Corporeal Death in an Organization

Professionalism always demands from a person to have a suitable and a composed mix of behavioral elements in it along with particular knowledge and skills to perform the role for which one is being hired in an organization. When organizations hire beginners at their initial levels, it requires them to have huge patience to train them and to make them proficient enough to conform to the organizational norms and values. It depends on an individual’s mental temperament and the circumstances prevalent at that time that how swiftly he or she conforms to this.

 As compared to those employees who are in the middle level category in the organizations these new ones require more time for understanding the concept behind compliance to these values and showing all these understandings through their actions. This more time is required not only for the sake of being an active part of the team but also for the transition from being an amateur to professional.

All of this is a normal cycle of anyone’s professional life. But the story lies within it. It is a common trend in the corporate world today that you have to move forward in order to grow and it is a fact. Every organization has its own values and culture, the more time you spend in it the more emotional ties you create in it. All those efforts which you might have faced in order to grow the plant, make you feel hurt and painful when you are detaching the similar roots of the same tree with your own hands and try to adjust them in a new soul. Even not a bigger one yet even one year’s older.

It is the one side of the picture, the second jolt one might encounter after switching keeping in mind the emotional ties, one has already conformed is the disappearance of the familiar faces and mental understanding of the counterparts and many more things. This is not new it might happens to everyone but this is a very sensitive and sentimental time which causes transition of your death in ABC organization and your Birth in XYZ organization. The trauma of the death and the happiness of your Birth both make you feel weird.

Anyhow time has a dual effect on a human’s life. It is the cruelest and on the other end the most reliable wound healer. It might take time to forget the past and to realize and accept the changes but ultimately one gets accustomed to it. However, this is a battle of your mind and heart in which the heart always loses because in the corporate world there is no place for people with the heart to survive and more formally to say this attitude lacks professionalism. And in the long run if one keeps oneself to be persisted all gets well. 

When I Was Posted To Islamic Banking

When I was chosen for the employment in the bank where I am working now, at that time although I was not satisfied enough, yet there was a feeling that I have achieved something. This feeling of achievement was enhanced when I got to meet my batch mates. They all were very excited and enthusiastic about the job and the organization to which they are going to be a part of.

The training period, atmosphere, the learning process everything was great. We were given the detailed demonstration regarding the job. The first shock we were given was the knowledge of being restricted to the cash department, yet being the main department of the bank it was a great opportunity to learn and grasp the functionality of the life blood of the bank. However, this was a bearable trauma until we were unaware from our posting branches.

The whole training process which on one side was full of informative guidelines and procedures showing us how to work on the other side was seemed to be based on the terror lectures and scary tails regarding the cash department which scared us a lot. The result which we were told in case of cash excess or shortage was enough to terrorize us. Anyhow we all completed the training process being totally unaware of the fact that the last and the final bomb was waiting for us.

The last day of training we were supposed to be given our posting letters. My teachers told me that you are the lucky one with other two guys to be posted in Islamic banking group. Oh my God!!  Good news transformed in the bad news as per my perception touched with the waves of my brain. Nah, no please!!! I am not Islamic type…. I can’t be like the girls in that group,,,, they are pathetic people, rigid mentality, confined to their rigid beliefs, who mix there culture and religion together and show attitude and rigidity, who don’t listen to others just say and do whatever they want. Ahhh!!! No please.

This was my reaction when I got my letter of posting. But when I get into the field and encountered with the people working there, all this opened my eyes. I got to know they are more modernized and liberal in their own shells and these are for their own protection. There is a huge difference between what we perceive and what they really are. The consolation of my teachers became a truthful reality when I compared myself with the other batch mates posted in different groups. A sigh of relief came out….

No doubt, the nature of the job is tough and requires more attention but I feel there is more scope in the job apart from the assigned one until I get the other oneJ.

IMPACT OF DEFLATION AND CURRENCY VALUE ON ECONOMY

Deflation is said to be a state where the inflation rate fall below zero. One thing which needs to be understood before going in the details and discussing the relationship and impact of deflation with different variables we must be specific towards our basic and the core concept. The core concept differentiates deflation from the term which seems similar but different in the process where as deflation is a to the point and specific situation, a scenario which is ultimate and static. However instead of deviating from the main theme of our talk we focus on the specific point which we will discuss later.

The new and different thing about the topic is that while in Pakistan and many other underdeveloped or developing countries are facing the problem of inflation what is the reason of discussing deflation.  The answer to this question is that while the economies of the developing countries are suffering from inflation some economies of some developed countries are suffering from deflation a major example is Japan. To add insult to injury the currency prices also impact in the happening of such situation.

This situation prompts a question in the minds that economy can be prosperous neither in the presence of inflation nor deflation so what will be the suitable situation which could be helpful for an economy to grow.

Waiting or Suffering both are Chaotic

The Gap between internal and external change is known waiting. The process of waiting for something to happen is very chaotic and requires a lot of hassle which a person might suffer in order to go through this period. This gap is not related to some particular situation or a specific person but it can happen to anyone at anytime in life, either personal, professional or whatever it might be. For example, I thought to get an admission on a degree program, it was and internal change which happened to me and it was an inside feeling of mine. But in reality to get a degree I have to pass through an entire period of at least two years, only then I shall be able to cause an external change.

In such a scenario which I have described the gap from the time I thought up to the time I actually got a piece of paper in my hand, that gap was the waiting period for me. The main thing to ponder about after realizing the importance of this fact is that when I made an internal change in myself, I was fully motivated and passionate about getting what I wanted but the longer period of that waiting process in order to cause the external change, declined my level of motivation, now the question arises when I don’t have any motivation how could I pursue that task positively and get it done correctly to get what I want.

In other case for example, I and some other friends of mine got training on a subject as a group which was related to societal change. The contents which were used to make us understand the concepts and the problems we generally face due to that particular issue and the consequences we get as a result were very serious. That issue got our attention at that time, the realization of the importance of that issue and its solution was waken up in our minds and hearts and we all felt the internal change at that point of time. But later on when we came home with the motivation to change the world by telling them the same theories and the conceptual things and to make changes happen in our society and to make other people realize the same feelings, we suffered a disastrous hassle.

And we come around one more ground reality that at this point of time the most important medicine we require is of Patience which will help us to pass the time of that waiting process to make the real and physical change happen.

To my surprise, I came across a concept which I have mostly studied in the Islamic books and it is very famous as well among such people is of patience. To pass through this period to which I have termed waiting or the most commonly advice which is generally given is of patience. But it is not as simple in terms of practice as it might look like while studying as a concept. The question which keeps pinching in my head when I got an idea about this solution of patience to fill out the gap came from persistence. Because to achieve whatever you want in life the only thing you need is persistence, motivation is also important but it depends on the period of time the longer the period becomes the shorter the level of motivation become i.e. there is a strong negative relationship among these two. So it is only the persistence which is the alternative name of patience to achieve anything. But there is one logical difference in persistence and patience. Our Islamic perspective of patience gives us a divine support and increases our motivation level in two ways. Firstly in terms of the goal attainment and secondly the divine mercy and the rewards we shall be able to get in the hereafter. So guys, to avoid suffering or the gap, practice patience because it is positive and rewarding.

Happiness

Happiness is a state of joy which is felt by human beings. Human resource experts explain happiness as an emotion; a positive emotion. There is no particular reason which causes such behavior. There may be different reasons for different people to be happy. Different variables can help in involving in this behavior. For example, a sense of achievement, any factor which can motivate a person can be a cause of happiness.

Happiness is a positive emotion, an extreme opposite to negativity, it accelerates positive mood in oneself which leads to optimism. And it says that behind Peace there’s a peaceful individual, behind violence there’s a violent person, behind imperialism there’s imperialist person and I say that behind an optimist person there’s a happy person.

Some people believe that happiness is a voluntary emotion and it cannot be created. I believe that it can be created artificially in fact I support the concept of “Artificial Happiness”. Because in the depths of darkness a person desperately requires a ray of light which he doesn’t have, there comes artificial happiness.  One more thing is that human beings are very prone to be influenced by others.  The theory of contagion effect says that a person gets emotional influence from other very quickly. So a happy person can spread happiness and can cause positivity in our society.

Artificial Happiness

Happiness itself and to be happy are two different things. The first phenomenon does not guarantee you that you are happy because it is a broad term. This type of happiness can be due to any external reason, and may not belong to you. And when we narrow it down and focus on, being happy it means that this happiness lies within us. This is the most important thing and we shall focus on that.

It is impossible for everyone to be happy all the times; we are human beings so we face ups and downs in our normal lives. But the point is the life of happiness is less than sorrows for us. When find any sorrow in our lives we stick to that always refer to that even ignore the good things around us.

Artificial happiness is a term for an advice we normally hear, that act as you are happy when in actual you are not. It complements the concept of positive thinking. It means that if you confronted with a negative situation, don’t think about that, avoid it, and act as if you are not preoccupied by that situation.

It is said that happiness is a choice you have to make. It is a state of being only you can create.

At times, we are kept in a depressing mode and find no way to get out from that, in that situation one needs to apply this concept on the situation, because at that time the switch of our mind is blown, unable to find any reason to feel good. If we are able at that time to think properly about the solution then why we’ll depress. So we only need a tablet to relief pain. We don’t need or either we want to study how the tablet will be made which will cure me. Like when a patient is dying, feels difficulty in breathing, the doctor doesn’t start thinking that how to find a way to normalize his breath, but he immediately puts oxygen mask on the patient’s mouth to save him. Similarly when we are in a depressing mode, we are actually in a dark situation, what we have to do is to arrange a torch or a tube light, we should not wait for the daylight, or any aid from God or from any person to help us. If we’ll not do that it will have damaging consequences on us, our lives, health, career etc.

This means that it is not necessary to have reason to be happy. This is my life, why should I waste it by thinking and analyzing such things which could make me tense, which are invaluable, and will make my life worse. Why should I worry about this article, I m happy because I m writing it, you are reading it. This is enough for me to be happy.

So when next time you feel depressed or any negative situation or thoughts dominating your positivity then take one doze of artificial happiness every time you encounter it.

Life Myopia

Life myopia; Marketing Myopia in relation to our daily lives

Generally the term I have used is a business term “Marketing myopia” but surprisingly it relates to our daily lives, now the question arises how?

The term means “mistake of paying more attention to the specific products attributes which is offered by the company rather than to the benefits and experience produced by these products”.  Same as the case applies to our lives as when a problem arises in our lives we pay more attention to the apparent problem, we get nervous quickly instead of being positive and looking for the causes to overcome, opportunities in that situation which might arise.

I’ll try to prove my point of view by giving two examples

Firstly at the macro level, the floods in Pakistan are the biggest and the most important problem, no doubt that this is a catastrophe and it has devastating effects on the people as well as the country but if we shall keep on seeing the negative results coming out of this calamity we shall soon loose hope.  The need of this hour is that to stand up and look for the ways to handle this problem, at the Government level there are opportunities for government that it can cope up with unemployment when the rehabilitation will start and it can also help effectees both in their homes and works to restart that on the modern lines.

Secondly at individual level, we are well aware that when a problem comes in our daily lives we forgot all our principals and theories and just start worrying about that our elders specially our moms are very fond of worrying, I would say that worrying is for free so everyone worries at any level, as I m worrying about this article.  But what should be done is we should think positively and should try to extract the positivity out of the problem. When I got a letter from a bank to appear in the recruitment test, my mind started calculations about that test, it would be difficult, how could I prepare for it in a short span of one week, but I didn’t realize that it would simply add to my experience if  I would not select.

So the thing is, one needs to be vigilant, a clear thinking of ten miniutes about the pros and cons of a problem for us common people and about the product for business people can save the losses of months and years.