D.RENGANAYAKI and Dr.C.S.RANGARAJAN
When employees continued tenure of service is ensured, then arises the question relating to ''intrinsic'' and ''extrinsic'' satisfaction in work.As Blauner in his work on ''Alienation and Freedom'' holds, it is security of employment which is seen as a condition precedent to employees'' loyalty and commitment. Seen against the backdrop of insecurity which is wrought into the job,one is appreciative of William Shakespeare''s observations which runs as follows: "You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live". The threat to the existence of sufficient jobs is identified as the most and immediate problem confronting the industrial society. Caught in the vortex of ever increasing technological and population trends, individuals, willing to work, are reduced to the level of not being able to find work. These ''twin threats'' are negatively correlated with work in the sense that both technological and population increase jointly and severally contribute to decrease in employment opportunities. Besides ''product life cycle'', technological obselecence as well as ''planned technological obselecenece'' lead to ''trained incapacity''. In otherwords, technology creates as many jobs as it weeds out. Another difficulty arises from managers'' preoccupations, among others, with the rules, conceived as a means becomes transformed into an end in itself. As instrumental value becomes a terminal value, it not only results in '' displacement of goals'', but also hasten the process of ''displacement'' of employees caught on account of their failure to fall in line with the organisational blue-print. These employees not only become ''rootless'', but are also pushed into ''roleless roles'' in the process of displacement leading to a ''crisis of identity''. Shakespeare views that ''the fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings''.Lord Byron, on the otherhand laments ''must crimes be punished by other crimes, and greater criminals''. William Wordsworth is forthright when he comments ''earth is sick and Heaven is weary of the hollw words which States and Kingdoms utter when they speak of truth and justice''.
Oscar Wilde without mincing words, observes that ''in war, the strong make slave of the weak, and in peace the rich make slave of the poor. We must work to live, and they give such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes and another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them;and we are slaves, though men call us free''.
When employees continued tenure of service is ensured, then arises the question relating to ''intrinsic'' and ''extrinsic'' satisfaction in work.As Blauner in his work on ''Alienation and Freedom'' holds, it is security of employment which is seen as a condition precedent to employees'' loyalty and commitment. Seen against the backdrop of insecurity which is wrought into the job,one is appreciative of William Shakespeare''s observations which runs as follows: "You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live". The threat to the existence of sufficient jobs is identified as the most and immediate problem confronting the industrial society. Caught in the vortex of ever increasing technological and population trends, individuals, willing to work, are reduced to the level of not being able to find work. These ''twin threats'' are negatively correlated with work in the sense that both technological and population increase jointly and severally contribute to decrease in employment opportunities. Besides ''product life cycle'', technological obselecence as well as ''planned technological obselecenece'' lead to ''trained incapacity''. In otherwords, technology creates as many jobs as it weeds out. Another difficulty arises from managers'' preoccupations, among others, with the rules, conceived as a means becomes transformed into an end in itself. As instrumental value becomes a terminal value, it not only results in '' displacement of goals'', but also hasten the process of ''displacement'' of employees caught on account of their failure to fall in line with the organisational blue-print. These employees not only become ''rootless'', but are also pushed into ''roleless roles'' in the process of displacement leading to a ''crisis of identity''. Shakespeare views that ''the fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings''.Lord Byron, on the otherhand laments ''must crimes be punished by other crimes, and greater criminals''. William Wordsworth is forthright when he comments ''earth is sick and Heaven is weary of the hollw words which States and Kingdoms utter when they speak of truth and justice''.
Oscar Wilde without mincing words, observes that ''in war, the strong make slave of the weak, and in peace the rich make slave of the poor. We must work to live, and they give such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes and another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them;and we are slaves, though men call us free''.
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