[Assam] Editing standards

[Chan Mahanta]

H:

>  Hardwork is something I find most Assamese people shun and most 
>assamese >people, even at high and responsible places give priority 
>to sleep, food, >idleness over their work responsibilities.


*** Do you, as a management guru, have any thoughts on WHY it is so, 
and how it might be remedied ?

Is it genetic, and thus unchangeable?

Or could it be a associated with efforts vs. rewards, incentives to 
perform, and expectations or the absence thereof ?

>give priority to sleep, food, idleness over their work responsibilities.

*** Personally, I have always liked to sleep. It is the high point of 
my day. If I can hit the sack when my body wants to, that is bliss. 
It is freedom. I wouldn't think much of anyone who would grudge me my 
sleep.

Food, is not just a necessity of life. For many it is a luxury, 
reward for hard-work. Is it a sin?

Idleness is a result of NOT having to work for a living. Only those 
who are paid to do nothing, or only those who are blessed with a 
hefty inheritance could afford NOT to work. How many Assamse are in 
that situation?

Could it therefore be that, hard work carries no incentive? That it 
does not matter if you work harder, because there will be no extra 
reward for it? That one would get paid , regardless of performance? 
And that the concept of expectations on the employees' performance is 
non-existent?

*** These are the curiosities of an idle, management-challenged, 
kharkhowa  mind. Would be much obliged if you would share your 
professional thoughts on causes and remedies.

Best.

Yours Mahanataly

cm :-)













At 7:01 AM +0530 10/24/06, shantikam hazarika wrote:
>Mahanata:
>
>These are typical Assamese misfortunes. DN Bezbaruah built up the 
>Sentinel over 22 years and gave it a somewhat professional elan, 
>unthinkable in the typical assamese mindset. And the edifice he 
>built up collapsed within a year of his departure because though he 
>did build up quite a few young journalists, I think he failed to 
>educate his owner adequately.
>
>Editing a news paper is not an easy job, apart from knowledge, you 
>also require hard and flexible work schedule. Hardwork is something 
>I find most Assamese people shun and most assamese people, even at 
>high and responsible places give priority to sleep, food, idleness 
>over their work responsibilities.
>
>Do we really have choice except to grin and bear it?
>
>Shantikam.
>
>
>From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
>To: "shantikam hazarika" <shntikamhaz at hotmail.com>, assam at assamnet.org
>Subject: Editing AT and Sentinel
>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:56:14 -0500
>>Hello H:
>>
>>
>>>I think the letter to the editor published last friday was in very
>>>poor taste. If there was a real editor in the Assam tribune, I am
>>>sure it would not have gone through, but unfortunately both the
>>>local English dailies are now edited by the owners themselves and
>>>there standards have fallen like anything.
>>
>>
>>**** I have been so appalled by the editorial standards of these two
>>papers in recent days/weeks/months, that I was wondering what
>>happened; how there isn't anyone left in Assam to write an editorial
>>piece in these papers that would even qualify as an essay in a
>>decent high-school with an average English language teaching
>>ability.
>>
>>I guess the above explains that--to an extent!
>>
>>
>>Not that I care, but I missed the Nehru letter.
>>
>>m
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>
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