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Opinion Re: “The Sun Rises In The West”
Book on communication with employees   The Bombay Chambers of Commerce and Industry has published a booklet entitled “The sun rises in the west – the managerial viewpoint ” discussing how best could the relations be established between the management and employees in an industry.   The 56-page booklet, priced Rs.20, is in the form of a monograph consisting of a few selected employer-employee communications sent out by Mr. H.C. Parekh, general manager (Powai), Larsen & Toubro, in the past seven years.   It is felt that those who are in need of evolving a healthy human relationship in a mechanical environment could benefit from the compiled communications in this book highlighting the manager’s attempts to try to establish a continuous wave-length with those working in his organisatoin.
Date of opinion letter : 13.4.1987	TIMES OF INDIA

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Opinion re: “ The Sun Rises In The West ”
Dear Heman,    Thank you for sending me the note and the reflections that you have shared with your colleagues and I need hardly say how interesting the enclosures are.   I have not yet quite decided in what form I should explicate the specific adventures in which you have been engaged over the years in L&T.   The format of the book as it emerges makes me feel that your part in L&T should be woven in an out of the narrative scattered across the book.   This would have the advantage of putting these vital inputs in the  context of the whole.    On the other hand I am also torn with the need to fulfil my own enthusiasm for this unique contribution by making it a separate chapter exclusively handling the philosophy of participation.    I can well believe that the spirit of this approach which you have  objectified and made into policy must have been inherent in L&T over its history because of the style of work of its first partners   But I find I am somewhat hobbled in writing a separate chapter on account of not having a historical run down of its evolution.   I have the facts but do not possess the cementing tissues. I don’t know how to get it. If I can get it I would put it as a separate chapter in the book.  Otherwise it would be prominent but not quite so emphasised as I would like it to be.   With highest regards and best wishes.
23rd July, 1987	Raghava R. Menon   Author - "L&T Story"