The health of an organisation is evident from the kind of work the employees are loaded on with..................

Are you a part of a company, or an academic organization? Wherever you work, the health of the organization is most evident from the work-loads being poured on you by your superior.

The fundamental question is ARE YOU GIVEN A JOB THAT IS UPTO YOUR CAPABILITIES OF MUCH BELOW YOUR CAPABILITIES ???

 To understand this statement, I will cite some simple examples:

1. Example 1: You work in a company having Cell Therapy products, and you happen to be a biomedical engineer with experience with upscaling cell therapy products. Now, you are being loaded with huge volumes of work in noting down the temperature of c-GMP and other basic parameters. Or else, you are asked to make tons of documents which leads you nowhere or connects you to your career goal. Definitely, your organization is stinking and the authority has no idea what they should do for making cell therapy products.
2. Example 2: You work in an academic research institute having earned your Ph.D., post-doctoral from top-notch International laboratories. Now, your current boss is asking you to write documents such as how to write a log-book, how to mop the floor of a cell culture laboratory. Definitely, the work which is being loaded onto you does not connect you to your higher career or learning goals. Hence, the organization you are working for is stinking.

Finally, it is the leadership that matters. Definitely, it is important to keep the premises of the workplace clean and in an orderly fashion, but, at what cost? If your current organization does not encourage you to invest your time in learning and then delivering based on your knowledge, then, the organization is running just to satisfy the ego of the so-called leaders.

If I were a leader, my first commitment will be to invest in the knowledge building of my employees so that they can deliver more. Say for example, if I am committed to producing excellent stem cell culture experts, it goes unsaid that they will keep the premises of the stem cell culture laboratories clean. For cleanliness, I do not have to enforce this as a separate task.

As the bottom line, we, as leaders should be committed to the genuine knowledge of our teammates and motivate them to deliver based on their knowledge.