Every working professional today is yearning for more and more monetary payoffs for work, effort and performance. Imagine a situation where you get your salary for not contributing any value on the job, no accountability, no performance monitoring - basically being paid for your physical presence in the office premises (sounds tempting doesn't it) but this situation is like a glitter that looks like gold in the dark but it isn't truly gold, let me explain - Lets split work into three different dimensions 1. Challenge for self, 2. Contribution to the organization and 3. Personal and professional growth;
1. Challenge for Self: Every Human being today has learnt and realized the meaning of self worth and as we discover more about ourselves we put out creative juices and hard work into action, this is the adrenaline state that keeps every professional energized not demeaning the external factors like organizational climate, team work and nature of work but Challenges in life and at work help us self actualize and fulfill our potential. A professional with challenges at work will accomplish much more than the ones who do not have any. Imagine the nightmare of getting to work and do not have any task to be completed or agenda to be fulfilled, what would you do to keep yourself occupied for 9 hours on an average 5 days per week in the office premises. Facebook, Linked in, Internet surfing, research, personal agendas would all this be good enough to keep you occupied for all the time you have at work.
2. Contribution to the Organization: Every organization existing today has goals and milestones that it strives to achieve and every employee in the organizational pyramid has a very critical role to play in the journey of an organization from its inception to turning into a multi-million or billion dollar company. Tasks that are collectively accomplished by the group of employees determines the organizational performance and when an organization succeeds it in turn pays off for every employee in the form of equity or appraisals. The prime need of any organization is that each professional that is hired delivers on the assigned job role and hence from peons to Chairman all have their critical part to play "Just like - har ek friend zaroori hota hai, for any given company - Har ek employee zaroori hota hai"
3. Personal and Professional Growth: Every successful professional today has a journey of accomplishments and failures that (s)he has achieved / persevered to get to where they are today. It is human instinct that when we achieve something 97% of people would attempt to go to a higher level of accomplishment and this ultimately becomes a tendency to consistently keep competing with one self leading to individual growth and professional excellence and hence ones occupation plays a very important role in shaping the individuals career and overall personality of the individual.
The fourth dimension of work is the monetary payoff every month we call "Salary"or as an HR jargon "Compensation". while this statement might hit you hard but it is the truth, "The most important part of work is work itself and not money".
Most people generalize money for success and means for satisfaction but the masters of HR fraternity have researched and modeled several papers and theories that from a professional perspective money is a short term motivator for any individual who is looking for professional excellence as without work proposition and challenge each individual will have a diminishing work satisfaction that no amount of money will be able to fulfill affecting the individuals balance professionally and psychologically. It is the quality of work, occupancy during work hours, work challenges and accomplishing that which has never been done before is the instinct that gets a professional Head & Heart on the job and that is where excellence and work satisfaction lies.
"Work is the most precious gift from an organization to an employee", every professional that regards work as a gift and accepts the same with the package of challenges at work both personal and professional will excel in his or her domain of expertise.
"Embrace your work each day and do your best with a zest."
Food for Thought: Each and every one of us are very happy when we see our bank account credited with our monthly pay out, how many of us truly question ourselves whether i have earned it to get it?
1. Challenge for Self: Every Human being today has learnt and realized the meaning of self worth and as we discover more about ourselves we put out creative juices and hard work into action, this is the adrenaline state that keeps every professional energized not demeaning the external factors like organizational climate, team work and nature of work but Challenges in life and at work help us self actualize and fulfill our potential. A professional with challenges at work will accomplish much more than the ones who do not have any. Imagine the nightmare of getting to work and do not have any task to be completed or agenda to be fulfilled, what would you do to keep yourself occupied for 9 hours on an average 5 days per week in the office premises. Facebook, Linked in, Internet surfing, research, personal agendas would all this be good enough to keep you occupied for all the time you have at work.
2. Contribution to the Organization: Every organization existing today has goals and milestones that it strives to achieve and every employee in the organizational pyramid has a very critical role to play in the journey of an organization from its inception to turning into a multi-million or billion dollar company. Tasks that are collectively accomplished by the group of employees determines the organizational performance and when an organization succeeds it in turn pays off for every employee in the form of equity or appraisals. The prime need of any organization is that each professional that is hired delivers on the assigned job role and hence from peons to Chairman all have their critical part to play "Just like - har ek friend zaroori hota hai, for any given company - Har ek employee zaroori hota hai"
3. Personal and Professional Growth: Every successful professional today has a journey of accomplishments and failures that (s)he has achieved / persevered to get to where they are today. It is human instinct that when we achieve something 97% of people would attempt to go to a higher level of accomplishment and this ultimately becomes a tendency to consistently keep competing with one self leading to individual growth and professional excellence and hence ones occupation plays a very important role in shaping the individuals career and overall personality of the individual.
The fourth dimension of work is the monetary payoff every month we call "Salary"or as an HR jargon "Compensation". while this statement might hit you hard but it is the truth, "The most important part of work is work itself and not money".
Most people generalize money for success and means for satisfaction but the masters of HR fraternity have researched and modeled several papers and theories that from a professional perspective money is a short term motivator for any individual who is looking for professional excellence as without work proposition and challenge each individual will have a diminishing work satisfaction that no amount of money will be able to fulfill affecting the individuals balance professionally and psychologically. It is the quality of work, occupancy during work hours, work challenges and accomplishing that which has never been done before is the instinct that gets a professional Head & Heart on the job and that is where excellence and work satisfaction lies.
"Work is the most precious gift from an organization to an employee", every professional that regards work as a gift and accepts the same with the package of challenges at work both personal and professional will excel in his or her domain of expertise.
"Embrace your work each day and do your best with a zest."
Food for Thought: Each and every one of us are very happy when we see our bank account credited with our monthly pay out, how many of us truly question ourselves whether i have earned it to get it?
Good Bhushan, looking forward for more such articles from you.
ReplyDeleteThank you Essay. I will try and bring in more quality content, news and updates from HR Fraternity along with some light HR organizational Humor to have a healthy and balanced mix.
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