Last week , TOYOTA company announced that it is
planning to introduce a " tele commute " system , which will allow
some 25,000 employees ( more than one - third of its work force ) , to do most
of their work from home
This plan will cover employees working in following
functional areas :
* Human Resource /
Accounts / Sales
/ Research & Development / Engineering
And will embrace :
* Those who
have been working for TOYOTA for over 5 years
* Those
working in Company's headquarters
Methodology being adopted :
* TOYOTA is
negotiating the plan with Trade Unions ( - negotiate to make employees happy ? )
REASON ?
* TOYOTA
management believes that tele-commuting will improve work-life balance of
concerned employees
Coming from TOYOTA , this ( reasoning ) is NOT a
surprise ! It is totally believable !
In support of my belief , I reproduce below , a part of
a letter that I sent to 7500
employees of L&T ( individual copies in English and in
Marathi ) , on 21 Feb
1985 (
titled , " Instant Industrial Relations
?
" ) :
"........what a sharp contrast
to know that two personnel managers of Toyota company
began a pilgrimage in 1952, to talk with employees in small
discussion-groups, at their homes, after work-hours, in an
attempt to re-establish mutual dialogue.
On an average, they made three
visits a night, coming home after nine
o'clock, six days a week ...... The two managers had to
continue their itenerary
for ten years, before
they were convinced that their mission was finally completed
Ten years / 9000 families / one hour
with each family - all to re-establish mutual dialogue !
In the enclosed article
on
"Industrial
Relations in Japan" ,
you will come across many examples
of the Japanese tenacity when it comes to building trust between
groups of employees - by whatever name called.
A few months back, MR. MISU,
one-time director of HITACHI, said,
"As individuals, Japanese people
are not very brilliant. We have won only 4 Nobel-prizes in all these years against
109 won by the Americans.
But when it
comes to working
collectively as a team, we are almost unbeatable ! "
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At a point in time when Governments (
Central + States ) are crying hoarse about urgent need for " Labour
Reforms " , it is time to sit back and ask :
" How urgently do we need some MANAGEMENT
ATTITUDE REFORMS ?
Or , has WORKER PARTICIPATION
IN MANAGEMENT , become an
obsolete concept ?
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14
June 2016
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