Mar 22, 2012 11:28 AM
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(Updated Jul 03, 2013 03:15 PM)
World Bank, a global financial institution which provides funding and technical assistance for developing countries, has announced that it black-listed Wipro’s IT services unit. For four years, Wipro IT Services is barred from doing any direct business with World Bank.
The reason?
World Bank alleges that Wipro has been providing improper benefits to World Bank senior staff and their families. These benefits were offered in the form of company stock, amounting to USD72, 000.
Of course, Wipro challenges the World Bank claims, stating that the participants in the scheme to sell these stocks had already signed statements that they weren't in violation of ethics or conflict of interest policies.
Furthermore, Wipro seems to shrug the blacklisting, stating that the business of World Bank is only minimal and would not affect their business operations.
Yeah right. I think that is just wishful thinking aloud.
One Vishal Dhinde from Wirpo BPO Powai went to town about the shoddy management at Powai offices of Wipro.. He even filed FIR at local police station. It is incredible how his voice got hushed up and even the pertinent issues he raised were never followed-up my media. It seems some extraneous considerations motivated the print media to look the other way, Otherwise there is no plausible explanation why the media never followed up such stories with more?
You may consider these strategise and more if you can think of better ones yourself.
Keep a detailed record of your day to day activities.
Ideally maintain a excel sheet linking the event, time, date... to the actual description of the event in MS-Word.
Always retain names, designation & pictures of key people who are a cause for concern even when they are operate behind the scene and seldom get their hands dirty.
Use words like malpractice, cooking of books, nepotism, skulduggery, red tapism, witch hunting, corporate social responsibility, illegal trade/hr practises, sexual harassment, bluster, syndicate, psychological warfare, mediocrity, torture and more when you try to nail the offender and when you classify/index the contents of your write-up.
Websites like consumercomplaints.com, mouthshut.com, complaintboard.com and others will come handy. Always post pictures, videos of the offender/culprit. You are advised to use blogspot or other free blogging websites to post the pictures of the culprit and add links to your blogs in your write-up that you post here or else-where.
Try to corner the leader/leaders socially, it works. If there is no truth, it will not affect the concerned person. However, if there is truth, such a person cannot escape being noticed & ostracised socially and finally being cornered professionally as excess/inconvenient baggage.
Managers have a tough skin. However, even the toughest matter is prone to wear and tear. Persistence & iteration will work eventually. Only those leaders who actually are on sound ethical and moral ground will be able to resist such a honest and straightforward onslaught. There is no need to get demoralised as long as you are 100% on the right side of ethics & morality.
A company is a separate legal entity and treated as a separate person in the court of law. However, it is the people who run the company who are responsible for the conduct of it's day to activities and the road that the company takes in discharging its duties as a corporate citizen or meeting it's corporate social responsibility obligations.
There is a fundamental flaw in the approach that the law takes in catching up and punishing the wrong doers. Actually law and right to private property is skewed in favor of the wrong doers.
Post the review that I have posted here for all companies that matter & certainly your company/ organization even if it has not been reviewed here so far.
Top level people are answerable to shareholders and media. However the questions they have to deal with are generally is more formal, focussed around financials of their company or marketting plans.
A bad publicity gives the top management jitters. However the project managers, supervisors, support, hr and others responsible for the lowest level workers are immune to all-round answerability.
As profitability is most pertinent middle level managers, supervisors and other are given lot of leeway to keep the business profitable and also hush-up plenty of concerns or negatives.
It is only natural that under such a circumstance they will try to strengthen the foundation of their existence by becoming a bully or indulging in dirty political games and or, mediocrity.
I recommend that everyone responsible to milk others should have their profile over Wikipedia or a forum like that and have to accept the life of a public figure.
Styles, mannerism, knowledge, strengths, weakness, idiosyncrasies, business model, project details and deepest possible secrets must be unearthed by the employees, as that is the best insurance policy to cover one's own posterior & bring about a social change.
Do not wait for things to get intolerably worse. Rather speak-up proactively & before things go wrong.
Every company deservers to prove everyday that it has hard earned/ deserves all that it has earned.
The ownership of the organisation is rarely a problem if all the supervisors and middle managers are made answerable and tried day-in & day-out. If they cannot take the heat they need to get out of the kitchen, period.
For all those paranoid about revealing own identity consider downloading Tor. Tor is 100 % safe. You may use a anonymous id like the one I have used here.
