Report of Indian Institute of Public Administration ... - Ministry of Power

State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
Group III and IV employees in circle-wise and division-wise seniority and the other
for the employees in State-wise seniority. With these actions, the new companies have
not faced any difficulties in absorption of staff.
Some staff and union representatives however, still feel that restructuring is not the
only way and express a view that whatever performance improvements are talked
about after restructuring, cannot be attributed to restructuring alone and could also
have been achieved in previous organisational set up of SEB. In extreme, they point
out that nothing has really changed except for the labels of new companies and their
logos. In support of their argument they point out that they do not notice any
decentralisation in decision-making and major decisions are still driven from
headquarters without realising field situation. This obviously is the view expressed in
the short period after restructuring and will change in future. But it points out that
some employees have not identified themselves with these new companies even after
one year.
At the same time, it has been reported in the press that in an urban circle, the target of
revenue collection was not achieved in the month of April 2006. As a result all
employees in the circle have voluntarily offered to accept a 10 per cent cut in their
salary for the month. This shows complete commitment of the employees to the
organisation. So the status of the employees’ identifying themselves with fulfilling
objectives of the organisation is presently a mixed bag.
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