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Mannerism in Organizations III – Blog Post #472 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #472. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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. Continued from Previous… We have discussed several reasons for undesirable manners in the organizations in the last two blogs. In this last part, we shall summarize and conclude with some suggestions to improve the situation.  Sum Up History of class discrimination, Lack of education, Lack of social development, Acceptance of foul language in social settings are some of the major contributors towards poor mannerism in general. The work life is not entirely separated from personal life, and we are not two different people at work and home. The fact is that as a community, we have lost whatev...

Mannerism in Organizations II – Blog Post #471 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #471. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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. Continued from Previous… We are tracing the reasons for undesirable manners in the organizations. We discussed class-based social system and lack of literacy in the previous blog. We go on to see more factors. Lack of Social Development The access to education, quality of education and the impact of education contribute to social development.  In our case, access to education is limited, restricted and highly variable. Government does not take responsibility for educating all children, even at cost. The schools are insufficient, many schools do not have proper buildings, do not have furnitur...

Mannerism in Organizations – Blog Post #470 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #470. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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. Couple of years ago, a candidate was brought to me by his would-be reporting officer for final interview. The position was an officer level (read ‘entry level’) one. The candidate had few years’ experience in a similar position. He had spent two years in one organization who are a very well-known manufacturer of tents and tarpaulins. Apparently, they have a huge export business also. Incidentally, his would-be reporting officer also had had a stint there. The candidate mentioned that the owners regularly abused employees verbally, in the dirtiest possible local language. The other person also endors...