Striking a Balance

There is a need to come up with employment laws or contracts which could cater to the interest of both employees and employers. From the employer’s perspective, there could be a chance that employee giving more weightage to his other innovations and thus his work for which he is being paid off might get affected. Also as mentioned by Priyanka, there are some confidential information which gets stored as the employee’s intellect, crucial for the success of the business and if employee switches job he could leak out that information. Whereas if we look from employees perspective, they are not given due credit and all the credit and ownership of innovation done by employee is taken away by the company.

So there is a requirement to balance both sides and create a win-win situation for both the parties. Some companies give healthy remuneration to the employees for innovations or development of ideas as mentioned by Gladson. And there is a company where only a single person gets all the fame for the work done by the employees. I think that companies should realize that doing the same sort of work repeatedly make things monotonous for employees and affects their interest level. For that companies should take initiative to sustain high level of interest among employees towards the task assigned to them as part of their duty. It should also encourage them for creating new ideas by giving them their due credits. And on the employee side, he should give due importance to the task assigned to him and must give credit to the company for providing him resources that helped him in his innovation.

I feel that employees should exercise the power of freedom as mentioned by other participants. However, I am not in total agreement with Varun. A person is surrounded by many factors when he joins a job and on most of the occasions he is not in a position to exercise his negotiating power due to unavoidable circumstances. In that case, he has to join the job. However doing this, he would lose his creativity.

Thus I would like to end by repeating my words that, if a proper balance is maintained then interest of both employee as well as employer can be sustained.