Kenya: How Companies Motivate Staff Through Relaxed Work Schedules
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Kenya: How Companies Motivate Staff Through Relaxed Work Schedules
AllAfrica.com – Dec 29, 2007
"Since this goes to touch the heart of our employees it has a direct impact on the engagement of our staff and therefore their productivity" he explains. Nursing mothersHe says all nursing mothers are allowed to report a little late or leave early if they work at the customer service department which demands their presence. therwise they are allowed to work from home says Mr Mbindu adding that their number keeps fluctuating. "This is a new development globally and in my view the Government and local companies need to explore the possibility of the right framework to ensure most firms adopt work-family policies" he says. Mr Mbindu says that at times an employee has needs that cannot be addressed by any other person and that keeping him or her at the work place will not result in greater productivity. In such a circumstance the employee should be allowed to choose the best way to achieve the best for both parties. "We will continue to see more organisations embracing this sort of arrangement as future employees will be demanding them and at the same time employee engagement will be a factor of those things that are dear to the heart and soul of our people" Mr Mbindu says… Indeed when you ask him what he does on a particular day he starts off with family chores before tackling job assignments. "I am a full-time husband and a father of our children apart from other social activities aimed at contributing to the betterment of our society; this is the most important part of my life" he says. Dr Mwangi is a member of the board of advisers at Strathmore Business School’s Centre for Research on Work and Family which is aimed at establishing how wastage of hours affects time spent with the family and by extension an employee’s performance. But how and when does he fend for his family in this tight schedule? Dr Mwangi who is also currently a consultant for a donor group – CGIAR – says he advises any company he works for to embrace more family-responsible policies that meet staff needs and satisfy their desires. He stresses that a company should have proper knowledge of the basic needs of its staff so that it may address them in order to retain and motivate them for the benefit of its ultimate business goals. Working from homeWhile 8 per cent of Kenyan firms allow their employees to work from home 18 per cent of their Nigerian and 51 per cent of Spanish ones do so. In an interview at the launch Prof Chantal Epie of the Lagos business school said the whole concept of enterprise and employee needs to be reconsidered.
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NorthJersey.com – Dec 29, 2007
The Upper Saddle River electrician feels the effects of the worsening housing slump every day. In the past two years he said his workload has dropped by 60 percent forcing him to lay off his three employees at Home Electrical Systems and cut rates by 20 percent. “I’ve been in business 25 years and this is the worst I’ve seen” said Stahmann a 55-year-old who no longer does much commercial or new-home installation work. “I basically take any repair job that comes down the street. “Friday’s report gave a bleaker picture of home sales than analysts had been expecting heightening fears that the country might be thrust into a recession. New-home sales tumbled 9 percent in November from ctober to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 647000 the Commerce Department reported. That was the worst sales pace since April 1995.
Shame of Imported Labor in Kurdish North of Iraq
New York Times – Dec 29, 2007
But nearly all foreign workers interviewed over a two-week period here said they had been deceived by unscrupulous agents who arrange the journeys. Unable to communicate some arrive not knowing what country they are in. nce here their passports are seized by their employment agencies and they are unable to go home. Some are satisfied with their decision to come here but agents’ fees are high often as much as two years’ wages. To come up with the money many borrow at high interest rates and find that their wages are equal only to the interest. In essence they say they end up working for free. While war rages to the south mile after mile of new buildings are rising here and wages for Kurds have risen sevenfold since 2003… As in some wealthy Persian Gulf states the traditional Kurdish lifestyle is adopting some European ways: the rich and powerful want live-in maids nightclubs need non-Muslim women to serve alcohol and men want intimate relationships before marriage — all roles largely forbidden for Kurdish women. Importing such workers relies on a far-reaching network of recruiters in poor countries and for most of the 150 Bangladeshis cleaning the streets here the journey to Kurdistan began at 5 Bonany Road in Dhaka Bangladesh the headquarters of the Travel Mix agency. “They said at the agency that I would make $300 a month and work as a waiter in a restaurant” said Tufazil Hussan. He said that he took out a $3000 loan with monthly interest of $150 to pay the agency but that upon his arrival his passport was taken and he was put to work sweeping the streets seven days a week for $155 a month. Hussan 30 thinks he will soon get a better-paying job; other Bangladeshis say he will probably sweep the streets until the end of his three-year contract then go home with little or nothing. His supervisor Abdul Khadar is not much better off.
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