Productivity award is a way to motivate employees and I noticed many aiming to get awards now and then. People used to apply and try to get as many Productivity awards as possible as they find their way into the HR records. I looked stupid as I never applied and the awards are given to those only who project themselves/ apply for the award.
As a Manager, I realized, even if you are not interested, you need to project your colleagues as innovative ones. Hence, even if only one person does the good work, we add two or three names to that to make it appear as a team work!
As a challenge I started filing for Productivity awards and covered many of my colleagues so that they can get benefited too! I received around 14 and then stopped applying.
I did not enjoy doing just for the sake of doing ....and I stopped applying for awards ! There shall be a some other way for the Management to identify the hard workers and recognize their efforts, instead of asking them to project themselves.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Purchase(d) officer
As a Material Planning person, our work was to identify the material requirement, generate the Purchase Indent, co-ordinate with Material Management department, ensure that the good material reaches the Holding stores and then issue the material to the production.
I used to raise a purchase indents for Current Transformers and Voltage transformers and send to the concerned Purchase Officer. This Purchase Officer sends the Purchase Enquiry to the known suppliers and their offers are forwarded to me for getting them technically cleared. And we used to request for the dimensional drawings wherever the offer looks technically suitable and price wise reasonable. Then the Purchase Officer would get the required drawings from the suppliers.
Once, when I walked into the Materials Management department, my friend, this purchase officer, called me and gave me the file for my clearance. I cleared and asked for the drawings. To my surprise, he took out a set of drawings from his storage rack, got them photo copied and filed in the Enquiry file and asked me to comment on the file. As that drawing was relevant, I cleared the same.
When I enquired this strange enthusiasm to clear the enquiry and release the PO on a supplier, I was told that our friend’s way of PO release! He has a new ‘payment term’ –innovative--- ‘Purchase Order release on Payment’ ; you pay the margin against the Purchase Order value to this ‘Purchased Officer’ and take the Purchase Order !
Actually we can never prove these! If they are not true, consider them fiction and don’t file a case on me!
I used to raise a purchase indents for Current Transformers and Voltage transformers and send to the concerned Purchase Officer. This Purchase Officer sends the Purchase Enquiry to the known suppliers and their offers are forwarded to me for getting them technically cleared. And we used to request for the dimensional drawings wherever the offer looks technically suitable and price wise reasonable. Then the Purchase Officer would get the required drawings from the suppliers.
Once, when I walked into the Materials Management department, my friend, this purchase officer, called me and gave me the file for my clearance. I cleared and asked for the drawings. To my surprise, he took out a set of drawings from his storage rack, got them photo copied and filed in the Enquiry file and asked me to comment on the file. As that drawing was relevant, I cleared the same.
When I enquired this strange enthusiasm to clear the enquiry and release the PO on a supplier, I was told that our friend’s way of PO release! He has a new ‘payment term’ –innovative--- ‘Purchase Order release on Payment’ ; you pay the margin against the Purchase Order value to this ‘Purchased Officer’ and take the Purchase Order !
Actually we can never prove these! If they are not true, consider them fiction and don’t file a case on me!
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