Rupesh is experiencing symptoms of depression nowadays. He is in regular touch with his consultant psychiatrist. Well, many of his colleagues have a lot of sympathy for him."
"He should be able to come out soon” hoped his co-worker Rajesh. “But you see, he would need a change of seat if he has to become normal”, argues Himani.
“The problem is with his boss. This lady has really made him mad.” Claimed Vikrant.
“The problem doesn’t lie with the boss, Vikrant. The problem is his own making. His main problem is that he isn’t a ‘smart worker’, Abhilasha intervened.
“Not a smart worker? What does it mean?’
“Listen. I know Rupesh for the last five years. He has won the “Star worker” award continuously three years, thanks to his boss. But how did it happen? Was it because he is a smart worker? No. he had a singular agenda of keeping the boss happy. He always attended to their errands. He was happy to do a lot of personal favours and hence he failed to learn on the job. When this new lady, took over, she found him absolutely below the basics of the KPA (Key performance areas). She never wanted him to spend a minute in her chamber without any official business. No loose talks, No favours. ... She focused on his work. Unfortunately, he finds it difficult to get into a professional approach. He hasn’t been like that for the last five years. He finds that she is unwilling to tolerate his inadequacies.”
“Of course, I agree with you. Because he has been friendly to all of us, we know that he is indeed a good person, but not a professional material.” Himani accepted.
“Goodness is one thing, professionalism is another.” Commented Abhilasha.
“What advice do you think you would have given if you were his boss?” asked Vikrant mischievously.
“Thanks Vikrant for the question. It is not only for him, but applies to all of us. Here are a few:
1. Be Professional at work 2. Stay focused on your KPA 3. Plan your work and process of delivery 4. Manage your time 5. Count on your productivity 6. Learn on the job 7. Don’t personalize official relationships 8. Don’t carry the load of your work to home 9. Speak the Truth 10. Admit if you are wrong. 11. Don’t put your problems under the carpet 12. Count on your achievements rather than others failures 13. Learn the work-Life balance 14. Don’t let your goodness be taken as weakness 15. Celebrate competence and not achievements.
“Wow.” Said Vikrant “Abhilasha you should have gone as a HR Triner”
“Thanks “ said Abhilasha and walked away.
Rupesh holds a Master’s degree in Business administration. He is handsome, interactive, quiet and tolerant. He has the unique capacity of reaching out to people and helping them out even at the cost of his own personal time and personal life requirements.
Sajni, his young wife, married to him for the last four years has threatened to move away from him. “He never comes from his office before 9 or 10 in the night. You ask him any day, he says there is so much of work to do. Back home, he is on his computer table till midnight. There is nothing called a personal life to him. After all, I am also an MBA and I work with an MNC. The office never tells to lose our personal life at the cost of our work. Most often we have wrong aspirations and wrong ways of working.”
The consultant psychiatrist gave the following comment about him. “Mr. Rupesh suffers from low self-esteem. In order to get recognition, and to be always being noticed, he engages with people with all sorts of work, including some errand, so that everyone is pleased with him and commends him as an important person and always wanted. The moment he finds lack of recognition, he goes into a self-defeating mode and feels ‘all is lost’ “
Mr. Vidhani, the HR Manager observes “Rupesh is intelligent, hardworking, exhibits skills of learnability but he always sets wrong priorities. During the periods of half-yearly assessment, he always goes around asking people “I am sure you consider me as one of your best employees.” Indeed, that does reveal his fear of not being rated well professionally.”
Rupesh is not an exclusion in any organizational environment. Whatever be the domain of performance, there are a few employees who tend to compensate their professional inadequacies through other engagements be it personal, organizational or other aggressive modes of communication.
Sibi – an employee of the accounts department of an automobile company was pulled up by his Head for several careless mistakes that would have indeed costed much. “I do apologize sir, but you know, I am so much absorbed with the cultural events for the HR department, my mind somehow slips from some details.”
“Sibi, all your additional features and competencies do not compensate your actual assignments” advised his boss. “Better take notice, otherwise I have to report to GM.” And now-a-days, Sibi, is busy finding fault with his boss for his haughty, authoritative style of working and projects him as a poor leader.
Rupesh and Sibi are but a few examples which the HR departments should have taken notice of quite early. Nurturing professional competencies, mentoring professional excellence are some of the keen functions of the HR department.
Well, in so far as the past of Rupesh is concerned, even his boss failed in his duties by ‘using’ him because he was willing to compromise on some basic professional inadequacies. Possibly he would also have needed mentoring on professional domains.
Let us wish Rupesh an early return to his work as a competent professional!
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