ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLIANCE…….In India !!
India is a country of a specific paradox. India is rich in human resources. Indians are among the best educated, hard and smart working people. Indian brains are one of the best in the world. It is true. For so many years in the past, present and I promise may be in the future, year after year, thousands of our best brains will go out and work for the foreigners, foreign companies and foreign countries. India is the best brain hunting ground for the Americans and the Europeans. This is one side of the story.
On the other hand, Indians and the Indian companies, stand on the roof and shout “lack of trained human resources is the biggest problem in India”. The shortage of ‘trained’ man power is hurting the company growth. Take any sector in India, human resource shortage is there. All the HR managers in the Indian companies are claiming, they tried hard to attract the best human resource talent, they are doing their best to retain the best people, they are managing their show to the best with the available people. Are they right ?.
Earlier, only the people from IITs, IIMs, and top institute had the opportunity to go abroad and settle their. They usually don’t return back to India. Now the situation is worse, people from second grade cities, towns and even from villages, the brains are moving out of this country. Even if they are not moving out, they make it a point, they will work for the foreign MNCs. They take pride in that. The most worst situation is, even the menial labour force, they will clean the toilet, but they will clean the toilet in Singapore and Dubai and they don’t want to clean the toilet in Indian.

First tell us accept the fact. Indians are bad in managing their Human Resources. It is hard to accept this fact. But this is the truth. Second, India is not a society of merit. While selecting people “right people for the right place” it is not happening in India. We have several filters to get ride of candidates. The filters are so many and irrational. If you are not with particular religion, rejected. Not with particular cast, breed and state – rejected. If you are not in the age group, you will be rejected. If you are physically too tin or too fat – rejected. If you are highly qualified and experienced, you will be rejected. The interviewer does not like the candidate, reject him. The Head of Sales finds a candidate extremely good, the HR people will reject. It is all happen during the selection process. During the interview in India, usually the candidate is grilled for his/ her weakness, what he/she is lacking, what he/she don’t have. The recruiter does not evaluate the candidate’s strength, unique talent and what they can do best. It is not a process of selection in India. It is the process of rejection.
What most of them is looking for is, weather we are comfortable in working with the candidate and weather the candidate will fit in to the team. The candidates, qualification, experience, love the job and competence comes second. No professionals and competent candidate can accept this as a criteria to work in an organization. The family controlled companies will recruit candidates loyal to them. A lousy CEO will build a lousy team. Brahmins will support and recruit Brahmins. Keraltes will support and recruit keraltes, Hindi speaking boss will prefer Hindi guys. Average performing organization will prefer average performing candidates. They don’t recruit super performance guys and destabilize the harmony of the work culture. The super performance guys will not survive in the organization. Some boss want to hear only “yes”. This ‘yes’ boss will have team only with candidates who can say “yes”. If you use your brain and think of you own, you have no place in the organization. In India, some company will clearly tell, “Even if you don’t perform we will keep you, but if you don’t fit into the organization. You are out”. In India, faithful to the boss is more important than faithful to the customer and the company. If you want to survive in an Indian organization ‘be faithful to your boss’.
This is Indian recruitment style. Indians have strong focus on “organizational compliance”. Those who failed to fit into the team, out of job. We find in India, so many highly qualified people are not employed. Below qualified and average people are on roll. This is pathetic.