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Red Tape in Private Corporates – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #750 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #750 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Monstera Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Photo Credit: Vlada Karpovich Red tape, the symbol of bureaucracy comes in several forms in the corporates. I talked about ‘culture’ in the last post. Here, we see some more forms. Silos – are a common item in private corporates also. Silo forms when the Head of a Function decides that he, his function, and his team shall allow restricted access to other functions. This may not be required by the organization, or the situation therein, but it evolves from an attitude of asserting personal authority. What happen...

Employee Engagement – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #690 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #690 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: Ron Lach Sum Up and Recommendations for Improving Employee Engagement In the preceding posts, I have presented evidence from multiple sources which not just shows the importance, but also quantifies the gains and losses. It is established beyond any doubt that having an engaged workforce is a winning proposition. The argument against this evidence may be that even those organizations who have poor record on engagement also keep growing. It is a fair argument to the extent of outcome, however, what is not mentioned is the wastage of...

Employee Engagement – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #686 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #686 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Fauxels Photo Credit: Ketut Subiyanto WORLDWIDE SITUATION Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of General Electric who turned GE around says, “There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow…. It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it”. Employee engagement is the term routinely heard in consistently high...