John Kennedy, former U.S. President immortalized the phrase "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." There is a profound ideology of patriotic commitment and responsibility as a citizen in that sentence. It happens that this philosophy of individual commitment is also perfectly applicable to the case of a company. It is what we will discuss in this post.
Kennedy's reflection comes about disengagement so that one observes in a company's employees, without thinking or values \u200b\u200bthat this company have to support her family, therefore, everything that harms or benefits the company also affects them. Then turns into a matter of business ethics. I heard about the case
Housekeeper in a hotel, which was hired by the owners, by old ties of friendship. It happens that friendship is confused with the responsibility, and this lady falls into a level of negligence, failure to comply with the function of informing the rooms ready for sale, resulting in valuable and unrecoverable losses on sales of rooms, which does not care because he is friends with the owners. Such conduct is astonishing on employees, because they see that lady show the two faces of application to work when they are the owners, and the rest of the time wasted in gossip. Employee is the prototype I characterize and conceptualized as an "employee walking" in previous post.
In this situation shows that the recruitment of staff should emerge from the evaluation of the most competent for office, not bonding. Because you lose the concept that the responsibility to come to the company depends on everyone. If you are a friend of the owner, you do not see well, even when it should be the opposite. Y unfortunately this situation is very common in medium and small businesses, as well as in public sector enterprises.
In small details can appreciate the points made in this post. If a clerk goes through a site any of the company and see a waste on the ground, do not feel obliged to "do something" to maintain the image of the company. The sad thing is that perhaps is one which is dedicated to criticize that to happen, showing disloyalty to colleagues who work in maintenance and cleaning of areas. The consequence is that customers observe organizational neglect and disengagement that company, which they know they can arise from disorganization or lack of motivation, and both are bad elements in corporate advertising.
During the period that power rationing was in force in Venezuela, I learned about a company with such a disengagement of its employees, who were indifferent see wasting needlessly electric lights on, despite the order of the management to reduce consumption, because move such employees in the negative paradigm "that is the work of maintenance personnel" who has to watch for.
up to all that everything works fine. The pretext that this is not up to me, should not apply, because if something is wrong or out of the pre-established STANDARDS, then my commitment to the company should be reflected in immediately take some action to remedy anything that looks abnormal. That action can be expressed as a suggestion to the Head of Department who want to help.
Many employees who are waiting for what the company can do for them, such as loans or awards, but are not as interested in finding out what you can do for the company to improve more every day. There is a complacency or conformity with what we do, ignoring that there is always the possibility of improving our performance and that this should be a corporate goal because competition means that less efficient firms exit the market, and be more efficient "depends of all. "is that we should learn and absorb the group of animal instinct, they know that their survival" depends on all, and consequently, all contribute to achieving the goal of common good of the herd.
These minutes daily tardy arrivals are wasted in rework, in chats over coffee, non-value added product or service of our company. Quite the contrary. They become costs, which then translate into cuts in payroll because there are too many expenses. These people who cause such waste in tardiness or gatherings, are precisely those close emotionally to the owners, who should therefore show the contrary behavior.
depends Housekeeper in a hotel, which was hired by the owners, by old ties of friendship. It happens that friendship is confused with the responsibility, and this lady falls into a level of negligence, failure to comply with the function of informing the rooms ready for sale, resulting in valuable and unrecoverable losses on sales of rooms, which does not care because he is friends with the owners. Such conduct is astonishing on employees, because they see that lady show the two faces of application to work when they are the owners, and the rest of the time wasted in gossip. Employee is the prototype I characterize and conceptualized as an "employee walking" in previous post.
In this situation shows that the recruitment of staff should emerge from the evaluation of the most competent for office, not bonding. Because you lose the concept that the responsibility to come to the company depends on everyone. If you are a friend of the owner, you do not see well, even when it should be the opposite. Y unfortunately this situation is very common in medium and small businesses, as well as in public sector enterprises.
In small details can appreciate the points made in this post. If a clerk goes through a site any of the company and see a waste on the ground, do not feel obliged to "do something" to maintain the image of the company. The sad thing is that perhaps is one which is dedicated to criticize that to happen, showing disloyalty to colleagues who work in maintenance and cleaning of areas. The consequence is that customers observe organizational neglect and disengagement that company, which they know they can arise from disorganization or lack of motivation, and both are bad elements in corporate advertising.
During the period that power rationing was in force in Venezuela, I learned about a company with such a disengagement of its employees, who were indifferent see wasting needlessly electric lights on, despite the order of the management to reduce consumption, because move such employees in the negative paradigm "that is the work of maintenance personnel" who has to watch for.
up to all that everything works fine. The pretext that this is not up to me, should not apply, because if something is wrong or out of the pre-established STANDARDS, then my commitment to the company should be reflected in immediately take some action to remedy anything that looks abnormal. That action can be expressed as a suggestion to the Head of Department who want to help.
Many employees who are waiting for what the company can do for them, such as loans or awards, but are not as interested in finding out what you can do for the company to improve more every day. There is a complacency or conformity with what we do, ignoring that there is always the possibility of improving our performance and that this should be a corporate goal because competition means that less efficient firms exit the market, and be more efficient "depends of all. "is that we should learn and absorb the group of animal instinct, they know that their survival" depends on all, and consequently, all contribute to achieving the goal of common good of the herd. These minutes daily tardy arrivals are wasted in rework, in chats over coffee, non-value added product or service of our company. Quite the contrary. They become costs, which then translate into cuts in payroll because there are too many expenses. These people who cause such waste in tardiness or gatherings, are precisely those close emotionally to the owners, who should therefore show the contrary behavior.
of all that a customer or supplier you visit our company feel welcome to visit. Up to all to maintain order and cleanliness, because the housekeeping is ongoing, and the cleaners are not permanently on our side. Depends on all prevail over efficiency and productivity, leisure and inefficiency.
Preliminary epor III National Participatory Budget, City of Buenos Aires, 3 and 4 December 2010. 
(Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires) 
