Dear Amitabh,
I believe you were in Japan , last week
In that context , you may like my today's blog below
with regards,
hemen
parekh
Marol
, Mumbai , India
( M
) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08
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How
To Improve Work-Life Balance ?
Last
week , TOYOTA company announced that it is planning to introduce a " tele
commute " system , which will allow some 25,000 employees ( more than one
- third of its work force ) , to do most of their work from home
This
plan will cover employees working in following functional areas :
*
Human Resource / Accounts / Sales / Research
& Development / Engineering
And
will embrace :
*
Those who have been working for TOYOTA for over 5 years
*
Those working in Company's headquarters
Methodology
being adopted :
*
TOYOTA is negotiating the plan with Trade Unions ( - negotiate to make
employees happy ? )
REASON ?
*
TOYOTA management believes that tele-commuting will improve work-life balance
of concerned employees
Coming
from TOYOTA , this ( reasoning ) is NOT a surprise ! It
is totally believable !
In
support of my belief , I reproduce below , a part of a letter that I sent to 7500 employees of L&T ( individual copies
in English and in Marathi ) , on 21 Feb 1985 ( titled ,
" Instant Industrial Relations ? " ) :
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began a pilgrimage in 1952, to talk
with employees in small discussion-groups, at their homes, after
work-hours, in an attempt to re-establish
mutual dialogue.
On an average, they made three visits a night,
coming home after nine o'clock, six days a week ...... The two
managers had to continue their itenerary
for ten years,
before they were convinced that their mission was finally completed
Ten years / 9000 families / one hour with each
family - all to re-establish mutual dialogue !
In the enclosed article
on
"Industrial Relations in Japan" ,
you will come across many examples of the
Japanese tenacity when it comes to building trust between groups of employees - by whatever name
called.
A few months back, MR. MISU, one-time
director of HITACHI, said,
"As individuals, Japanese people are not very
brilliant. We have won only 4 Nobel-prizes
in all these years against 109 won by the
Americans.
But when it comes to working collectively as a team, we are almost unbeatable ! "
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At a point in time when Governments ( Central + States )
are crying hoarse about urgent need for " Labour
Reforms " , it is time to sit back and ask :
" How urgently do we need some MANAGEMENT ATTITUDE REFORMS ?
Or , has WORKER PARTICIPATION IN
MANAGEMENT , become an obsolete concept ?
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14 June 2016
www.hemenparekh.in
> Letters to L&T Employees
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