Access Denied !!!

The pain of "Accedd Denied !!!" is all to well know to employees of companies who are paranoid about security and who like to monitor the movements of the employees. These companies believe that restricting an employee from a few handful of sites is the best thing it can do to increase productivity.

Productivity ! - Well here is an oft used word. I am not sure the employees actually know the meaning of it. Like all that is said about convincing a person here to the Carrot and the Stick ideology will hold. How can a persons productivity incerase. The first method is to understand at an employee level what is his most cherished thing and what will he get out of the same. It could be Modey , Big bonus, travel , lax work timings , the role responsibility he is looking for. But who decides what is fair and what is implementable. Well a manager could try to employee better and accordingly put it across and get it implemented. Because if a person dosent get whats he believes he is ment to have then in effect he becomes a process runner and productivity gets affected.

Hence let the person be free. See what really drives a person .Instead of denying access to certain websites track usage on what are the type of sites he is visiting or keeping open for a long time. This could give a topic of conversation to managers and could also make them more atuned to the subordinates. But the eternal question remains that what do you do with a gamer ? i.e. a person who is clever /intutive enough to understand the system and then play it towards his advantage. Ahh! but this to is an indicator to what the person wantes. Hence dont Deny access.

Access Granted ! Proceed with caution.!

HR Tips - woah i should be involved wit hsome of this non-implementables.