2011年05月25日（星期三）
Based on these 3 professions - human resources, finance and accounting - This isn't exactly a piece of encouraging news, when i know of many pple around me who are not very happy with their current job... a brief check on FB may have shown alot of pple always "complaining" bout how work suckx, or how their bosses rots... In a bad way, does it mean that these bosses themselves have no idea what their staff are doing, too reliant on staff? Or there is a flaw in the work process such that the staff cannot be away and unreachable... So then they expect their staff to be contactable even when on leave... i feel expecting the staff to be reachable and actually contacting a staff when he/she is on leave are 2 separate issues... In a good way, does it mean the staff is indispensable at some times??
Does the bosses' "out-of-work" expectations translate into monetary terms? I feel the answer is a clear NO, because... that is supposed to be the staff's "commitment" to work. I know of someone... whoose boss is a single woman and expects everyone to be like her, with her so-called "sense of commitment"... I'm not surprise if her staff's KPIs has an unwritten "commitment after work" which she measures. Well, being single at a matured age, she certainly explicitly demonstrates work-life balance to her employees becoz work = life... She has forgotten that other pple has a life to lead...
Which leads me to think further... if there is a positive correlation between the number of single bosses and demanding bosses here in HK and Singapore...
Will the results have been different if the survey was done on other functions?
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Survey: HK and Singapore bosses most demanding By News Desk in Kuala Lumpur/The Star | ANN – Tue, May 24, 2011 Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) - A survey found that Hong Kong and Singapore bosses were the most demanding in the Asia-Pacific region, Malaysia's largest selling Chinese newspaper Sin Chew Daily reported. A total of 68% of bosses in Hong Kong expect their subordinates to be reachable even when they are on leave, while 45% of bosses in Singapore expect the same. In contrast, only 22% of bosses in Australia and 20% in New Zealand expect their subordinates to be on standby after office hours. The survey results showed the working environment in Hong Kong was the toughest in the Asia-Pacific region. The survey was carried out by an international executive search and human resources firm which interviewed 1,651 human resources, finance and accounting professionals from Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. Source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/survey-hk-singapore-bosses-most-demanding-051002700.html |
