be able to do anything that comes to the standard. This may lead to chronic depression, workplace dissatisfaction, and may promote a very bad work environment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Micromanaging can be disruptive, it promotes distrust and undermines esteem. It is considered as a bad form of leadership. When your employer comes from earlier than you and lasts longer than you, it can create a toxic atmosphere for everyone. Although these executives do not believe their subordinates are amazing or the work actually has to be done this way, it can have serious consequences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Conclusion</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An incompetent leader should not be dangerous. Some people simply lack basic leadership skills, such as network communication.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But toxic leaders do harm to others. To maintain self-control, they use fear and intimidation. They discourage staff and intimidate people as a means of achieving consensus.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, several organizations, focusing on short-term results, are showing <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/want-to-become-successful-team-leader.html" target="_blank">leadership</a> effectiveness. However, toxic managers can also make short term shifts look better.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Threats and intimidation can lead workers to work longer and more active hours - at first. But as employers' toxic habits continue, workers lose their productivity and productivity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;"><p style="margin: 0px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p></div><div><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p data-blogger-escaped-style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" style="margin: 0px;"><font data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: large;" size="5">Author Bio:</font></p></div></div><p class="separator" data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="clear: both; text-align: center;" data-blogger-escaped-style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;" data-blogger-escaped-style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;" href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Hc0aKvt4VU/XunY0uLtWKI/AAAAAAAAHTQ/zgQPjlhddVMTczNRQUz4_WBm59Co5lyEgCK4BGAsYHg/s350/Shivang%2BSaxena.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-data-original-height="350" data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-data-original-width="250" data-blogger-escaped-style="cursor: move;" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Hc0aKvt4VU/XunY0uLtWKI/AAAAAAAAHTQ/zgQPjlhddVMTczNRQUz4_WBm59Co5lyEgCK4BGAsYHg/w143-h200/Shivang%2BSaxena.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="143" /></a></p><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p data-blogger-escaped-style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" style="margin: 0px;">Name: Shivang Saxena</p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p data-blogger-escaped-style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-trbidi="on" dir="ltr"><div data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p data-blogger-escaped-style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" style="margin: 0px;">A 22-year-old, writer-entrepreneur based in India, who prefers to tell stories and write about everything with a touch of life. He has been helping startups and technologies with their content strategies. He's currently working on his book named "Too Many Thoughts, Too Much life".</p><p data-blogger-escaped-style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" style="margin: 0px;">Visit his blog <a data-blogger-escaped-data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://thevagabondsworld.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">thevagabondsworld.wordpress.com</a></p></div></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0px;"><br data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: justify;" /></p></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-24188225923355383272020-07-05T12:01:00.010+05:302022-11-23T12:02:07.390+05:30When agency people could not find anything to undermine my merit, they looked for personality disorders.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few years back, Sheila got a job as a social media executive in a reputed IT firm. Sheila was chosen to work for them after successfully completing a course in digital marketing from an institution run by the same company. Sheila was practically thrilled at first, but soon realized she had made a mistake. </div>
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Being a creative-minded person Sheila took a risk of training herself in commercial art even after completing post-graduation in Economics from a reputed university. At the time when all her friends have established themselves in their career paths, Sheila was still struggling to stand on her feet. Yet, she has not given up.</div>
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Before joining this new company, Sheila was working as an advertisement professional and had already gained a fairly good level of experience (a total of 4 years) as a visualizer-cum-copywriter-cum-designer. Her last drawn salary was 12K in hand. After 7 months of gap due to an accident, she was compelled to accept a meagre salary of 8K in hand in this new company. Sheila had no choice, as she needed a job badly to finance her medical expenses.</div>
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Because of her experiences in advertisement agencies, Sheila was given the task of helping her senior designer with his assignments. She had to do visualization and make him design the posts accordingly, find the right images for him so that he can do the designs, and also do the pending works of him whenever he took leave.</div>
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Apart from that, Sheila had to write tests for social media posts, design social media posts, conceptualize new campaigns for each and every project that came, check the social media content of other contributing content writers in her team, plan, distribute and execute the assignments, etc. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes she was also given the assignments of other teams too when their designer or copywriter was absent. Practically Sheila was working 24x7. But neither she complained nor did she give up. A salary of 8K was too little to motivate anybody in this field to work in this manner. But she did so to gain experience, improve her skills, and increase the salary to a level that is considered a 'standard'.</div>
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When Sheila started excelling in my work, her seniors got frightened. They would devise peculiar plans to distract her from my work. Plans like making noise while she was working, avoiding her when she was talking to them regarding work or any kind of normal discussion, hardly discussing with her about campaign ideation, etc. were executed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was often observed that her senior designer would spend time gossiping with others. This led to a loss of time and workload used to build up. Sheila started feeling the pressure. Taking leaves without informing her was another plan devised by her designer. This would put her in an awkward position when time for prompt delivery was needed. All Sheila had to do was speed up my service and do two different types of work parallelly. </div>
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This resulted in both physical and mental exhaustion. After around one year Sheila started to realize that they were deliberately making her feel exhausted in this manner so that she feel the compulsion to put down her resignation. Sheila hardly took leaves to relax as she observed that her team lead was not in favour of that before she completed the one-year cycle. But the team lead allowed the other designer to take leaves often. This was nothing but to build up more and more pressure on Sheila. Yet, she had not given up.</div>
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When they could not find any other means to deter her from her dedication and the quality of work she delivered, they started irritating her in every possible means so that she feels uncomfortable and lose her temper and they could prove she has a personality disorder. And that Sheila is a rude person, a misfit for that team, and incapable of handling certain situations. Yet, Sheila did not give up.</div>
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Her salary rose to 11K in hand after one year. But by that time Sheila felt she need a break and some fresh new types of work. She requested her team lead to consider her for new types of assignments like SEO works and PPC works so that she could learn and deliver more. The leader refused several times. This broke her heart.</div>
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You know when you give so much to your team and your team lead refuses to allow you to excel, things definitely go wrong in your mind. Sheila started feeling that she was being fooled and exploited by each and everyone in the team. And then there was that designer who deliberately created a ruckus over a heated exchange of words. He complained about Sheila calling her rude. All were got up cases. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then on a fruitful day, things got worse. A group of content writers deliberately disturbed her during work by making noise. She complained to the team leader who took it as an opportunity to disgrace her in front of others. A short temper loss and an argument with her team leader landed Sheila in a situation where her team leader called her "a psycho" in front of others. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheila was purposefully made to sit in a corner of another room, away from my team, alone, for the rest of the month. By that time Sheila had already put down her resignation when she understood she had nothing to gain from this team and the company.<br />
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So much of her efforts went to the gutter. Her dedication, experience level, eagerness to work hard, and her output quality, were not acceptable to agency people like these. To them what matters is the level of bootlicking and submissiveness one <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/tips-for-first-time-office-bearers.html" target="_blank">new office bearer</a> shows to them. They are afraid of good, and ambitious workers. Why not! Their own lack of qualification and competitiveness would thus get revealed by people like us.</div>
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Most of the agency people here don't like improving their skills in what they have been appointed but improving their skills in office politics for certain. When they could compete with one they collectively devise plans to destroy the person's career by deliberately proving he/she is unworthy in the eyes of the higher authority. </div>
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সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-4977684586716648322020-06-30T16:05:00.002+05:302020-06-30T16:05:00.325+05:30Nepotism In India<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dUrpmda9VeE/Xvcm4C9WGDI/AAAAAAAAHgA/4MB6rmpAQpY7oxZuw1V0pBmmTxEXnAd7wCK4BGAsYHg/s626/freepik-nepotism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="626" height="281" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dUrpmda9VeE/Xvcm4C9WGDI/AAAAAAAAHgA/4MB6rmpAQpY7oxZuw1V0pBmmTxEXnAd7wCK4BGAsYHg/w500-h281/freepik-nepotism.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Animosity towards nepotism has again revived due to the untimely demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a vivid and successful Bollywood star. People were taken back when they got to know about this tragedy. Who knew someone who had it all was going through so much that the only choice he had was to take his life. Such is the condition of the industry that is Bollywood. This malady is for the outsiders who have no acting or film industry links. This is not limited in Bollywood but also in almost all areas of importance.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#f4a900" size="5">What is nepotism?</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let's get well associated with the term "nepotism". It's the practice of giving favour or advantage to your kin or children in the field you work. Like the saying " the son of the king becomes the king" this rule is unjustified and the more talented and worthy people are not given equal opportunities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This system is quite prevalent in Bollywood and until recently no one was opposing it. This hereditary aspect of the Indian industry has created boundaries for outsiders. Film making, politics, etc. have become a family business. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#f4a900" size="5">How did nepotism originate in India?</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did you know there was no such thing as nepotism for the first few decades after Indian independence? But families like the Nehru's had strong grips in this politics. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also in the early 1980s, many vintage actors and directors started launching their sons. New actors like Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, and more were launched by their fathers. This began nepotism in Bollywood </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nepotism is widespread in politics, judiciary, company, and in the film enterprise. It goes on even in sacred circles, arts, enterprise, and other types of institutions </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, people admired that kids of the parent followed the same path. So their kids were an instant after them. The chances of getting into any industry were getting bleak. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#f4a900" size="5">Impact of Nepotism</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You may think that there can't be many ill consequences due to nepotism but these points will prove you wrong.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ol><li>Many members of Parliament and various Legislative Assemblies have a generations-long inheritance of nepotic allotment of communities to their kin. This does not ensure the all-round development of the area as the chosen ones did not work hard to get the position.<br /><br /></li><li>Real talents are neglected and not given impetus. People will choose to watch a star kid with poor acting skills whereas the competent actors are not given the chance. This just deteriorates the quality of films that are made. That's the reason why even after being the largest producer of movies, India still can't get enough International awards for its movies.<br /><br /></li><li>Several magistrates and advocates of the High courts and the Supreme Court are alleged to be appointed by practicing casteism, nepotism, and favouritism, mostly because the Supreme Court and the High Courts use a partial undemocratic nomination process named as Collegium.<br /><br /></li><li>Movies with a good plot and better actors are not making as much as the movies starring the star actors. People generally choose entertaining movies with item dance and demeaning jokes over quality content. 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Instances involving Stuart Binny, Rohan Gavaskar, and very recently Sachin Tendulkar account for the situation. Home minister Amit Shah's son was elected as BCCI secretary.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#f4a900" size="5">Nepotism in Business </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bajaj family is associated with the Birla household which itself has pertained to the Biyani family by marriage. The Kapoor families and many other Indian movie actors have brought their pupils into the movie industry with their approvals and impact.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The biggest industry is no different. Reliance industries will be handed over to the son of Mukesh Ambani. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#f4a900" size="5">Nepotism in politics</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indian Politics has encouraged the maximum of nepotism, despite being a <a href="https://armchairjournal.com/democracy-fails-where-political-ignorance-is-bliss/" target="_blank">democratic nation</a>. Right from Motilal Nehru to Rahul Gandhi (Congress Party), India has been dictated by a dynasty of politicians. Also, that, of course, is on the too when it comes to nepotism in Indian politics, other examples of the Samajwadi Party (oversaw and constructed by Mulayam Yadav and later succeeded by his son Akhilesh Yadav) is another example of nepotism. In Maharashtra, the Thackeray’s have retained their domination from Balasaheb to Uddhav Thackeray. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Data proves that since 1999, the Congress has had 36 dynastic MPs appointed to the Parliament, with the BJP with 31 dynastic MPs who are not behind the Congress.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#f4a900" size="5">Is nepotism damaging India's growth?</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It has a profound negative impact. Nowadays nepotism is not only growing in the government sector but also in the private sector as well. India is still considered a developing nation, many Indians are the first people in their whole generation who want to start a new career to build a better future. So many people are getting out in the world in hope of grabbing opportunities and is trying to make his or her name in the external community by getting some chances for success to break the brutal cycle of poverty which our forefather had to encounter throughout their life. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But it is very hurtful for meriting individual when he has to suffer from discrimination because of biased nepotism in every realm of life. Before getting into corporate society no one had the idea that nepotism is not limited only in government offices but after glimpsing this in the corporate world many people have lost the will to live.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although some enormous corporates recruiters will not even care to read your resume if you don't have any good source to aid your appointment. This is the brutal truth. 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He has been helping startups and technologies with their content strategies. He's currently working on his book named "Too Many Thoughts, Too Much life".</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Visit his blog <a data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" href="https://thevagabondsworld.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">thevagabondsworld.wordpress.com</a></p></div></div></div><div><br style="text-align: justify;" /></div>সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006521003163510785.post-50278472510816923952020-06-29T10:30:00.000+05:302020-06-29T10:30:02.721+05:30Growing Up As Heather - Part 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After Buff passed away Emily and Kotton became friends. Watching them playing outside just made my day better. There was not a moment that we did not laugh. Kotton would get Emily in trouble for running through Debbie’s flowers! There was one time where we actually caught them sleeping side by side together one night. </div>
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Emily is a Sheltie. So she would herd everything that moved. The mower, the tractor, a car, or the 4 wheeler. This photo fits perfectly with how Kotton and Emily would play. Kotton was Cory and my first cat so we learned what it means to take care of an animal and how important it is to make sure they get loved because that is how you build a lifetime of memories with that animal. I am so glad that our guardians got us animals to love every day.</div>
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Unfortunately, Kotton got to the age of 13 years old and his life also came to the end in 2018. That cat will never be forgotten by me. He loved his hunting days and watching Emily and his play made us laugh. He is missed. Both Buff and Kotton lived a wonderful life together.</div>
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With all the animals that came into my life has changed me for the better. Emily and I had a close relationship ever since she was a puppy. She would follow me everywhere I went and did not like it when I left. I always made sure that Emily was taken care of every day. Emily was my best friend whenever I was around. She helped me get through my tough days. She made my life better every single day!</div>
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Emily helped get through my homework nights after I came home from school she was my reading partner I would study with her, read to her while she took a nap on me. Whenever I had a bad day at school she would listen to me of how my day went so it was nice to have a listener.</div>
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I always did my best to take pictures of Emily so I could cherish them forever which most of the time she did not mind me doing, but she sure did know whenever I got the camera out some moments she would participate in and some she would run away, but for the most of the part, she was good at getting photos done. I encourage anyone who has animals to take as many photos as you can so you can hold onto the precious memories you made with your favorite animals!</div>
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While I was in school I always struggled in my classes I had to work harder for my grades than my other classmates and that was alright it did not mean I was not smart I just had to think harder for my grades. </div>
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My favorite class was the gym class I could just be myself as well as it gave me a break from thinking. Whenever classmates found out that I was adopted they would make rude comments to me that would hurt my feelings and I never understood why all I wanted was to make friends and be accepted by people. The older I got the more I was able to ignore those negative comments because I know that I have a purpose here. Everyone’s life journey is special because we all have gone down different paths which have helped us be who we are today and people will judge, but we need to focus on the positive comments and ignore the negativity around us. So just always remember your life journey does matter!</div>
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I graduate high school in 2015 and then I entered the real world. I took a little bit of a break to figure out what I wanted to do. Some people choose to go to college, but that is not what I wanted to do. After we graduate high school it can be a scary thing, but we need to remember that people will tell us what to do and how we should live our lives, but always do what is best for your life. Yes, I did graduate from a Christian school and what I will tell you is I left that school knowing in my heart that I was NOT a Christian and I was alright with that because I knew that I was different. Just because I went to a private school did not mean I had the same belief system that everyone else around me had. No one really asked me about my belief which I was glad about because I sure did not want to talk about it. I will tell you that even today I am still NOT a Christian which I will talk about another day. Everyone has their own belief system so I live the best way I can every day.</div>
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Whenever I got older and was able to write I enjoyed writing in a journal so that I could get my thoughts and feelings out, but there was always one thing that worried me which was who would find that journal and read it so I hid most of mine and did not let anyone look at it even my own guardians that I lived with because it was a personal thing.</div>
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Well, that is where I am going to leave you guys at I will share with you more about myself growing up piece by piece. I wanted to do a short growing up blog because I want to give my readers an idea of how I grew up. I hope this blog gave you an idea of who I am as a writer and blogger. Please stay connected with me to find out when the next blog will be posted. I love all my readers and I am glad we are friends!</div>
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Teamwork is all about the synergy between the members. Any individual no matter how adroit he is can't accomplish all by himself. A robust team will always deliver. But if the members are not allowed to work in an unrestricted environment, the efficiency of the team as a whole will fall. When the leader or manager tries to control or take everything in his hands, the one's under him are sure to despise his methods and won't like to work there. Micromanagement is the perfect example of this shortcoming.</div>
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Micromanagement is the absolute restraining supervision technique. It’s discouraging and counter-intuitive, as the need to regulate everything to make sure all goes according to schedule, only generates more dilemmas in the long-term. The dilemmas start when the employees are forced to haste, report back the situation repetitively. </div>
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Even in circumstances where the pros of micromanagement are authorized to gleam through, it sometimes isn’t worth the long-term problems and awful patterns such a system builds.</div>
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Meet Buff. He was my first dog in my life. He was there when I came to Debbie and Kirby’s house. He was dropped off at their house when he was a puppy during a thunderstorm. No one claimed him. So they kept him and took care of him and made him part of their lives. </div>
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Buff was never around children. So my guardians had to teach him how to be gentle with us which the longer we were around the more he got used to us. I would spend time with Buff as much as I could. When it was summer I would put him on a leash and we would go for walks and then I would brush his hair. We were somewhat close and then we got more animals and Buff had to learn to get along with them. Watching Buff with other animals was interesting. As time went on they learned to love each other every day!</div>
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Buff has taught me that all animals need to be in a loving home because they will change our lives forever. I think dogs know us better than our friends. Dogs have changed my life!</div>
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Meet Kotton. We gave him this name because he was all white. Yes, in the photo you can see that he has one blue eye and one eye green; that is how he was born. Kotton and Cory had a close relationship they always sat on the floor together in the kitchen and spend time together. </div>
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I thought it would be a good idea to take the time to talk about how I grew up so that you get an idea of who I am. The only way you will get to know me is if I share with you some memories I have and how I grew up. My story starts out differently from others and I honestly believe that is what makes me special. The reason why I would like to share my story with you is that I want people to know that I lived a good life. And I want to share the lessons I learned along the way with the people around me. So here is my story I hope you enjoy and know me better as a person as well as a writer with you all!</div>
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I am originally from Ukraine and the way I came over to the United States is through adoption and I am thankful for that because I get to have freedom in my life. I came over to the United States when I was only 4 years old with my brother.</div>
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When my birth mother found out that she was pregnant with me I bet she was scared and had to make the toughest choice she would have to make ever in her life. She knew that she was unable to take care of me from where she was at. As her heart was breaking to let me go she knew in her heart that giving me up was the best choice she could have made even though it was a painful thing for her to do. After I was born I was put in an orphanage where I and many other children waited to be united with their forever families. All of us want to be loved by someone every single day. I waited for my forever family and then it finally happened when the couple came to see me in the orphanage every day.</div>
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The couples that came to Ukraine were Kirby and Debbie Kendall. After they got married they knew that they always wanted children just waited for the right time so they saved up money. But the concept of adoption was always there in their mind as they wanted to change a child’s life. So they started the process looking around, getting information, and choosing the right place to adopt from and Ukraine was their final answer. </div>
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They packed all their bags and headed towards Ukraine in 2000 to begin their journey of adoption. They went through photos of children and then went to orphanages to see and that is when they saw and met me for the first time. I do not remember anything that happened at the orphanage because I was too young at that time. They knew they wanted a little boy and a little girl. They would come back to the orphanage every single day to visit me and play with me. The hardest thing about being an orphan is that you always have to wait for someone to choose you and waiting for a forever family can be a very long process and heartbreaking sometimes if someone does not choose you and they choose someone else. </div>
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Right from inside my heart I wanted someone to adopt me. Whenever I hear stories about adoption it makes me feel better because I know that I am not the only person who was going to get adopted. It is unique how adoption stories came together because children’s lives are changed forever. I know that my life changed forever!</div>
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On November 15, 2000, my dream finally came true. Kirby and Debbie chose me to be with them what I did not know whether they were going to bring me home along with a brother. Kirby and Debbie found a boy later on and then started the adoption process in Ukraine. My brother and I are not blood-related. We came to our forever home in December of 2000. I was 4 and Cory was 2 at the time we did not know how to speak English at the time so we were taught how to until we caught on it took me longer than Cory, but I eventually got there. Debbie and Kirby made sure that we were taken really good care of, got the education that we needed growing up, allowed us to make friends, and always reminded us that we were loved by them no matter what! We were reminded every morning, afternoon, evening, and bedtime that they loved us which was a wonderful thing.</div>
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What to wear to look confident? Or how to start a conversation with the colleague? The nervousness is very normal for a newbie. Here are some tips that can help new office bearers and highlight their positive traits.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Early Arrivals, Late Departures</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No matter how well you handle things even if being late, punctuality must be practiced. Being on time to the workplace leaves a good impression of employees. But, try scheduling your watch for fifteen minutes’ early arrival. If you think it is not your cup of tea, then doctors can guide you </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This trick is beneficial in cities with high traffic. You can wait in the lobby and prepare yourself for the new day. Being one of the last persons to leave the office might give you the real feeling of the office culture. You may even end up making friends with some colleagues.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dressing up Appropriately</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Great fashion designer Miuccia Prada once said that your attire represents yourself and can help you connect with people. Choose an outfit that suits the office arena or call your manager for the dress code.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Even overdressing will work, as it shows that you are taking office seriously. Also, taking an extra piece for an emergency helps like a jacket for the air-conditioned rooms, just in case. There are tips on the internet to make it even easier for you to decide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Practice Introducing Yourself</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Introducing yourself is an art. Choosing the right words at the correct occasion is difficult even for the extroverts. For a fresher at the office, introducing will be a recursive activity. Try to learn how to smile that looks like you mean it and the gentle handshake. Here are some tips that can help. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Follow the Rules</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are a lot of dos and don’ts in any firm. Take a look at the notice board for the set of rules. Keep a check on your activities at least for the initial period. This can prevent you from becoming a clumsy employee.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A little bit of Intellectuality but Politeness</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Try to read about your company, not just your department. It is obvious that one will not get the whole idea and no one expects it from a fresher. But having a little knowledge can show your intellect. A much better option is to listen carefully and ask questions. This is a good way to show that one is interested in the discussion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Politeness is the key to new friendships. Do remember to thank the people who helped you around. 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If you are aspiring to be a successful leader this article is for you. Like it or not, every word and action of a leader remains under constant watch. A person who can project himself as a saviour and not just a survivor during any turmoil gains confidence among masses which is a prime quality as a successful leader. Let’s begin.</div>
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The office arena consumes a big part of the week in any employee’s life. Such places affect the mental and physical health in a good or in a wrong way. By giving the office a lively look their mood can be lightened. This in turn gives the company a better performance. You can go through the basic ideas for office decors to make it livelier.</div>
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Offices today are all tightly packed because air conditioners require such orientation. This way the office rooms compromise with the bright sunlight and the beautiful natural sceneries outside. A little more panes on the walls can light up the whole area and keep the employees away from being packed up.</div>
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The empty walls add vagueness and increase boredom. Switch to the artistic side and make the office interesting to look at. Unique chairs and tables, or the hanging lights look fascinating. Putting paintings with positive messages may inspire employees. Walking on the artistic always mesmerizes the purity in the soul.</div>
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A very famous décor is putting mirrors. Mirrors are extensively used, in fashion, interior designing, craft. Putting mirrors on the walls, especially on the ceiling makes the office area beautiful and brighter due to the reflections. When the employees take a break to stretch their bodies a little or their necks, they can take a glance at their faces. Looking at the mirror can boost a person’s confidence and make them more social.</div>
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A physical distraction from work is so important. Installing games can ironically help an employee to be more concentrated. From children to adults, games always inspire. Games also help in building better relationships. The lunch will not be boring when the office has a pool game or table tennis. The arena becomes full of positive energy. This will cost a little but will prove to be an investment.</div>
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Simple colors look classy but sometimes they make the décor boring. But where attracting the energy of the employees is involved, colors can play a better role. Having colorful geometric patterns on the floor or multi-coloured angled furniture makes the environment playful. Colors are rich in moods. If the company has a set of colors that show some symbolism, then those will be a better choice.</div>
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Everyone prefers plants in their homes, saying they purify the air. Plants not just purify; they also beautify the surrounding. There are flowering plants or plants with beautiful leaves like the snake plant or majestic palm. They can survive indoors without much hard work. The green color of the plants soothes the human mood. What can be a better way to make the office as lively as the plants!</div>
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Focusing less on making the office a fit for class, it must be made a fit for the employees. Ask the designers beforehand about their plans. I encourage you to discuss the whole design. The more the office looks lively and familiar the more it will <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/05/workplace-ambience-can-affect-employee-attitude-productivity.html" target="_blank">motivate employees to work</a>.</div>
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Employee well-being is strongly correlated to employee productivity and performance and workplace ambiance play a great role in motivating them. Whether you agree or disagree, it is a proven fact.</div>
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An employee spends 9 hours or more of their day inside the office premise. They sit there for hours, combining creativity and intelligence to produce results for their employers. They need a workplace environment that is conducive in order to create something unique and add value to the production. Hence, the ambiance of the physical workplaces, be it government or corporate, plays a significant role in an employee’s life.</div>
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Employers often neglect these aspects while building office suites. They cramp up space with as many sitting arrangements they could make. It is because when they build their offices they are focused on the number of employees they are going to hire and the profit they are looking to make, and not employee well-being or his comfort.</div>
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Have you ever worked in an office environment where the rooms are filled with toxic fumes of tobacco? Does it appeal to you as a perfect environment for creative thinking? Well, to some maybe yes, to others it might not be.</div>
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Some people like to smoke while working. They say it boosts their creative mind. Others smoke to ward off boredom. Many of them are chain smokers. They pop cigarettes one after another without bothering to care for the fellow employees who are allergic to tobacco. Employers who are smokers themselves often allow his/her employees to smoke inside the room to make them feel comfortable. All they want are happy employees who can deliver their tasks in such a condition. But this is partiality.</div>
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They forget about those employees who are non-smokers. There might be employees who are highly allergic to tobacco and sitting inside an office room, day after day, filled with toxic fumes, can lead to an adverse effect on his or her health. Often these rooms are insulated for air-conditioning and windows are not allowed to be opened, leading tobacco smoke to accumulate inside. This makes it unbearable for the non-smokers. They can neither sit inside comfortably nor concentrate on their work while gasping for breath all the time.</div>
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It is often seen an office space is divided into a two-story one by using a false ceiling and floor to make way for more employees. Employers of such companies surely love saving money! Even though they make crores of rupees at the end of the day, spending money after employee safety and comfort is a trivial matter to them.</div>
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Windows are forcefully closed to make way for air conditioning machines. This reduces the air circulation inside the room leading to an uncomfortable smelly atmosphere. Who wants to work in such an environment?</div>
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The low height of the ceiling, with very little space to move about or spread legs to make yourself comfortable, unclean desks, and floors filled with old dusty carpets, bugs, and insects around are surely not an appealing sight to any employee who has a taste for sophistication and cleanliness.</div>
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Offices having a false floor with no fire exit and narrow winding stairs to come up and down are not safe for employees. An accident like fire breaks or earthquake can cause a major disaster and loss of lives if such a structure collapses.</div>
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People with claustrophobia don't like such ambiance to work in. This makes them unhappy, unproductive, and panicky. Disengaged employees are unlikely to make positive contributions and their negativity tends to spread at an alarming rate.</div>
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We all know sitting at the office desk and in front of a computer for long hours can lead to computer-induced health problems. Health issues like spondylosis, severe back pain, neck pain, computer vision syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc. are widespread among IT workers and graphic designers. All these can be related to bad sitting arrangements or posture at workplaces.</div>
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How many of you have experienced proper sitting arrangements that comfort you while working at the office? Employers often forget that neglecting the principles of ergonomics during computer utility raises the risk of health problems.</div>
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For example in open offices desks are divided into small cubicles with hardly 2 feet space for each employee to sit. An employee with heavy stature might not even be able to turn his chair while getting up from his seat! One might not be able to move the mouse properly on the desk due to a shortage of space.</div>
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Offering broken or wobbly revolving chairs to employees for sitting is another commonplace thing in offices. Imagine the situation where you are sitting on an unsteady chair, trying to concentrate on a difficult designing project, while your body is continuously vacillating all day long. Does it seem appealing to you to work in such a condition?</div>
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A small designing house on the mezzanine floor of a building used bright red color to paint its walls and offered red cushioned chairs and red-colored felt-topped tables for each and every employee. The office was also brightly lit. The reason was simple...red was the company's brand color.</div>
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Red is a very powerful color. Being a physical color it can stimulate the pulse and can raise blood pressure. So, red can be used for areas where physical jobs like construction activities are done. It is not very ideal for a creative office environment. To some people bright colors inside the office can become a distracting element.</div>
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On the other hand dull grey walls with cracks, use of pale colors on walls, dusty old furniture and dark corners might not be motivating to many. For example grey often represents neutrality, but, if it is used inappropriately with dim light, it suggests a lack of confidence and can stimulate a depressing mood.</div>
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The use of colors, forms, and visuals evoke emotions in humans. A balanced emotional quotient is a must in the office culture today, where employees are pressed for time. Many employers are now preferring <a href="https://www.exposant.co.in/2020/06/make-your-work-space-livelier-with-these-simple-decor-tips.html" target="_blank">visually and thoughtfully-designed workspaces</a> that can boost to evoke empathy in the competitive employees of today.</div>
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To bring an attitudinal shift in the way people work an employer must pay heed to these aspects of office ambiance. Employees who enjoy and like the environments they are a part of will be more engaged, productive, happy, and healthy.<br />
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সায়ন্তনী ব্যানার্জী (Sayantani Banerjee)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13701940719922424286noreply@blogger.com0