Saturday, October 10, 2009

Is employee's actions outside the workplace the concern of the organization?


Everybody has to be responsible for his own behavior. However, the way one is punished for his mistakes depends on what his fault is and how serious it is.
Working life and normal life are two important aspects of one’s life. To some extent, these two factors are separate to each other. If one is an employee of a company, everything he does in the working hours is judged and graded by the company or by his boss to be specific, regardless of his action occurs outside or inside the workplace as the company has to take responsibility for its employees’ mistakes. However, after working time, the employee is not an employee any more, but only be himself, so that he, not the company, will be liable for all of his acts.
Moreover, if a person can fulfill well his duties at work and do not let his personal issues affect the quality of work, there’s no reason for the company to intervene deeply to his own life. In the company’s point of view they also don’t want to lose a good staff due to something that is not related to its business.
Furthermore, it will be nightmare for people if their company can fire them for what they do after work. It will become a 24-hour working time, not 8-hour any more, as a result, it will put more pressure on staff, and reduce their productivity.
However, on the other hand, every employee is a representative of a company, so that the bad behavior in public places to others may ruin the firm’s prestige. In this case, he should be penalized for what he has caused.
In conclusion, it should be a clear distinction between a person’s working and normal life. A company has the right to discharge its own employees, but only for their mistakes in work or for something they make after work that damages the company’s reputation, income…not for every of their behavior outside the workplace.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Rely on yourself or ask for help?


There’s a lot of factors that effect people’s personal and professional life, some factors can be controlled but others may not be able to control by the people themselves so that one should rely on oneself, not on others, but in some situations they have to ask for help from other people
Personal life of a person includes many things like their health, their family, their friends, and making choices about traveling, buying car, houses…People can take care of their health by keeping away from smoking, drinking, by exercising…but cannot avoid unexpected accidents like car accident, murder nor affected by hereditary diseases like cancer…
The situation is similar in the relationship between one and their friends, their family which play a very important role in one’s life. You’ll be a very happy person if your friends, your family always stand by your side and support you. However, it is not a trouble-free relation as no one can guarantee that your beloved ones will never betray on you. You can choose your friends but not your family, and even with a friend you choose, there’s nothing guarantee that the connection will last forever. It’s not just from your side but also need the other side’s sincerity to form a strong relationship.
Professional life is other side of one’s life. In your professional life, you can choose the job, the career you like but not the teachers. Your grade at school not just reflects only your effort, but sometimes it also counts on the teacher’s point of view which may be very different from yours. It’s the same in your working life. You can choose your desire job and company, but your success does not just rely on how hard you work but partly depends on your boss.
In general, it is very good to be independent and just rely on yourself; however, you may have to ask for other people’s support sometimes. Your success comes largely from yourself as well as your own effort and partly from external’s factors like people, unexpected events which are not under your control.