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When I recently attended a farewell in a Bank, I felt the absence of that culture today in most industry. People hop jobs for more salary today, but the salary remains more balanced in Public sector with the constant increase thro DA and increments. But with a job span of over thirty years in the same organization if not in the same office also gets them the benefit of fulfillment of intangible human needs like appreciation, respect, recognition and esteem. While farewell is inevitably offered in most government offices, a spontaneous and widespread participation by those who revere the person and his contribution makes it a memorable day for the individual who feels that all the pain and pressure that the job role offered were worth undergoing again, when he hears of the acknowledgement of his contribution. Sadly this culture is not prevalent in present day organizations where a parting is symbolized by a lunch or dinner outside the office often in alcoholic aroma. ...

Leadership always has a battle on hand. Whether to offer justice or favor? Favor fetches loyalties and huge favor in terms of money, power and patronage to further the threesome brings in loyalists. Loyalty is more of an isolated faithfulness that vanishes with time as well as denial of further favors. But loyalists having tasted the benefit of loyalty to power choose to support the leadership irrespective of their corrupt, criminal and even immoral acts and also turn as spokesperson to defend or deny the wrongs as they are elements of the beneficiary as well as conduit to the wrong. Justice is widely liked and easily forgotten as people believe they deserve it. Justice is also not realized as justice till acts of injustice start as part of the system. Leaders indulge in justice for overall good image, support of good Samaritans and also inevitably. Justice when met out as punishment especially through imprisonment or death also has huge emotional facet that leaders pr...

"Don't resign. What happens to my prestige if you resign?" these were the comments of a teenage girl to her mother who was a doctor. They lived in an industrial township where a hospital supported the huge residential colony. The girl has seen her mother being revered and greeted with respect as they walked around the colony, in the super market as also in the village vegetable market. Obviously the girl prided among friends about the mother being doctor much to the envy of students whose mothers were not on job or were in lesser strata of job. But the same girl as a child below five years cried everyday as the mother left for office and also as she grew swore that she would not go for job more so as a doctor since she has seen the disturbance of telephone calls at home that often snatched her mother from her due to emergencies. The nuisance created by the job in the love from mother was virtually haunting her as a child.  But teenage is the gateway to ...