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Permalink Reply by Sandeep Das on January 24, 2011 at 7:58pm

Agree Nayana.

This is all relative really, in my experience, the differentiator that we Asians possess at the global level is the ' jugaad ability' ... in corpo parlance this may be described as 'the ability to adapt to unstructured & hitherto unknown scenarios, and win thru out-of-the-box strategies' !

An organisation however needs to ensure that they use this ability of ours to get positive results, cuz it can go either way (-;

Nayana Somaratna said:

@Sandeep - this just my personal opinion, but is there really so much 'out of the box' thinking in our countries ? In Sri Lanka at least, most people tend to fall into a groove and can't get out of it.

Most people blame our education system which tends to emphasize 'rote memorization' and continuous slogging through lessons (although I personally think that people should just blame themselves for acting like cattle).

 

Sandeep Das said:

Personal opinion from Central Europe:

In India

1. workers (on production lines or otherwise) are way smarter than their counterparts in the west

2. 'Out of the Box' thinking happens at all levels .. vs the west, where people are more used to following set procedures

3. Issues exist in terms of employee motivation ... people upto a certain level may not get paid well, or rewards may not be linked to the right deliverables. 

4. Certain behaviorial- cultural issues (like wasting time, working late, etc) gets into the way of efficiency

 

Net, the positives, in India, far outweigh the negatives in terms of employee contribution potential.

With the right motivation and culture setting (which is perhaps what u r doing at C2W) productivity and innovation in India can and does go through the roof vs the west .. and your employees can be on jet skis all the time !

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Anushka Shroff on January 25, 2011 at 9:38am

Hi Sanjay

 

The "Firangs" mostly are brain dead..or let me say...with less grey cells...hence they employ more "Indians"...

 

Indians work 5-6 or 7 hours a day...as they do smart working ..& deliver optimum results..meeting deadine.........and then they surf facebook....which is also beneficial to business related information and research too...alongwith some personal stuff....

 

..I agree on personal calls..which needs to be restricted or banned....:)during work hours.....but not everyone is on personal calls since one is accountable ..those who are on long personal calls are wrong hires ..

 

Productivity is sure with super planning and focus and execution...and above all Indian's are excellent at multitasking...which cant be compared with "australians" or "firangs' :)

Regards

 

SANJAY DODRAJKA said:

I can add this with my experience of working in Australia.

 

In India, when an employee leaves for work - you hear his spouse shout out to him:

1. pls remember to call the plumber

2. Pls remember to pay the electricity bill

3. Pls remember to deposit your LIC premium

4. pls remember to call buaji/masiji and wish her on her anniversary.

5. Pls remember to ....... I can go on and on.

 

We Indians work just 5-6 hrs and spend a majority of time doing either personal stuff or on FB or chatting for good 15-20 mins at the cafetaria over a cup of tea.

 

In Australia (and maybe in other developed nations also), its very common to hear people respond to personal calls on cellphones - "Sorry - I am at work - can i call you back in the evening or on weekend"

 

There ,you would hardly find an employee paying his personal bills/LIC premiums/bills during office hours.

It just adds to productivity of employees and hence they can concentrate on their jobs.

 

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Permalink Reply by Gaurang Bhatt on January 26, 2011 at 11:33am

It is more of Socio-Political issue. I am not saying this just to be different but don't you think it is quite laudable to provide 10 workers their livelihood instead of 1 considering population difference between Italy and India.

We have our own work ethics and culture. Rather than aping western work culture and ethics, we can fine tuned our working style.

Also MD of your socks factory probably knew all those 10 workers and their families by name, do you think owner of Italian factory owner knew that girl?

Our mixing of work and personal life stems from belief that it is not separate. Earlier people used to have shop in front and residence in back with a curtain separating them. Even now some old trading businesses in central and south mumbai have their employees work in office during day and sleep there during night. Owner provides not only employment but lodging and boarding too.I have seen this happening in 'pedhi' kind of environment.

So efficiency doesn't come from number of employees an organization employs but how customer perceives it. Today if we are world's call center (take it positively) because of manpower, educated, process driven as well ability to think out of box.

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Permalink Reply by Ashwin C Parulkar on January 30, 2011 at 5:44pm

Productivity is huge issue, and salaries r too low so any buiness would prefer keeping cheap labour instead process improvements, skill dev. and tech improvement which wd cost huge investments, we share a same work culture like our political leadership (2g spectrum).

also the guyes in ur sock factory now they will not loose there jobs come wht may, the Girl knows it that she will if she did not put on her rollerskets!!!!

Alok 'Rodinhood' Kejriwal said:

Ajay,

To drive home my point....if I had told my factory workers to wear roller skates (and operate just 8 machines...not 40)...they would have called in the Shiv Sena...

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