Article - 60 Week 18 Fear Vs Productivity In Our Workplace

Article - 60 Week 18

Fear Vs Productivity In Our Workplace

Fear is a natural emotion for our self protection. Self protection again is a learned process - through real own experience, watching others experience or being told by others. As a child, when we burn on our finger on fire, we fear any flame. When we see our younger sibling getting an electric shock from a naked electric cable, we stay away from it. Or when our grand mother tells us of an ugly ghost behind the house to swoon down on lone children, we stay away from the place. Therefore, this emotions called 'fear' is mostly a matter of nurture, away from the realities of its consequences. We continue to dread a ghost having experienced none nor seeing others experience a ghost.

In our workplaces, this conditioning has been overdone to the point of scuttling our creativity and productivity. Growing from the ashes of a feudal, imperial and caste system, there stands a culture of great divide between the ranks in our work places. The juniors are implicitly conditioned to keep their free minds and opinions to themselves and speak what the higher rank-holder expects to hear. 'Speak when you are spoken to or get the hell out' is the binding philosophy. So a senior would clobber any voice of dissent if it remotely challenges or is perceived by him to challenge his authority. This control virus affects the entire chain of command making it appear more like a Mogul durbar's intrigues.

The problem is that this virus is hard to kill in a society where age, caste, pedigree, schooling, connections, and even the language or accent is revered, simply because it is being passed down as the unquestioned tradition. When you kill this at the top, it mushrooms at the middle or at the bottom of the pyramid. The only way to eradicate this virus is through celebrating merit and completely ignoring the other ghastly parameters conditioned in our heads for millenniums. 

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Brgds

Capt Rath