Wonder whether setting a time limit and allocating a specific time in one's day schedule for blogging will really result in blogging! Anyway, guess i am going to try that out :)
Today was a different day. Instead of going to office, everybody went to a conference hall in a hotel for a day long presentations. Yes, that sounds quite depressing. But actually, it wasn't that bad! I liked it. It was nice to know as how the company fared last year, what went wrong, why, what next, challenges ahead...Ofcourse, the one thing which is on top of every one's mind is Job security. And there were quite a few discussions and interpretations out of the presentations and questions asked as well. And as usual, there were diplomatic replies that they don't have a list in their pockets(yet?) and are uncertain about future job cuts. Only advice was to work harder and make oneself indispensable and highly valuable to the company...
All these presentations made me draw parallels with my first company...
We did have similar presentations,but it was all in the company itself.
Also, the slides used to contain more words and graphs... here, there were more lively pictures and videos than words... Pictures were so common that i wondered whether these guys are following it as a template! (bcos, at few instances, the pictures weren't relevant)
And i found one word to be missing in the company values presentation. It is "Ethics". I am not saying that the company doesn't consider "Ethics" as one of its values. It is considered as part of one of the values. Also, it's so important that Code of conduct was one of the first mandatory courses for individuals.
But still, absence of that word is quite different from my first company. If there is one thing which has been totally imbibed on me because of my first company, then it's "Ethics" (while "Protection of Proprietary Information" comes second :)) . Because "Ethics & Integrity" were the core principles stressed in all different manners there and i found it quite surprising for it not to be present as a main value in the top level itself!
Maybe, this is what cultural difference is all about...because, even here, they emphasize on the same value, but the way it's portrayed and worded is different...
Anyway, this made me wonder how one's first job impacts an individual directly as well as indirectly....
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and in the light of Satyam fiasco, it comes to mind more often than not as to even if it is emphasised, is Ethics just an HR or corporate buzz word or is it something more. and i have rarely seen these things flowing from top to bottom. In India atleast, be it private or govt, school or college, these things have been the duties of lower layers and verbal ornaments for upper layers of any institution.
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