Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Formula For Job Safety

a * {Effort spent for the Company}
Job Safety =
+ b * {Effort spent for the Manager} * (log({No.of Employees}) - c)
log({No.of Employees + 1})


Where a, b, and c are constants.

For those who are not very good at formulas,

If you want high job safety, If the no.of employees in the company is very high, then work for your manager (i.e., do what your manager has asked, even if it is not good for the company).
If the no.of employees in the company is less, then work for the company.

Sometimes, the employees face dilemma whether to do something in the interest of the company or the manager. Manager may say something which is not good for the company. If the employee does not listen to the manager, then the manager may want to get rid of him/her, and the employee's job will not be secure. If the employee just listens to the manager and helps in implementing the bad decisions and finally brings huge losses to the company, then the entire company/project may land in trouble, and everyone in the company/team may lose job.

The control that manager has, is directly proportional to the size of the company. If the company is big, then the manager gets more control, and he/she can take decisions at his/her level, or make others to support his/her (even bad) decisions. If the company is small, then he cannot just do whatever he/she wants to do. Also, if the manager is continuously taking bad decisions, then his/her job will be in trouble.

If the company is small, and if you are not having regular interactions with the top management, don't think that, they will just listen to your manager and they do not know what you are doing.

If the company is big, and if you are having regular interactions with the top management, don't think that, they know what you are doing and they do not listen to your manager.

If the company is big, and if you work for the company, then you cannot work for the company.

3 comments:

  1. Man, you must be an economist specialized in human relations. Or you must be having a really bad boss at work. I fail to understand why one cannot get a good boss in a good company to work for

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  2. does ur boss know u have this blog?

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  3. I have not told him. But, it is not difficult for anyone to find out my blog.

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