Thursday, March 26, 2009

Government Should Work in a Professional Way as a Corporate; Corporate India

A need of the hour is to manage our country in a professional way as a corporate with aims to provide a best life style to every Indian and to improve India in each sphere. For consistency in the professional management, let us consider central government as head office, states are branch offices and municipal councils and Gram Panchayats are sub-branch offices.

To achieve the aims efficiently, this article presents a model with various processes . The model presents: (1) a process in preparing the election agenda which considers viewpoints of the Indian people; (2) a format for minimum information required in the agenda to show commitment towards implementation of the agenda and to show responsibilities; (3) a mechanism for tracking progress; and (4) an appraisal system for the employees of the corporate. The model is useful for the head office, branch offices and sub-branch offices.

Each political party needs to find out peoples’ demands using services of an independent professional research organisation. These demands together with the party’s vision become the election agenda. Each agenda item considered as a goal. Each goal is announced with the current status and the target to be achieved during the next five years of governance. The current status is determined with the help of a third-party professional research organisation. The agenda also contains a method to achieve the target with a plan, schedule and resources. The plan consists of work breakdown structure with activities, tasks, sub-tasks and milestones including feedbacks from the people of India. The schedule shows the timeline with starting and ending dates. The resources include finances to human resources. In the human resources, names for the minister position are incorporated with a group of MPs and party workers as a core team with their profiles. At least three potential candidates for the minister’s job should be included with a hope that one of them will be elected. Other candidates for the minister’s job, other than the elected minister, from the elected and other parties will work as shadow ministers to help the minister in the implementation of the agenda. The human resources also include a team consisting of workers of other political parties, representatives of NGOs, corporate and people for progress tracking and monitoring of the work on the agenda item with their profiles. The profile includes member’s personal information, assets and financial information, educational qualifications and experience. The profile does not request criminal records as criminals are not allowed to work for corporate India. The members of the teams must adhere to minimum qualifications and experience in the field of agenda item. Each party member has to draw his/her agenda in addition to the party’s agenda. Thus, each political party, potential minister, shadow minister and each party worker depict their own responsibilities and work plan to convey how they will contribute in the benefit of corporate India. As a volunteer or an employee of the corporate each of them will contribute whether elected or not.

In this way, the chosen progress path for future India is available in the set of agenda comprises agendas of political parties, candidates for ministers’ job, MPs and party workers. This set should be published widely well in advance so that the citizens of India will have enough time to take the voting decision.

After the election results, all political parties should have consent for the common goals using peoples’ demands. The core team for each goal will periodically announce the status of the work and improve the work by inviting and incorporating valuable feedbacks from the citizens. The progress tracking and monitoring team for each goal will publish evaluation of the work every year.

In addition to the continuous evaluations of the goals, corporate India implements an appraisal system for all the employees who are getting remuneration, allowances, pension or any kind of tangible and intangible benefits from the corporate. This yearly appraisal should be carried out by an independent committee consisting renowned personnel of each sphere. The committee may consist of Indians, PIOs, NRIs and foreign nationals who have no direct or indirect relation with any political party. Each employee provides his/her contributions to the committee. The committee then evaluates the claim of contributions made by the employee using the evaluation reports of progress tracking and monitoring teams and using their independent evaluation criteria. The committee informs outcome of the appraisal directly to the employee in detail and to the people in brief. The outcome may contain appreciation of good performances/contributions, warning/probation for improvement in the next year and dismissal of the employee. Even allowances, pension and other benefits of the employees are also depending on the appraisal based recommendations.

Corporate India can adopt a quality standard for working processes and get certified by an independent quality certification organisation.

A model is presented in this article which could lead corporate India offices to practice a professional working style but a framework is required for effective communication procedures between the offices.

1 comment:

  1. wel come and best wishes. would look forward for meaningful stuff regularly.
    urvish

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