Sanjivani,
In your daily report of yesterday, I noticed that you have completed all re-formatting and plan to upload today on Kindle . This is good news
After uploading – but before hitting the PUBLISH button – can I get to VIEW the entire book online ( on AMAZON ? ), to get an idea about how it would appear to those who download ? A kind of “ last minute rehearsal “
The first page has been named : About this Book / Introduction
Pl re-name this first page it as : About this Book / Opening Remarks
Then, add one LAST page and name it : Closing Remarks
The text of that last page will be as follows :
Dear Readers :
While going through this book, you would have noticed that the central theme of my dialogue with L&T employees was :
Ø How to increase Productivity [ in terms of physical output per man-hour, at constant prices ]
Ø How to reduce costs of Inputs [ Manpower – Materials – Machines – Money – Management etc ]
Within these, my focus was on reduction of “ Manpower Costs “ [ wages – salaries ]
I even suggested changing the traditional / ingrained , concept of ,” 100 % Neutralization of the rise in the Cost of Living “ through linkage of DA ( dearness allowance ) with ever-rising CPI ( consumer price index ) – month after month
But, where I could not succeed in convincing the Unionized employees of the logic behind this concept, L&T did implement it when it came to its very Senior employees ( charity begins at home ) !
The following “ Salary Growth Data “ of a group of retired Deputy General Managers / General Managers of L&T,( exchanged among themselves many years after their retirements, around year 2005 ), would convince you.
Much as I would have liked to share such data with all the employees at Powai Works as a part of my drive to “ Share Company data transparently to all employees “ , I could not since I did not have access to such data in 1982 !
But ( ironically ? ), Union Leaders had access to all of these data since their members worked in L&T’s Central Personnel Department !
If you are a HR Manager, you may want to install such a software in your MIS ( Management Information System ) which displays such graphs on your dashboard, for each group of your employees ( Unionized – supervisory – Officer – Manager – General Managers etc ), on a continuous basis
That is relatively easy part
Far more difficult would be to convince your MD / CEO / Chairperson that trying to hide data from Union does not work . On the contrary, it produces distrust !
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 March 2021
First Image : Tabulation ( Annual Average Salary Increase During Service )
Second Image : Graph ( Annual Average Salary Increase During Service )
Third Image : Graph ( Salary Growth over Service Period )
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