ARTIFICIAL SHORTAGE OF SUCCESSORS OF ORGANISATIONS ( WHEN WRONG SUCCESSORS ARE IN DEMAND AND RIGHT SUCCESSORS ARE IGNORED)
ARTIFICIAL SHORTAGE OF SUCCESSORS OF ORGANISATIONS ( WHEN WRONG
SUCCESSORS ARE IN DEMAND AND RIGHT SUCCESSORS ARE IGNORED)
I keep reading and
hearing from time to time that some important organizations in the Government
Sector ( Public Sector ), Co-operative Sector and Private Sector in India are
not able to get successors to replace the Heads (Chief Executives or CEOs or
Chairmen or Head of the Institution by any Designation it may be called).
If considered on
reality basis, it is always an “Artificial Shortage“. It is artificial
shortage, because such organizations will be looking for the “Wrong Successors”
and they will be overlooking or ignoring the “Right Successors” who should be
the natural choices.
The availability of
Wrong Successors will be limited, while they will be more in demand, therefore
there will be artificial shortage of successors. The dearth of the Right
Successors will never be there, however, they will not be picked up, overlooked
or ignored as they will not most likely foot the bill of the appointers would
look for.
A Wrong Successor will
be the one who will do everything at the behest of its appointers, the
appointer will be an individual by any Statutory Power or a group having
management powers such as the Board of Directors ( or by whatever name the
Management Board may be called ). A Right Successor, will do what is right for
the organization and may not oblige the wishes, whims, fancies and desires of
the appointers that may not be in the good interest of the organizations. The
Right Successors will be scandalized, victimized, intimidated and even will be
rubbished falsely by their fitness ( both physical and mental, and/or aging )
and will ultimately be sidelined, overlooked or ignored.
I am told and I have
also read in the press/media that, one of the Famous Brand and Largest State
Co-operative Dairy Federations of India is not getting a Successor for its
MD(Managing Director, the CEO). I can guarantee, they are not getting a successor,
because they are looking for a Wrong Successor.
Also, a successor, as
the Chairman of an Important Dairy Board is not available to the National level
appointers for more than one and half years now, they have to manage by giving
temporary charge to some person, it goes without saying, they are not looking
for the Right Successor. The Right Successors may be overlooked or ignored, the
possible grounds I have said above.
A beautiful example is
even a premier business school, real life case and evidence to cite with
authenticity are there, mentioning as the readers will understand easily. In
the institute, the business school, the Appointers (Search Committee or its
Board) could not get a Successor, so that they had to appoint a Non-Qualified
person as its Director in 2017, nobody can say that it is baseless, because the
appointers (its search committee trio) have written in black and white and
signed by their own signatures, in authentic documents that have been placed for
legal scrutiny, that they could not get any successor and not even among the
qualified persons who had applied in response to the advertisement without
conducting any interview, they could only get that person (it was the Wrong
Successor), who created a mesh in that institution causing lot of reputation
loss.
Even in defense sector,
I read a lot about it, many times they don’t find successors easily. Because,
if the Right Successors are looked for, they will be found easily and plentily,
however, as I said, getting the Wrong Successors will always be a problem.
There has been some recent instance, it appeared in the media.
In all kinds of
Organizations including governments, co-operatives and non-governments also, it
can be invariably observed, it has been also empirically observed, when the
look out is for the Wrong Successors, there will be shortage and none will be
found or there will be difficulty in finding it. In reality, if they look for
Right Successors they will get it easily and plentily.
This article has lot of significance in the contemporary times.
About the Author : Dr. Nimain Charan Biswal is a B.Sc.(Agri. Science and Technology), M.B.A. and Ph.D.(Management Area ) by qualifications and he has 36 years of work experience in both industrial and development sectors in diversified fields of social importance. He has been educated at Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT)-Bhubaneswar, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and Gujarat University (with Resource Support of IIM-Ahmedabad). Dr. Biswal is further educated at IIM-Calcutta, XLRI-Jamshedpur, Apple Computer Industries and Spar Inc., USA. He has worked for reputed National and International Organizations in Senior/Top Management Capacities at Board level as well as Managing Director and CEO. He is a management expert covering extensive areas from management in agriculture, industrial management, development management to management of public systems. He is a prominent professional of India and known Internationally as well. He lives at Mumbai in India.
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