Rohit Bansal - IIT Roorkee

Proper Placement - A great motivatorBy Umesh KumarEfficient placement policy not only increase individual outcome but also improve thecompetitiveness of organizations. The best policy is to place right person at right place.The placement policy should focus onensuring maximum possible synergybetween the job profile of each employeeand the area of his core competence. Theprofessionally qualified person should besuitably placed. For development ofspecialized skills, the area of corecompetence of each employee should beidentified by close scrutiny of hiseducational and other relevant background.Change of job profile or place of postingmay be projected as an opportunity toexpand one's horizons. The transfer policyshould be so designed that it enables theorganization to make maximum use of thepotential of every employee. The ability,capability, experience, interest, aptitude andattitude of an employee should be taken intoaccount while deciding his or her placementas it has significant impact on the morale ofthe employee. Proper placement and transferenhances the level of self confidence andinspires the individual to perform better. Bythis, he becomes fully devoted to theorganization. It also inspires him to takeinitiatives and innovativeness, which are thenecessary ingredients of a progressiveorganization. It is upon the organizations tocater knowledge, skills, and abilities ofhuman capital by providing a perfect matchbetween need and availability of skills.It is gradually being felt that due tocomplexity of task, technologicalinnovations, demanding customersbusinesses are heading towards an era ofspecialization. Every business needsspecialists, be it production & operation,finance, R&D, marketing etc. This is why,during the last few years there has been massscale recruitment of specialists in industry.The desirability of each employee beingdeveloped as specialist in any fieldaccording to his interest and aptitude cannotbe ruled out because each employee cannotbe considered suitable for every type of job.Hence, it can be said that in the comingyears, organizations will have to groomevery employee as "jack of all trades andmaster of one" because for being groomedand to perform successfully in any field atleast firsthand knowledge of other relatedfields is a must.Business organizations are aggregates of