On
26th February 2016, a panel discussion was organised by the students
of Organizational Behaviour from I MA Applied Sociology on the topic “Employee Counselling, Cohesiveness and Decision-making
in an Organization” under the guidance of Dr. Sheila Mathew, Professor,
Department of Sociology, which
was moderated by Ashween Lama, and Vishica Gwendolen.
The class was divided
into three groups. Each panel was assigned topics namely, ‘Employee
Counselling’, ‘Designing Motivational Strategies’ and ‘Cohesiveness and
Decision-making techniques’. The first group started by defining employee counselling and
gradually moved to discussing the need for employee counselling. Along with
discussing the need for employee counselling, they also discussed the types and
steps involved in it and the current status of employee counselling in the organizations
based in India.
The
second set of panelists continued with discussions on motivation
strategies for knowledge workers and different rewards to motivate employees.
They focused on discussing motivating job design and the way of using the
rewards in order to keep employees motivated. Also the job characteristic model
and employee involvement were the part of discussion.
The
third group of panelists discussed the concept of group cohesiveness and
its importance in an organization. They talked about the different approaches
to decision-making and problem solving. The panelists also discussed some case
studies of problem-solving and decision making. The group further elaborated on
how effective supervision helps in achieving desired goals and the different
approaches to the process of planning as a whole.
In
conclusion, the panelists observed Employee counselling as an important aspect
to increase and sustain employee motivation, reduce absenteeism and increase
performance in an organization. Also, how effective decision making techniques
are essential in the problem solving in an organization.
Anushka Sharma
MA Applied Sociology
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