Sunday, January 19, 2014

Engineering Company and People Company..

I was just thinking about a company being an engineering company or people company. We incidentally might have heard so many success stories on a people company became an engineering company. But as thought evolve, it may be practical to be an engineering company than a people company. But that’s exactly my thought point. Which one is more practical or productive, being an engineering company or people company?

Well, let me clarify my thought on what I meant by an engineering company or people company. An engineering company is a company that driven by the engineering concepts by not giving much value to the small aspects of human beings. It’s not a pleasure or happiness oriented company, but will be driven by the engineering concepts to break into the productivity at most. Well, productivity always matters.

And when I told about the people company, it’s all about, driven by the healthy environment created by the multiple aspects driven to be a people happy organization. So what or when it does really makes the difference to be an engineering company or people oriented company. Well, we should have a mechanism to measure whether a company is an engineering company or people company. A people company will have so much of people oriented jobs as human himself is created from a trouble called explosion.

My thoughts was triggering to the specific point when I happened to see the scenarios, where people get satisfied or get the objective or goals by being transferred from a people company. A people company will be spending money on people. 

For instance, I heard a scenario on which a company cut the cost on the tea cups. Employees had to pay for the tea cups. This survived the organization to achieve the objective goal on a recession time. But eventually they resulted in implementing the same sort more implementations. This would have helped them in achieving the objective of goals. This specific scenario is sort of conversion from a people company to engineering conceptual oriented company. Let me tell you well before that if they were not having such a plan on recession time, it would have been a titanic, not the movie but the ship. Well, my thought is on a happy time. My thought is on sharing the happiness.

In fact this specific subject was the discussion thread on my mind. Being a transfer from a people oriented company to engineering company happens exactly on a place here. People creates wonder on cutting the costs. But are they really cutting the cost on a longer time. Do they really does it on a longer span. Well, it was my thought to be precise. The company which cut the cost on the tea cups could achieve the objective and more..’The more’..on a longer span. Did they actually achieved the objective or did they do something wrong.


I believe that the energy flowing out in an organization should be coming out from a quantified measurable employee satisfaction. In one way or the other way, there is nothing in this world which is not measurable, so the employee satisfaction. So all the employees or 90% or 80% employees in the organization is satisfied against to the goals achieved. When the organization is not achieving the goals, employees need not be satisfied or then also they can be. It all depends on the leaders precisely.

So again coming to my point, a company which is having target achieved and good employee satisfaction measured on real criteria is having a stronger base or successful company than one which target achieved more with not much employee satisfaction. It’s some point where in people need to give attention. Because nobody would be really interested in satisfying employees, unless its productive, even me also didn’t had such intention to be clear.

So then I would need to reiterate on the same subject on what the employee satisfaction brings us. A company which achieved less but has more employee satisfied will be doing what wonder than a more achieved company with lesser employee satisfaction.

A COMPANY WITH BIGGER EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION BRINGS OR DIGS OUT THE BEST OF RESOURCES. Did I caught some eyes on my matter. Well, my research or my thoughts were driving me to the specific direction. When a company is told by a 95 out of 100 associates that it’s good to live, it brings 2 or 5 best of resources in the industry. Will that pay-off. 2/100 ratio on employee satisfaction or could be more.

So two best in the industry resources are choosing or picking the best in class satisfied employee company, will that pay off to the money spend on the tea cups on company’s leisure times. If they lost two resources because of the reason that they cut the cost on tea cups, did they really achieve the target or goals. Well, my brain has limitation of articles or blogs or movies I see. 

And what makes a company with a better employee satisfaction. Its all about interactions. The more platform a company has on or spend on interactions, the more the employee satisfaction will be. From my perspective, the leaders are my heros. When they interact, I feel the best. When they get to the fields for solving the problems, I am well satisfied. When I am satisfied, I add a small percentage to the overall company satisfaction. Are we an engineering company or people company?

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