Managing Employment right under the Economic Recession

Management experts and most of our think-tanks in the Human Resources Management discipline seem to have lost focus or ran of the right ideas and the appropriate measures for managing employment crisis that comes with the current global economic recession. What we read and hear on a diurnal basis is an increasing number of retrenchments, sacks; down-sizing and all the heart-breaking stories of job lost or worst still joblessness in different parts of the world.

Amusingly, nobody seem to have given a thought the idea of rising through the ranks or ascending the career ladder and then, quitting at the due time for others to trail the path as well. Perhaps, this is a function of greed or lost of memory, or possibly an oversight. And one thing financial experts and economists alike have not told those of us who are alien to that discipline is where the dearth of funds which characterize the recession is coming from and where the money went?

But judging with the hunch, one can deduce that the money which was once in our system, but developed wings all of a sudden, must have flown to an unknown destination. And the onus is for someone to locate that locale. Until, we address the circumstances that gave rise to the funds-flight, this idea of bailout will only slow our days of salvation.

Whilst, that is being pondered, anyone can help remind our Human Resource persons to apply the Staff Analysis and Job Evaluation (SAJE) model strictly, so that as people are ascending the career ladder, they’re encouraged to quit at the apex of their career or climax into self-employment or partnership with people of their caliber. For instance, if two professionals from a Chrysler, a GM, a SHELL or Coca-Cola could pull out at the due time following the aforementioned model, and then put their pay-off/benefits into one venture, they would’ve created massive jobs for ages. In fact, the job spread can go on and on, and even beg for hands to engage. Unfortunately, the future of many has been mortgaged by greed, complacency, insensitivity and lack of foresight.

Pitiably, in the event all these retrenchment, down-sizing or whatever, the comfortable in almost every system is never affected, rather the bourgeoisie are the brunt bearers. Thus, widening the deep gorge between the rich and the poor; interestingly, no one seems to remember that the more the number of poor peoples the more the danger that awaits the few rich people.

Well, those of us who in jobs might be less concern, while those out of jobs maybe loosing heads with the worries of where our next meal or rents will come from. But that at least one should, and the best persons for that Herculean task are the Human Resources Manager (HRM) and the Public Relations Manager (PRM). And all they need to do is to apply the SAJE Model strictly, despite who horse will be gored in the course of its application.

People who have made their marks should be encouraged to quit while the ovation is reverberating. And the wealth amassed should be plunged into investments solely or in partnership with colleagues, friends, associates and relatives. We all owe a responsibility to cater for one and others, build and happy world for all and sundry. The era of all to myself and others should go to blazes are over, today's proximity, mutuality and interests are interwoven, and it is such that even if you try to close your ears and eyes to the cries or problems of people, the noise and the danger associated with such insensitivity is enormous.

And so, the solution is in the judicious and conscious application of the Staff Analysis and Job Evaluation (SAJE) model, which calls for professionals who have risen through their career ranks to quit the stage for others, the moment they arrive the top. It goes further to demand from such veterans, an investment obligation; by so doing they are able to create jobs from both ends, .i.e. from where they’re coming from, which will then have a job opening and again at their next destination where team members or players will be required at their new investment arena.

Furthermore, those who are affected by job lost of any form can as well apply the wisdom of investing their savings and earnings into private or joint ventures, that way they can create jobs for themselves and for others and even those who haven’t tested the job feel but incidentally locked out, by the impact of current global financial/economic crisis.