Dear Mr
Subramanyam
{ Chairman , L&T } ;
I was thrilled to read the highlights of your FIRST letter to L&T
Employees, after taking over as the Chairman of L&T
I hope that this first letter will be followed by many more over the next
months and years
During my tenure as GM ( Powai ) , 1979-1987 , I too wrote letters to Powai
Employees ( 174 in all ) , sharing with them, the GOOD news and the BAD news !
The then Chairman , Shri N M Desai , had following to write as an introduction
to a small ( 20 letter ) compilation of those letters , published by BCCI ,
titled , " The Sun Rises in the West " :
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INTRODUCTION
:
Even at the
best of times, communicating effectively is a difficult task. Whereas most
managements are willing to spend huge sums of money for public relations and
advertising – which is communicating with the external world – they are quite
reluctant to spend time or energy – talking to their own employees.
Whatever
little “ talking with “ that takes place, is done during times of trouble such
as a strike or a lock-out or a go slow.
I am
therefore happy that the Chamber decided to bring out this monograph ,
consisting of a few selected employer – employee communications, regularly
being sent out by Mr H C Parekh in the past 7 years, to 7,000 employees of the
company that he works for.
I do hope
this will encourage some managers to initiate an on-going dialogue with the
employees of their companies .
N M Desai
President ,
Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Feb 10 ,
1987
A WORD
ABOUT THIS BOOK :
“ This
publication is very unusual in the sense that , for the first time , a
compilation of messages from a General Manager to his staff – supervisory as
well as Unionized workforce – has been made , and this will perhaps be
considered unconventional for a Chamber
However ,
in the pages that follow, are contained excerpts from circulars and other such
material , which highlight a manager’s
attempts to try to establish a continuous wave-length with those working in his
organization.
It was felt
that this effort deserves to be brought to the notice of Members and others who
have been greatly concerned with the imperative need to evolve a healthy human
relationship in a mechanical environment.
The ideas
and observations contained in this articles are Mr Parekh’s and in bringing out
this book, the Chamber has merely tried to act as a vehicle of information
dissemination, notwithstanding the fact that these messages were initially
intended for the workforce in a single Member company
Mr. Parekh, You pioneered the process of regular communication with employees, at a time when most Managements were reluctant to do so. That is your major contribution in Communicating with staff, in those days.
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