This is a social , moral and management
issue if one makes it into a debate!! In the Non
Linear Era it makes sense to "accept this as a
fact"; fortunate or unfortunate is not the issue
as in NLT we focus on solutions and do not
moralize or pass judgment.
The error can perhaps be placed
at the door of our teachers who have continued
since the Linear Era teaching us that 'economics
should not be the driver of human values'. YET
our systems have made economics to be the 'prime
component in almost every resolution'. Old cultures
like India have greater change made because they
have always integrated within their education,
history and culture 'the underlying linkage
between wealth and evil'. It is a part of
most fables, religious mythology and even movie
scripts.
We now need to change our systems
that perhaps commence from the "acceptance" of
economics as the controller and then attempt to
teach the 'benefits and correct usage of wealth
and income' as opposed to the continued emphasis
that human values must never be driven by economics!!
It is safe to say that this teaching has reached
its "Relative Saturation" as it is now fails to
attract the majority.
How do we apply this within
Management?
This is infact an HRD issue!!
The "FIRST" management input
required is to "stop" rewarding "indispensability".
Once again we should note that perception is based
on the persons" past record" and does not infact
have any relevance to the future. (We are referring
to issues within a Non Linear era!!)
Management thus need not attempt
to create individual ouput focussed "super - performers".
These super-heroes must be retrained and motivated
to understand that their future and economic reward
will be based on their ability to teach others
the skills to go beyond their past performance
abilities. Their ability to create other "super-
performers" must become worth more than their
individual performance.
Beyond, just a philosophy - this
would have strong economic benefit to the corporate.
Todays "output" based systems do not provide the
DUE reward for such an "input".
Our current systems breed insecurity
and create the perception that if a person "teaches
another", then that person stands to lose his
or her value in the future. An individual therefore
perceives that he or she will obtain more benefit
retaining individual star - performance qualities.
We therefore constantly "lose" talent to history
within old and what we can refer to as 'static
establishments and sciences ( like Indian Vedic
Sciences).
Therefore skills that we desperately
require and need CANNOT be proliferated - because
linear systems discourage the "sharing of skills".
Teaching and sharing a skill today is "actually"
a losing proposition. For the teacher in a corporate
structure - Secrecy and "solo - competence' become
rewarded attributes.
Surely this should not be our
"management" goal for the future?
While we teach input based skills
everyday in our elaborate training programmes
and corporate philosophy - they remain rhetoric
because economics has not been integrated into
systems to insure that they influence human values.
Natural response based human
values seem to have diminished. NLT believes that
this is due to our paradoxical refusal to acknowledge
and factor the effect that economics systems have
on our "natural behaviour". "Natural" has thus
become an esoteric philosophy and almost the exclusive
preserve of very high income individuals and corporates.
Economics has changed them; either fortunately
because they want to 'preserve' their economic
status or because they have placed "human values"
at a higher value. BUT only after they have experienced
the benefits of economic success.
This is a Non Linear result.
Now we require Non Linear inputs to insure this
change.We need systems that USE economics to create
human values instead of assuming or having to
wait for human values to appear after we are economically
successful.
We shouldn't need tens of thousands
of Dollars to learn "human values" as a management
system and theory only in ivy league colleges!
We should not need to work for
a Fortune 500 company to be taught such values!
The majority from the "old school"
within traditional cultures emphatically believe
that humans should not need to be rewarded for
what they consider to be "natural" behaviour.
BUT within the Non Linear era we must acknowledge
our experience and what we see around us. Values
now seem to reemerge as corporate philosophy -
ONLY AFTER and the economic condition has become
strong and employees are well paid. ( While there
are gratefully the exceptions, the successful
majority insist they started with the philosophy
- Facts, however do not confirm this). Without
intending to moralize - we need to acknowledge
that successful systems ( successful companies)
infact have to reward in economic terms ( great
compensation) their employees to use human values
( customer care) in normal day to day commercial
activity.
Beyond philosophy, this actually
saves and makes money in real terms.
Paradox: Business is paying
more and more for integrity and yet losing more
and more to economic crime. We therefore still
retain our old thinking and accept the teaching
that "good human values" must be an inherent trait
in all humans and usually a "free-of- Cost" attainment
and pre - qualification for all humans as part
of a society. ( A correct hope - but it is not
happening ).
It is necessary to bring human
values back by economic motivation - only then
can we consider it an available input and THEN
PERHAPS ONE DAY as we did in the past take it
for granted to be a natural trait in most humans.