WAYS TO MOTIVATE UNORGANISED SECTOR

Dear Members
I invite you all to brainstorm the ways of motivating the employees of unorganised sector!
Regards
Nagaraj D B
Manager -HR

Unorganised sector??Servants at home??Agri labourers?Coolies??
What can we do to motivate??
You mean these categories???
Siva

Dear Mr. Nagaraj,

This is a wonderful question that might have evolved through deep realization about the issue entailing a series of experience.

In unorganized sector, the workers are always a challenge as they are less educated or educated to a degree so that they posess a certificate.They are more strongly attached with their social customs, religious (Dogmatic even) beliefs and family responsibilities. They work not for satisfaction or excellence. They work just for money and money alone so that they could purchase another piece of land back home(Village) or get their daughter/ sister married. They are unable to see a career beyond this.If there is a second thing that they work for, it is ego massage or Self respect or friendship.Hope you remember the late 70s and early 80s movies of Amitabh Bacchan or mid 80s movies of Mithun Chakravarty. The characters these actors would play (normally a poor chap fighting against system and the rich for freindship or pride or Mother or revenge) aptly define the unorganized sector workers.

In unorganized sector workers have following priorities:

1. Getting right wages/ salaries in time

2. Maintaining the same group of workers( who, by now have become freinds) at a given site of work.

3. Not getting insulted/abused

4. Time to time getting some financial 'extras' reasonably( as Bonus, overtime charges) or without any reason (like 'sahab khush ho gaye')

5. Personal treatment from supervisors. They appreciate if supervisor acts freindly at times.

6.Some gifts- like a shirt on Diwali, a pack of soaps in holi etc.

7.A boss who is strict at work but 'understands' their feelings and is 'good at heart' otherwise.

If you feel helped, in any way with this preface, let me know. We will be discussing it further as to what measures can create a win win.

Awaiting an early response

Regards

Satyabrata Tripathy

:D Wonderful Mr. Tripathy! You have given a deep thought. You mentioned the exact points i had in mind. let us continue this brainstorming to have more ideas

Nagaraj

Dear Mr. Nagaraj,
I would be happy to continue with this brainstorming exercise. I would also like to know what exactly you want this for. This will help me give you pin pointed suggestions.
Kindly help me with this
Satyabrata Tripathy

Dear Mr. Tripathy
I want to write an article about the topic hence trying to collect points
With regards

Dear Nagaraj,
Your question is very vague. Which unorganised sector you want to motivate. Different people need different types of motivation. If you can spicfy your need, we can answer or we can guide you how to do it.
Regards,
Prasanna Kumar
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Dear Mr Nagraj., Siva, Satyabratha,
The points discussed here are very good.
I my organisation around 50 workers are working as casual labour and need this type of encouragement. We need not go outside for unorganised sector, instead we can have such type of workers in our own ogranisation.
Let us contine this type of brain storming with some more ideas.
M Srinivas
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Dear all,

The topic seems to have generated good number of responses.It seems hot.

Lets have some tips on handling the workers in the unorganized sector:

1. Stop giving them training on 'how to work better', 'behaviour' and other sophisticated areas of subject matter. Train them on something they think they can directly sell- Welding, painting, Calculations and so on.

2. They do not like implementation of new system (for instance in lines with TQM/ ISO). So be ready with additional manpower as you cannot stop implementing a new policy just because your workers are against it. So in case of a rebellion... additional trained resourses.

3. Care for their family and not for their Career. They do not understand Career. They understand Tangible benefits. So medical facility (Directly) for family members (and not allowance as they cant understand CTC, Gross, take home etc.)

4. Give away some gifts from occassion to occassion. They should preferably FMCG, Garments etc.

5. Bring about fooding facility in house. Again no allowance.

6. They do not accept bosses. So be an elder brother who has the 'same language and culture'

7.Do give donations for any celebrations they want to do- Pongal, Holi milan, Vishwakarma Puja etc.

8. Keep them busy with work. If they remain free, they will get into gossip, thereby into conclusions and rumours, resulting into Demotivation.

If you find it useful, do reply

Satyabrata Tripathy

Dear all,

The topic seems to have generated good number of responses.It seems hot.

Lets have some tips on handling the workers in the unorganized sector:

1. Stop giving them training on 'how to work better', 'behaviour' and other sophisticated areas of subject matter. Train them on something they think they can directly sell- Welding, painting, Calculations and so on.

2. They do not like implementation of new system (for instance in lines with TQM/ ISO). So be ready with additional manpower as you cannot stop implementing a new policy just because your workers are against it. So in case of a rebellion... additional trained resourses.

3. Care for their family and not for their Career. They do not understand Career. They understand Tangible benefits. So medical facility (Directly) for family members (and not allowance as they cant understand CTC, Gross, take home etc.)

4. Give away some gifts from occassion to occassion. They should preferably be FMCG, Garments etc.

5. Bring about fooding facility in house. Again, no allowance.

6. They do not accept bosses. So be an elder brother who has the 'same language and culture'

7.Do give donations for any celebrations they want to do- Pongal, Holi milan, Vishwakarma Puja etc.

8. Keep them busy with work. If they remain free, they will get into gossip, thereby into conclusions and rumours, resulting into Demotivation.

If you find it useful, do reply

Satyabrata Tripathy