The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker Some months back, my son was lying down and reading in his room with his light source behind him. As usual, I started to shout at him and said the light should always shine from your left. Then he looked sharply at my face and asked "Why?". I responded to him "Look, you have a long time to go and your eyesight should be good." He returned to his book "Appa, my eyes are fine. What are you worrying about?" I said "Sustainability. Can your eyes take this sort of abuse" He immediately dropped the book "What do you mean by Sustainability?" I wanted it to be simple, so I gave this explanation. Sustainability consists of fulfilling the need of current without compromising future requirements. "Yeah yeah, I know that" my son replied nonchalantly. "Why this cynicism?" "Look here" he showed the book to me. It was Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. "This book says that the move to become an agrarian community is not a good move" I started to nod while he continued "I know you will negate me". He paused for a while "But is there something about this issue in our ancient scriptures?"
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do -- Oprah Winfrey (America TV Personality) Attrition is a silent killer with a very adverse effect on any organization. It has the potential to bring down any corporation down on its knees in a quick time frame. All IT firms face this problem and it has existed since long time. Many firms have made innovative solutions, and yet the problem lingers. Even if you had the best of all, there is someone who is contemplating of leaving the organization. The best compensation, healthy work culture or even smashing benefits is not enough. So are you telling me to leave this problem hanging? No. Every company puts in a lot of efforts and investments in recruitment and hiring process. Yet they have not looked deep into why people leave you. There is a general perception that compensation is the main reason for attrition. When we look into the data analysis - it does not feature in the top 10 reasons at all. Then what are the reasons? Before we go there, let us look at the problem first. Organizations need to put efforts into understanding the motivations behind employee attrition. Then they need to address the causes rather than the symptoms. Else they will only have a chance for damage control. The most logical step is to know your employees well. In the current fast-paced environment, there is no time. With Agile adopted worldwide - is there time for us to pause and look at the people? Well, one of the main KPI for a people manager is to know his people, so they cannot hide behind time constraints. With many tools and methods at his disposal, one needs to figure this data fast. If you are looking for a sustainable solution. OK, enough of the Gyan - let me have the top reasons please. Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do -- Potter Stewart (Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of US) Everyone has a different view of Ethics but all of those views finally merge into one pattern: Right or Wrong. I also had the same issue when I decided to start full-fledged research on this topic. What suddenly prompted me to go into this topic - well it was the last blog of mine. What can you learn as a leader from the movie Drishyam-2. What's the connection you may ask? It was the last paragraph that got me to this topic. I wanted to know if what Georgekutty did was ethical or not. Let's begin that journey and see where we end. Are you ready folks? Let us start with what is ethics anyway? At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral philosophy. The term is actually derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean custom, habit, character, or disposition. Most of the concept of ethics in any country is basically derived from the religions, philosophies, and cultures of that land. Philosophers have divided Ethics broadly into 3 buckets: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics
Now you may ask if there is any use of Ethics, especially in today's environment. Since the environment is fully infected with Greed and partially hypocritical disease. I feel that Ethics is the only available tablet for these diseases. There is a band of people who believe that Ethics affects the way people or community behaves and there is another group that says that it's only fit for literature study - since most of the people these days are irrational. Ethics works only when you become rational. When I listen to both sides of the story, for me both of them look correct from their perspective. That brings me back to the basic question - which is right? One thing which we must clearly understand is that Ethics will never give you the right answers. Then what does it give? Ethics doesn't always show us the right answer to a moral problem. Indeed more and more people think that for any ethical issue there isn't a single right answer - just a set of principles that can be applied to that case to give those involved some clarity in the choices. I feel that all Ethics does it that it can really clear the confusion and disturbing noise from the issue. After that, it's basically upto the individual to see and make the choice on their own will and judgement. Now - where do Drishyam-2 and Georgekutty come into the frame? |
AuthorVasudevan is a Leadership Mentor and an Executive coach. I run an online website geared towards helping creative entrepreneurs and future managers to build their dreams. Archives
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