A NEW ECONOMIC MODEL (PERFORMANCE BASED)
Over the years firms employ
people for their time especially in Nigeria. An average office job is a 6am-6pm
time frame. So irrespective of whether the day was productive or not, an
employee is expectant of his Something Always Low
And Ridicles You (Peanuts) at the end of a
time frame usually 30 days. But, permit to forsee the future, that productivity
will be underlying factor to earn as one will be paid by one’s performance and
not by one’s time. What this means is that,
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A sales person would not get expected pay until
he/she meet target sales.
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An employee earning a steady salary let’s say
N100,000 would have it slashed to basic pay like N20,000 and would be given a
performance benchmark to meet up to earn additional pay. No, you have no option
than to keep the job because there are several persons who will jump at the
job. Moreso, the firm has nothing to lose but everything to gain. You are the
one on the hot seat. Hit the target, earn more. Fail to do that; earn far less.
Now, by the time you consistently hit performance target, guess what? It would
be raised (a new target is given). Listen, that is what the future holds for
every profession sooner or later.
Is someone saying it’s not
possible? Ok. May I remind you, there are lesser jobs to do courtesy of
technology and recession. Firms are cutting cost with immediate alarcrity.
Thus, creating an under-staffed working environment with only the anointed few
either by merit or by the opposite of it that were spared. These spared
employees are over-worked and given expected targets. Check around in the
banking sector, civil service, the oil and gas sector to come to terms with
reality.
Still in doubt? if I may ask;
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when was the last time you wrote a letter and
posted it? When you could just make call.
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When was the last time you bought/rent movies in
a movie store? When you could just download away in a jiffy.
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When was the last time you went to the bank to
withdraw at the counter? When the ATM is a stone’s throw away.
Do you realize, technology and
efficiency is taking away our every day jobs.The hand writing is well written
on the wall. You can choose to read, acknowledge and begin to re-align or worst
still ignore it. A new Economic model has come to stay and has brought with it
the means to survive it (Network Marketing).
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