‘91% Indians not emotionally invested in workplace’-Business Line 11th October 2013
NEW DELHI, OCT. 10:
A whopping 91 per cent of Indian employees are not psychologically committed to their organisations or are as productive as they can be, strategic consultant Gallup said in its latest annual report on ‘State of Global Workplace’.
This means, 91 per cent Indian employees are either ‘not engaged’ or ‘actively disengaged’ at their workplace. Engagement means emotionally invested in and focused on creating value for their organisations. “Engaged employees are relatively rare in one of the world’s most populous emerging markets, India,” the report said.
The global average for engaged worker is 13 per cent, while for India it is 9 per cent. The report gives an update of the previous results using data in 2011 and 2012 from nearly 230,000 full-time and part-time employees in 142 countries.
There is considerable variation in engagement levels in India by education level and job type. Among professional, managerial, sales, service, and administrative job types, engagement rates were above 10 per cent, while they fell below that threshold among jobs that involve physical work, such as installation/repair, construction/mining, and manufacturing/production.
The last two have extremely high proportions of ‘actively disengaged’ employees in India: 44 per cent in construction and mining, 32 per cent in manufacturing and production. The recent labour unrest in India is a reflection of widespread frustration in these job sectors.
The report describes ‘actively disengaged’ as negative and potentially hostile to their organisations. It says for every one engaged worker, there are two actively disengaged workers. For India, the proportion of ‘actively disengaged’ is higher than the global average of 24 per cent.
“Perhaps, the most pressing issue for leaders in India is the high proportion of ‘disruptors’ — the 31 per cent of employees who are actively disengaged. These employees are not just unhappy, but busy acting out their unhappiness and undermining their engaged co-workers’ accomplishments,” a regional highlight section on India in the report, written by senior consultant Paresh Rajgarhia and consultant Priyanka Kohli said.
Lower engagement not just affects productivity, but also the potential for innovation in products and services.
The report highlighted three core values to improve employee engagement — focus on the ‘people’ aspects of the performance management system, hire and develop good mid-level managers and give employees the opportunity to perform at their best.
According to Rajgarhia and Kohli, systems that develop the right people according to their talents are essential for creating a high-performance culture and cited the example of Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces.
Proportion of women in workforce declines
The number of women staff is higher in private sector firms.
CHENNAI, OCT. 10:
Fewer women are participating in the Indian workforce today compared to two decades ago, according to recent data from the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
The proportion of women in the organised workforce as a percentage of the total female population declined between 2001 and 2011 after rising in the previous two decades.
The work participation rate for women was 25.6 per cent in 2001. This fell to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12, as per the 68th Round of the National Sample Survey. The worker participation rate for women had risen from 19.7 per cent in 1981 to 22.3 per cent in 1991.
URBAN VERSUS RURAL
But the decline in the participation rate from one-fourth of the female population to just a fifth in the 10 years to 2011 shows that working women continue to be the exception rather than the norm in India.
The data however does show that a growing number of women in the urban areas are confident of taking up jobs, with the participation rate rising from 11.9 per cent in 2001 to 14.7 per cent in 2011. But the participation rate in rural areas, which was as high as 30.8 per cent in 2001, fell to 24.8 per cent in 2011.
The survey found that women are mainly engaged as cultivators and agricultural labourers in rural areas. In urban areas, on the other hand, fourth-fifth of the working women are involved in unorganised sectors such as household industries, petty trade and services, building and construction. Women make up just a fifth of the organised sector workforce. The latest data shows that of the total organised sector employment in the country in 2010, 58.6 lakh women women accounted for 20.4 per cent of the total workforce.
PRIVATE SECTOR
The proportion of women is higher in private sector companies — at 24.5 per cent of the total workforce — than the public sector (17.9 per cent).
Outside the corporate sphere, the proportion of women with central government jobs has risen sharply since 1991. Women accounted for 7.6 per cent of central government jobs in 1991, which declined slightly to 7.5 per cent in 2001. By 2009, this had jumped to 10 per cent of the total central government workforce.
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