A Different Perspective to No Work, No Pay

We all wish that we have a pocket full of cash or a bank account with copious amount of fund in it. Yet, wishes rarely become reality and reality doesn’t allow wishes to sneak, it just stays unfulfilled wish on the wish list.

So stemming from these unmet desires, youth resort to different means of taking out the smoldering frustration out at the 1% of the population who get to live out their dream, with actions such as strikes, vandalism and affray. Yet, worse is the scenario of working youth and the middle age workers where their demands for high scale pay and unmet facilities give rise to acts such as strikes in the working space resulting in crores of loss in human asset, fixed and other financial assets; not forgetting the losses in terms of business put down to drain due to un matched demands by clients or customers.

Similar was the scene that hit Springwood a while back, where the close to thousand females’ bred basket was put on the ground for the politically affiliated union’s two, three males to kick it like football and score at the wrong end. Those politically affiliated unions put up demands which were preposterously insane and demanded something out of the league for the owners of Springwood. Thus this dispute resulted in closure of the factory leading to damage to their goodwill in terms of unhappy clients in the European Market. They lost their clientele business in the European market and thus incurred losses in Millions of Euro. The factory was shut down and the families of those close to thousand working females were out of jobs and taken to be thrown in the lurch.

So the question is who is to blame for this? Even though the question is merely rhetoric, yet answering it might point the finger of the culprit towards anyone of us. So now we seek solution to this. What would it take for organizations to keep their employees happy by meeting their demands and tying up them with the company’s good will? Even though different measures have been tried and tested to mitigate this woe of the medium to large scale business houses and industries, there are still so many loopholes they are yet to be put under the scanner of the meticulous eyes of the critique who may just contextualize similar solution to be tested in Nepal.

It is about giving stake to the employees but one might argue that giving out bonuses like in financial institutions, big corporations like NCell have been trying out this. Yet, this union and employee issue is imminent and financial woes beckon in the future. So, what is it that could hit the bulls’ eye and knit-pick the issues’ core cause and hit it for total eradication?

Then there comes strategies that huge international corporations like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, ebay have been employing and it is about giving 30% of the stake to the employees. Then they could be provided with benefits either from that basket of 30% stake or having a different basket like the Employees’ Provident Fund that is the highlight of Government jobs; this is the very reason, most Nepalese see it as the most lucrative of the features that has majority of the citizens pouring into government jobs.

So, how does it work and how will the scenario change? Now, analytically scrutinizing this situation, we could see that daily wage earners or salaries earners will be at loss for each day, or every hour gone at waste in protest for their unmet demands as they themselves are stake holders. If this plan is scrupulously read out to the employees they would know that harder they toil at work, better is the business and greater is the company’s profit and  greater is the bonus plus funds dropped into their basket in their shareholders’ account. Thence they would see their time, dedication to hard work as investment.

With a bit of thought into this, one would be motivated to work harder if they were given more incentives to work and if the stake for benefits were to be raised for every best performer at each level in the organization, better might be the input in terms of hard work, dedication and honesty towards work. Then the employees, who are affiliated to various unions from various political factions, will understand the notion of “No Work, No Pay” and the implications of vandalism in the streets, offices and various other places where they take out the wrath emanating from their misconception of underpaid and unfair jobs and/or management.