Empathy at Work

Empathy at Work

Post swearing in ceremony after general elections in India were much debated topic especially after allocation of ministries to those who swore in. Our HRD(Human Recourse Development) minister Smriti Irani was under acute criticism by political group regarding her qualification to became as HRD minister for the county having more than billion population.

Few people were opinion that HRD minister must be well qualified person. Her qualification is 12^th pass out; according to criticizers this qualification doesn't suits to become the HRD minister. India has set well framed qualification criteria for all government position except for minister. Criticizers have forgotten that they were given ample opportunity to set requisite qualification criteria for ministers but somehow they have missed it to reserve their right to criticize others.

Do we really think that qualification in real sense matters for the general positions like ministers those are provided with qualified administrative mechanism ranges from secretary, IAS Officers to clerks? However, I do believe that qualification matters and requisite for specified positions like doctors, civil engineer those who are directly involved in implementation.  

The point of discussion is Smriti is young minister having lot of empathy to work with sector and set milestone under her tenure with HRD ministry.  She has raises herself to the level that she deserves to become HRD minister. Her journey towards destination is not the cakewalk. She is theatrical actress and gained her name and fame in Indian television space.                           

She is carrying empathy with her to perform her duties as HRD minister. It wasn't the easy task to gain name with this qualification especially when there is cut through completion.

She knows what it takes to became well educated without any formal education. She knows the loop wholes in education system and where interventions are needed to make thousands of Smriti’s. In fact being women her immediate focus must be on skilling women. Where we are as a county lagging behind far.                                                  

Education has changed its own definition to ‘skilling’. Where people are trained to gain some meaningful livelihood. Skilling one women would skilled entire family.  Her appointment would help India to get benefit of demographic dividend.

I sincerely believed that empathy at workplace will help to flourish performance of individual. Empathy is psychological term where person is having ability put oneself into other shoes and feel the way they are feeling. And actions towards empathetic emotions would deliver great deal of desirable performance. Empathy is helps individual to get aligned with organizational vision and evolve the vision. Empathy also helps to complement individual values to become shared values. Empathy got its own important place when diversity merges to form unity.

I am hopeful that her empathetic skill sets will help India to transform image from Scam India to ‘Skilled India’.

Empathy at work will transform India.

Regards

Amol Nakve