Synopsis: Communication For Productivity
Letters written to some 7500 Workers / Managers /
Union Leaders, following a period of strike / Go slow / Murders (1979 -
1987), at Mumbai factory of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. This direct / open /
honest communication led to a remarkable atmosphere of trust between
Workers and Management, which, in turn, increased productivity at 3% per year
(ave).
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23 Dec 1985
To:
Dear Friends
Only a few days back I wrote to you regarding the problems
being faced by
-
Refrigerator industry
-
Alloy Steel
Plant - Durgapur
Thereafter I came across a write-up
about ASP in a news paper - reproduced below:
It reads
"ASP
management has given an assurance (to
the Union?) not to declare any worker surplus...."
This I do
not understand.!
Due to
changing technology/methods or due to lack of orders or due to any reason what-so-ever,
if people become surplus, one has to simply
declare them as "surplus"!
The facts
cannot be changed! even if you were to hide
your face in the sands like an ostrich! I
Facts remain facts!
On the
other hand I
can understand very
well that a management gives an assurance to such surplus employees that although they are
surplus, they will not be retrenched.
But if any
company has
to carry such "Dead-Wood" on its shoulders, it
goes without saying
that the remaining workforce has to become even more
productive than before.
Unless,
of course, that organisation decides to get rid of the "Dead-Wood" as it
seems to be happening in the Andhra Pradesh
(read following article).
In this Vikram Samvat 2042, it looks
as if even in "Ram (Rao) Rajya", it
has become a matter
of "survival-of-the-fittest" and
consigning dead-wood to the flames!
I don't
think it can
be any different
proposition in "Shiv (Rao)
Rajya" !
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