A company’s organizational discipline speaks volumes about it. Management, with in the company’s premises, can choose to control the employee’s behavior or give them all the freedom. Both of these strategies will have different outcomes, but in my opinion only companies which have overall control, at least with in its premises will have good productivity.
If the employees are given all the freedom, then there will not be any commonality among them, as they will be more representing themselves than the company, which in turn takes away the sense of oneness. As the norms of the company play a big role to generate this sense of oneness among employees.
Secondly, if the employees are let loose then there is a good chance that they will concentrate in accomplishing their personal work during the office hours and probably with companies resources, which would decrease the company’s productivity. Also if they have the freedom to go to office at any time they choose to, then the work or decisions which are interdependent among employees will be heavily delayed.
Many can argue that company’s tyranny will be demoralizing for employees, I agree to some extent, but too much freedom will do no good for company’s performance. It will be like government giving all the freedom to its citizens when driving on roads. Then we can not imagine the number of accident that would occur. No one would follow the speed limits, the stop sign and yield warnings, signal rules etc. The whole traffic will become chaotic. The same chaos will occur if companies give too much freedom.
For the benefit of company’s productivity and atmosphere it is always advisable to have control on the employees. This is the only way to ensure effective and smooth running of the company.
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