A Corruption Solution Summary By Arun Arora
The current Indian political scenario is the worst it has been since its inception. But what is it, that is making the politics and politicians go so pathetic? What has happened to the people who are responsible for governing the nation, and made them so week on their knees that they themselves are unable to stand on feet. What should be done that our leaders accomplish the tasks of designing, executing and implementing path breaking policies?
The answer lies
in the corporate world. India Inc. is achieving and surpassing awesome targets
which at times seem unrealistic. How is corporate world making its growth so
prominent? The magic word is ‘KRA’.
‘Key Result
Areas’
Every employee,
even the smallest one in terms of designation and authority, is assigned a well-defined
job in hand. S/he is allotted a limited time frame, the famous expression called
‘the lead time’ to perform and deliver
results. The results are compared to the already set, predefined, predesigned,
well communicated targets. Any deviation is thoroughly studied and worked upon.
There exists an appraisal process at the end of a fixed time frame, usually bi-annual,
to analyze the performance and, reward or stick the concerned, based on the KRAs
achieved.
Here is the
catch, when every small company can function in such tremendously organized
manner, why the biggest functioning body that is supposed to function to let
everybody else be functional, is not adopting the system. Why our ministers
can’t be bound and directed by their roles and not by their names.
A Cartoon By Abhishek Tiwari
Why can’t an MP/MLA
be elected on probation basis. When corporates hire someone, it is always a
temporary employment with direct mention in the contract (offer letter) that
the company reserves the right to expel if you are not found ‘appropriate’. The
probationary period varies from 6 months to a year. After the said period, the
company evaluates the performance of the new joinee and decides accordingly
whether to retain him for the future or not.
Why can’t this
be the case with our Electoral system? The MPs and MLAs should be elected for a
probationary period. Their KRAs should be meticulously defined. Their work should
be questioned on completion of probation and accordingly be given a red or
green signal consequently.
Further they should
be appraised every year, based on the same KRAs. If they pass, handsome rewards
will follow; else they should be shown the same door from where they were made
to enter.
When a salaried
employee cannot consider a job permanent on his own, how are we giving a
‘servant’ a permanent job without even getting to know what work s/he is
undertaking once elected, forget about evaluating the same. We certainly cannot
afford such leniencies in this country, especially now.
A Cartoon By Shankar Pamarthy
Nobody can be
authorized without fixing responsibility, another fundamental management rule.
Defining the role of every chosen leader, confirming them on the basis of their
probationary performance, appraising them every year, treating everyone on
merit, and defining KRAs could only make people who are key to the growth and
success of our nation, stop doing ‘nothing’ and faking ‘everything’ to doing
‘something’.
Hire them, try
them, test them, finalize them for being result oriented, check them, recheck
them, assign them tasks, fix targets, ask for report card at the end of the
assigned tenure, reward them for performing and definitely punish them for each
and every nonperformance whatsoever. Nobody is forever and we are not here to
be taken for granted. We have been lame ducks; we need to be roaring tigers.
Let KRAs, not
politicians, rule this country…
By Arun Arora
