Abstract management and professionalism b.v.raghunandan

Abstract Management & Professionalism-B.V.Raghunandan, SVS College, Bantwal

Poornapragna Institute of Management, UdupiMarch 4, 2013

Management-An Abstract Art

• Management is a Quality as also entrepreneurship

• Should be Professionalism• Professionalism is a total

dedication to work, institution and society

• So defined as it is needed to energise the society

• Goes beyond the narrow confines of profit or compensation

Perversions of Concepts

• Supporting Individualism • Personal Greed• Division into Workers and Managerial Cadre• Workers are Considered Aliens-Hire and Fire• Managers become Demi-gods beyond Doubt and

Accountability-Hopping from Job to Job• Success at Any Cost and Means became Irrelevant

Bandwagon• All Supporting Services accepted the perversions• Systems were Developed to Support the Perversions• High Sounding Words used to Describe the Perversions• On the Job Learning became Insignificant• Ivy League Colleges

Only US Contribution• Other Countries Have

Management different from the US Practices

• These are not Documented• They are Carried on as

Practices• Contrarian, but Successful

Practices of Europe, India ,China and Russia

• As management is absract, no effort is made to codify it

Non-Professionalism

• Double Talk• Yes Boss Culture• Conflict of Interest• Wandering Gypsies• Sexual Partiality• Board Room Politics• Excessive Managerial

Remuneration• Non-Institutional Work

Double Talk• Consumer is King• Environmental Concerns• Societal Concerns• International

Organisations• Lack of Transparency• Vision and Mission

Statements• Patent Rights• Stealth Technology

Yes Boss Culture

• Institutional Interest Ignored• Groupism & Favouritism• Hubris• Consensus Culture• Nurturing Support Base• Discrimination• Demotivation

Conflict of Interest

• Personal Interest• Vested Interest• Empire Building• Anti Consumer

Stand• Coteries

Formation• Quid Pro Quos• Creation of

Lobbies

Wandering Gypsies• Job Hopping• Time Spent with Head Hunters• Growing Weightage of Head Hunters• Profit Manipulation• Lack of Long Range Planning• Spending Time in Clubs• Lack of Institutional Loyalty

Sexual Favours• People Employed for the

Looks• People Spent More Time in

Appearances• Out of the Way

Promotions• Managerial Rivalry• Sexual Harassment in Work

Place• ‘Fixing the People’• Broken Homes

Board Room Politics

• Most Dangerous and Toxic• Achievers and Credit Claimers• Non-Professional Board Members• Time Spent in Cultivating Lobbies among the Board Members• Quid Pro Quos

Excessive Managerial Remuneration• Remuneration• Perquisites• Bonus and Commission• Compensation

• Inclusion of Family Members

• Membership of Clubs• Need to Maintain Scale

Non-Institutional Work

• Time Spent on Unproductive Activities• Too Much Socialising• Planned Holidays

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