--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we expect multinationals and huge Indian > companies to employ adequate number of people to > preform required services, we are mistaken. In > fact, Indian companies revel in the fact that they > can gnaw at the inherent insecurity that resides in > every working Indian soul, and make a single > employee do the work of at least 3 people. > > This exploitative trend then translates into a "work > culture". Working long hours, burning the midnight > oil and the candle at both ends becomes the expected > norm. Anyone who dares to leave at end of office > hours is condescendingly labeled a "nine-to-five" > man and further advances in ones career are all but > closed to such an individual. > > Indian companies have never felt the need to have a > social conscience nor the demographic pressure to be > employee friendly. Although in recent years some > advances have been made in the sphere of human > resource management, the greater emphasis is still > on "working like a dog" and making one's personal > life secondary to the needs of the company. > Mario observes: > The only Indian companies I worked for were Larsen & Toubro and Tata's which were both extremely socially and employee conscious. > Like anything in a competitive free-market economy the fundamental principle is one of supply and demand. "Reveling" in mistreating employees would be hazardous to any company in the long run. We have a saying in America, "What goes around, comes around." > True free-market capitalism requires companies to be socially conscious to their employees, their customers and their environment for their own long term benefit. Ill-treated people have long memories. > We know people like your rich friends in Goa who could certainly treat their maid more humanely, but they tend to have problems holding on to their workers. We have equally rich friends in India, who treat their domestic help very well and they never seem to have problems with their help. > I don't know about Goa, but I don't think you could get good domestic help in places like Mumbai and Pune unless you paid them well and treated them well. There is too much demand for their services for them to put up with poor treatment. > You have written about India, but in the US, where every company is constantly in a survival mode due to intense competition, "Working long hours, burning the midnight oil and the candle at both ends..." has always been the expected norm. No one who is a "nine to five" clock-watcher is likely to survive for very long in any American company. >
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