Management

Work –Life Balance, Step - 4 Prioritize Prioritization is one of the most prominent skills for achieving better results from individual and team efforts by focusing the energy and attention on synergies of actions and these actions require resources. The allocation of resources among competing is based on what is known as opportunity cost in the economics, as these actions and resources can be put to alternate use and this alternate use of economic or human resources is the crux of prioritization.   Life always offers options for choices, which are sometimes competing in nature while complementary at other occasions and also conflicting at times. These choices have to be sequentially and simultaneously because of their nature or resource constraint.  Prioritization is the first requirement for optimization of available resources, which can be put to multiple uses and the same holds good for work – life balance too. The canvas of life is much larger beyond the economic asp...

  Work - Life Balance, Step - 3 Values Values are like lighthouses guiding in the right direction in the midst of uncertainty as these values convert into belief system, which become the thoughts and ultimately culminating into ground actions. Non-alignment of values, beliefs, thoughts and actions create disconnect, inconsistency and unpredictability in the individual behavior patterns leading to random responses originating from such conflicting scensrios. This has been beautifully described by famous Urdu Poet Prof Waseem Barelvi as “Usoolon pe jahaan aanch aaye takarana jaroori hai, jo jinda ho to phir nazar aana zaroori hai” which translates into English as “It is necessary to clash for values and those who are alive need to look alive”. One of the recent examples of value based decision has been taken by Ms Aruna Vijay, a Master Chef India 2023 contestant, who refused to use egg in her culinary preparations because of her vegetarian value system. She wrote, “You never run be...

                                 Work – Life Balance, Step - 2 Principle Every creature of this universe has his own role to play in the overall scheme of things, which has been beautifully described by famous play writer W. Shakespeare as “All the world’s a stage” in his famous play “As You Like It”. Co-incidentally, it sounds like the concept of re-birth an enshrined in Hindu Scriptures based on our karmic cycles, though one can alter or modify his karmic baggage through new karmas. This leads us to Step 2 of work-life balance, which is based on Principle. No doubt, work-life balance is highly personal for every individual, which undergoes gradual and sometimes disruptive transformation with changing times and personal preferences, therefore the common denominator has to be evolved based on acceptable “Principle”. The organizations, being the perpetual entity, are being run by the individuals in var...

  Work Life Balance My article on "Work Life Balance" was published in September 2020 issue of Taarangan, the  In-house Journal of Bank of India.