Star company

Organization wants to hire the best and brilliant talents. Companies often approach most elite education institutions to seek such a talents. In fact, some of these organizations struggle to retain brightest employees, building cohesive team and increase competitive advantage. Why companies unable to meet intended goals by bringing brainiest people? When we looked at Enron, a company that vowed to attract the brainiest and most high-powered people in its field, and who promised that spending a few years there would give them the skills and mindset they needed to do whatever they wanted with the rest of their lives, and we know how that turned out.

If a system is not strategize well and fully integrate with supporting operational functions, no company would succeed in ever changing world. There is a difference between attracting brainiest talents and building a brilliant system. The most successful organizations are the one where the system is the star.

To build such a system, Initiations should come from the top most people, especially owners and the most senior management team. Companies must utilize and tap every single talents, and technologies which may help to gain competitive advantage. Embracing to technology smoothen the operations and produces good results. Furthermore, cultural influences are another factor that needs to be addressed to build such a system.

Star company

International Women’s Day

When we celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, I wonder whether we have achieved anything in protecting the rights of women. It is common belief in our society that fighting for rights of women is western sponsored anti-Islamic ideology. In my opinion everyone must get equal chance to make living, education and participation in politics. No society will be developed if they had neglected the rights of women. Research shows that number of women hold white color job is dramatically increasing year after year. Since women are 50% of our society, why shouldn’t we engage them to boost our economy?

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank encourage developing countries to use export-led growth to expand their economies. Such globalized economies require a labor force of a size that must include women. In many cases, cultural barriers, especially in the relationship between women and men within households and communities, impede increased economic participation, or undermine the quality of that participation. For example, even women who do work face differential treatment such as wage gaps and segregation into traditionally female industries. Women have historically borne the burden of non-monetized labor, such as child care and domestic work.

While significant advances have been made in advancing women’s political participation in recent years, women are still under-represented in governance structure and people’s Majlis (legislation assembly). In any given participating State, women’s political participation usually depends both on broad social, economic and cultural factors, and on the electoral and political systems, particularly the rules governing political parties.

International Women’s Day

Why change fail?

t’s estimated that up to 70 percent of new progames that were put into action fail. Be it a policy or introduction of a new technology or rebranding of a company. Why change effort does not produce any change or give results? We often buy things that may not fit into our society. We love stability, so we think a system that works well in one country may fit into ours with no modification. That is the typical mindset we all have. In fact, every human society is unique. It might be duce to their culture, belief system or geographic location.

When we want to adopt or bring a change, first we have to know the differences and similarities among ourselves. We can only build an empire based on common goal and interests. We have to let go some of our goals that are not similar with our partners. That is something that we all need to understand. We should communicate the big picture that you have in your mind. Success of change effort depends on the degree of conviction people have on the new beginning. Information that was seen useful and timely concerning the change favorably impact people’s attitude about the planed change.

If we failed to communicate reasons clearly why we need to experience new things or need to change, people start to resist one way or the other. It’s because people may think it doesn’t give any good to them and it might be general. If we don’t consider cultural factor, change might bring additional problem and conflict between existing culture and what is to be changed.

Why change fail?

Work life balance

Would you hire a workaholic candidate for a newly started business? Would you marry a workaholic person? If you ask a first question to an employer he might say yes. But if you ask a second question to a husband or wife to be, you would get a different answer. In fact, depending on the type of the job that involves high level stress and dreary, the employer might also say NO to a first question. For instance, if a doctor is working excessively with no rest, the chances of making mistakes involuntarily would very high.

So that work-life balance is important. Work-life balance is assigning and prioritizing time to all factors that helps individual to attain “satisfaction” without depriving the needs of another factor. The most important factors include Family, Self, Employer, Friends and Religion. Furthermore, it could be divided into two "work" (career and ambition) on one side and "life" (pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development) on the other.

Unfortunately many managers encourage the employees to work long hours. Often we see “able to be work long hours” as one of the requirements in order to qualify for the job. Research shows that healthy and balanced work-life is related to increase in productivity in the long run. Some managers are too concerned for short term results than the long term benefits. As a result, those managers give additional pressure to the employees. In the meantime, these employees also get pressure from family as well as friends. In the end, the employees’ stress level increases and affect their productivity.

People do perceive work-life balance differently. While women are

positive on balancing their life style, when men see it negatively and found less important.

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Work life balance

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