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House Gate Analogy - HR's New Role in Sustainability

Every often, in organizations the Strategy flows from the top level to the bottom. But not all the time the strategies are completely translated into actions by the employees. Even the managers in the middle encounter a lot of misunderstandings and confusions in the stretch of strategy execution. The basic reason for this has been identified by experts and it is called the “Information Gap”.

                It is not difficult for Organizations to find Talents, Resources, Material, etc if proper price is paid. All these being available, organizations are still fighting to envisage what exactly is missing to achieve what it desires. To understand that, consider this simple approach called “house gate” analogy.

In this approach, a house gate is seen with the perspective of an Organization. One side of the gate is the top management which decides on the strategies and the other side is the operations which just executes whatever been formulated. The ‘link’ at the centre is many times ignored because of its smaller magnitude to attract importance, or those which are not perceived attractive to show interest of high magnitude. The missing smaller links could be

1.       Difference between Organizational and Native culture

2.       In understanding Employee Mindset

3.       Understanding Local Culture

4.       Ignoring the Individualism among employees and

Both the gates along with the link should function properly in order to enable “sustainability”. A stronger house gate provides a better feeling of security to its employees, Stake holders and of course the owner. Deterioration to any one of these sides of gates or to the link will result in overall insecureness to every stakeholder.

All these missing links (the latch) can be linked but involves lot of human and cultural interferences. Though strategy and operations are performed by different entities, internal information gaps can be addressed by HR only more efficiently than anyone because of the fact that internal human (not IT) communication is been carried out only by the HR currently in organizations.

ANTI GRAVITY ORGANIZATIONS

Under gravity, things fall down easily and if to fly up, an external force is required. An anti-gravity organization is where stuffs prominently move upward (against gravity) and it is difficult for anything to move downward without an external application of force. Up moving things are profits, talents, and reports etc which move seamlessly with little effort. Meanwhile things that actually should flow down easily, like strategy information, vision, motivation, empowerment etc are not moving easily and are given massive forces to make it move.

                In organizations, people innovate and adapt forward changes only if they are either satisfied or used to the established practices and have a thirst for newer processes. That thirst is created only if they are empowered, motivated, understood strategy, vision, and mission etc to explore existing processes. One important way to accomplish all these is to loosen up restrictions to access required information. In this highly competitive environment, immense amounts of differentiation is demanded and achieving that is possible only if we make sure all the processes run at par with employee satisfaction levels. Once they are at that level, because of the thirst, eventual innovation happens. But these innovations should be in such a way it sticks to the strategy, vision and mission.

LEARN THE FUNCTIONS

Here it is like learning things which are at the front and the back of one’s respective function. In those organizations with highly interlinked and cross linked functions, learning spans its wings in more directions.

All the employees must be informed with the internal operations and functions about the one preceding and one or two succeeding functions.  For example, a person in machining department knows nothing about the assembly department. If people work like this without any connection, they lose their ability to think beyond their present levels. So learning is essential.

If done, he will be able to establish a route to direct his imagination and innovation. For instance, if the manufacturing person has a fair idea about the assembly operations, the next time an innovation comes to his mind, he will automatically think about the possibilities and difficulties in assembly department and may tweak his innovation to accommodate those difficulties. By facilitating one to know about other functions, a Route for his thought process is paved so that his imagination flow is streamlined towards perfection, suitability and sustainability. A well connected system will thus ensure an easier translation of strategy into operations.

DO CUE-MINING

Cue Mining is a simple process which involves simply finding the cues, collecting them, scrutinizing, concatenating, inferring, and reacting. Improvements can be made only if faults are identified. Faults are always hidden. But some cues will be definitely there to indicate that some fault is there somewhere. Any person in the organization should have that sense of Cue Mining. If he reaches the fault spot by cue mining, then using his learned knowledge, he can let his imagination flow in the proper strategic direction and ultimately rectify the flaw or improve the system. Huge amounts of common sense, interpretation skills, cognitive strength, process knowledge etc are needed to do cue mining.

LINK THE GATES

                In any anti-gravity organization, the movement of down moving things are made easy if they

1.       Make employees understand the strategy, vision, mission etc

2.       Make them learn the functions that precedes and succeeds

3.       Make them capable of doing Cue-Mining

To enable these above mentioned points, the role of a HR is immense. By enabling these, organizations will become better capable of exactly identifying that Missing Link or Unclosed link and doing Innovations. And everybody knows what benefits a better innovation brings. Though it initially takes a deluge of planning, time and patience, it brings at the end high amounts of innovation, competitive advantage, superior brand image, sustainability, operational excellence and many more. 

This article of mine got published in the IIM Shillong's Magazine and clinched the "Article of the Month" title. Here is the Link to the Magazine http://www.iims-ushr.in/ . 

There is no difference you bloody man!!

She is from Belgium; now on her way to Sri Lanka to see a Swamiji and to become his devotee. That’s good! A Belgium lady is inspired by our culture and staying here as a disciple of someone. Good!

It was a nice conversation with her until I asked about her religion. She said “NOTHING” that actually amazed me, because the word nothing really means a lot. I got hyper curiousness and wanted to dig more into her beliefs to know whether I was cast away from her way of finding God (sorry for using this word ‘god’ but being an atheist). She said she was a devotee of Swami Premananda, Swami Nithyananda(truly) and as I said, now she is on her way to Sri Lanka to find some other “Swamiji”. Laughter came just like you, but she said all those complaints and scandals are false and created to defame the so called living Gods. Her explanations and justifications were very interesting per se.

With some insanely developed instant respect I looked at her and asked “what do you think about atheists”? She said, “Hmmm... They are those people with very less integrity, who do no respect god, do bad things and be bad examples to their descents, blah blah blah… “. I was again amazed to see a NUN like person piling up complaints about the people who are not her way. I didn't get any reply at that moment to her. After a quite minute I said I am an atheist. (an excellent reaction she gave after hearing me).

“Ok. Let’s talk about something else” I said. But she went deep in booting theists and their behaviors. She asked me about why I became an atheist and what my beliefs are. I said that the only thing we should do is to establish a trait and follow that. Our life is full of decision making and sticking to that. If you stick to your words there is no need for a GOD which according to me is created to make people think of something is watching them when they go wrong and to attribute their failures in the name of fate. “If you think.. you will get to know, If you know.. you can get to do, If you do.. you will get what you deserve to get, but all we've to do is to think right and good” is my policy. Sigh. I think I talked something annoying to her but somehow managed to put a few points without leaving her a gap to argue.

Slowly I asked her about India since the previous topic was little combative and boring. I could see a Tejas in her face that she could not have got even after a long meditation. She started interestingly to pile up various beauties of India like heavy dust, littering on road, peeing on road, stringy traffic, mass of roadside beggars, and all complaints starting with all alphabets. The highlight was, she said “since the place is like this even I don’t hesitate to litter on road. Because nobody cares you see”. Shock!! Am I still talking to a hardcore theist who was talking some philosophy and goodness till now? Where those entire so called Gods have gone from herself? Where is the GOD way convention? Does any God allow anyone to violate rules? Does any God get satisfied simply with hours of pooja and no real devotion? Where is your devotion going? + xⁿ no of questions in my mind.

Then I thought even animal do things better than her (mind she is a hardcore disciple of some swamiji). I found one thing. Being an atheist or theist doesn't make any sense but it makes terrible sense from what you are doing with the name of God. God is to guide us, not always to forgive us. God is to teach good things, not to excuse your wrong things. God is to set a rule, not a tool to change the rule. God is to open our eyes, not to follow some stupid things blindly. Besides all these facts about God, there is nothing called a God in some stones or pictures. God is within you!. What you think is the God!. How you do things without doing anything bad to others is God!. I know all these are been said in that wonderful Tamil movie ANBE SIVAM. But stillll…..