Dignity as Performance

As it is not very uncommon to find that the world we live in today is very performance oriented. All the tools, processes, methodologies innovated or recycled today are done while thinking of performance in mind. I have met a lot of people who are working in order to support their living. The abstract of asking them all about their professional lives have always been associated with performance. For e.g Let us consider one of the most common, day to day examples of any working employee. The employee’s performance in work is directly related to:

• Dignity

• Appraisal

• Incentive

• Reputation

• Repeat Hire

Now let us try and understand in detail, about this concept of Performance:

As such there is no one single definition of Performance which is universally accepted but in order to describe performance, we can summarize it as an accomplishment of any task given, which we can measure against the present set standards of completeness, efficiency, effectiveness, accuracy and reliability (Kim, Y., & Cohen, D. (2010)). There is no single unique definition of performance. Actually the performance of anyone is measured with respect to the environment, the person is in. The other most important term in the discussion is dignity which is no less in authority compared to the term performance. Dignity has no specific definition but if a meaningful definition would be somewhat like the state or quality wherein the person is able to flag his/ her respect or self esteem.

Dignity

Often the term dignity is not used directly in day to day transactions but is often indirectly used by means of other terms. Some of the terms which often refer to dignity in one way or the other in the office environment are as follows:

• Organisation Citizenship,

• Self or team satisfaction,

• Mutuality,

• Pride in work

• Autonomy

• Ontological security

• Organizational Growth.

and many more wherein, some way or the other, dignity of an individual is related.

Apart from these welcome indicators of dignity, there are some indicators which provide hints towards the indignity happening in an organization. Things like mismanagement, long hours at work, workplace bullying, unstable manager- employee relation, workplace harassment, or poor working environment. Often high attrition also serves as a real time reminder for helping the organization understand and investigate