Employees-Friendly Governance can reduce Corruption

Employees-Friendly Governance can reduce Corruption

-Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia*

The Human Capital is the most valuable asset to a nation. India requires initiatives to retain talent. Indians are leading whole world except Indian Companies... why? 

What can be done to improve the situation? 

In last three decades after implementing initiatives of Globalization and liberalization, the governments in both states and union territories of India gave more emphasis on reducing the benefits to the employees working in Government organizations. It had been tried to reduce the financial burdens in the form of salaries, retirement benefits, bonuses etc. The Governments also worked to encourage incorporating private players in various sectors of Indian economy. No doubt, the economic growth and progress happened as per expectations but one thing which had been overlooked and also in present days affected the system, has been increasing that is corruption and black money.

The initiatives of Demonitization and promoting use of digital transactions are not enough to contain economic problems of India. The entry of various corporates being handled from other economies and directly or indirectly getting support from the top-most offices of Government; originated a position beyond control of Reserve Bank of India and Finance Ministry.

The supreme court, high courts, Lokayuktas, Police Commissioners had been playing great roles than the Enforcement agencies of Government in restarting mal-practices in Governance system.

The out-sourcing and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) may be financially beneficial but the leakage of confidental government information and the increasing number of Cyber Crimes made us convinced to rethink upon adoption of employees-friendly governance. It is required to satisfy the Government Officers, employees, and upcoming IT-professionals to not leave government organizations in the greed of higher salaries being offered by Multinational Companies. The talent retention has become the key challenge. Around the world, Indian talent is being leaked and other countries are taking benefits by being ruled by talented Indians born in India but adopted citizenship of their country. If we view at major causes of corruption then one cause which may be 100% true for the developing economies is "Giving less salaries and fixing higher responsibilities of employees working in Government organizations". 

Recently in February 2019, the Anti-Corruption Bureau caught officials working in Secretariat of Telangana Government red handed for taking bribe. It is also found that the officers i.e. Assistant Section Officers, Section Officers, Deputy Directors possess lands worth of crores and they also have investments in Multinational Companies  (MNCs). The excess leverage with employees friendly environment may lead to excess corruption. 

The Niti Aayog should work towards talent retention in Government Organizations by adopting employees-friendly Governance so that the employees working in Government Organizations not only to protect the privacy but also to motivate employees for working sincerely in the interest of Government Organizations.

Jai Hind - Jai Bharat

*Copyright © 2017 Dr. Lalit Kumar. All rights reserved. 

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