1) The firm could have made the employee feel valued through proper training and counseling, it could have created a sense of obligation which would have instilled Deontic Motivation into Rajiv.
2) The firm could have Deontically motivated the employee to ensure a higher level of productivity.
3) The company could increase the productivity of this employee by increasing his levels of Deontic Motivation.
4) Deontic motivation is the highest form of motivation and ………………………………..
The only connection between the above mentioned statements is that these were the four options that were considered by my group, to be used in our project report. Honestly speaking, I don’t have a clue as to which of these versions finally made it to the report. The reason we did put one of these versions in the report is that our professor seemed to be quite passionate about this theory of motivation and as “Sacche Students”; it is our duty to use such information to hopefully earn a few extra marks.
If we succeed in our purpose, then I would be Deontically motivated; otherwise I would be Deontically demotivated.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Laptops from Acer
A few days back, I had the good fortune of interacting with the Acer’s repair center in Bangalore. Here is how a part of the telephonic conversation went:
Me: I need to know where the customer service center is located. Can you please give me the address along with a landmark?
Them: Sir it’s in front of St. Joseph’s Arts and Science College. It’s near Richmond circle.
Me: I don’t know where St Josephs’s Arts and Science College is. So can you please tell me as to how can I get there from the Richmond circle?
Them: Sir it’s right in front of St Joseph’s Arts and Science College.
Me: I really don’t know where this college is.
Them: Sir it’s in Shanthinagar. (Giving me a whole freaking Lok Sabha constituency as a landmark was very helpful on their part.)
This conversation ensured that I had a very high opinion of them, even before I had the privilege of meeting them. It’s kind of superfluous to state that I wasn’t in the least disappointed after visiting this repair shop. To provide a bit of background information, I had a HP laptop that I used for 2.5 years and this HP laptop had caused me less problems than an Acer Aspire 3680 has caused me in 6 months.
My Experience at the repair shop:
The visit to this repair shop was very enlightening to say the least. Some of the pearls of wisdom that were very graciously shared by the service center folks are as follows:
1) Please don’t update your windows OS regularly. This is the reason your OS has crashed. (No comments)
2) Opening the laptop and cleaning it would help the power button in functioning normally (WTF). Although to be fair, he said that it is only a temporary solution (WTF again).
3) Changing a small ring-shaped part will cost 15K at 11 AM in the morning and 5K at 12:15 (Didn’t know that the price of electronic items fall that fast) in the afternoon. God knows why something that trivial requires a chipset level change which in turn would lead to a change in the motherboard (I would have laughed aloud, if the joke wasn’t on me).
4) Two people in front of me were asked to go for an Annual Maintenance Contract worth Rs 6016 (or something like that). Unless they expect us to use sledgehammers on our laptop, I don’t see the point of this contract (That would be true for other manufacturers. For these “Touch me not” series of laptops, it is quite a fair deal. Hell, I got a total estimate of 22k for a laptop costing in the region 35k :D ).
To top it all, each time a problem was narrated to the contact person; he closed his eyes (not unlike the manner in which Hiro Nakamura does while freezing time. He probably did that to figure out the maximum amount that one would be willing to pay for the given service) and came up with estimates such as 2k, 5k, 15K.
Last few words on this
1) Don’t know why people refer to Wall Street Bankers as “Thugs” when the masters of the art reside in India.
2) Acer - Buy at your own peril
Me: I need to know where the customer service center is located. Can you please give me the address along with a landmark?
Them: Sir it’s in front of St. Joseph’s Arts and Science College. It’s near Richmond circle.
Me: I don’t know where St Josephs’s Arts and Science College is. So can you please tell me as to how can I get there from the Richmond circle?
Them: Sir it’s right in front of St Joseph’s Arts and Science College.
Me: I really don’t know where this college is.
Them: Sir it’s in Shanthinagar. (Giving me a whole freaking Lok Sabha constituency as a landmark was very helpful on their part.)
This conversation ensured that I had a very high opinion of them, even before I had the privilege of meeting them. It’s kind of superfluous to state that I wasn’t in the least disappointed after visiting this repair shop. To provide a bit of background information, I had a HP laptop that I used for 2.5 years and this HP laptop had caused me less problems than an Acer Aspire 3680 has caused me in 6 months.
My Experience at the repair shop:
The visit to this repair shop was very enlightening to say the least. Some of the pearls of wisdom that were very graciously shared by the service center folks are as follows:
1) Please don’t update your windows OS regularly. This is the reason your OS has crashed. (No comments)
2) Opening the laptop and cleaning it would help the power button in functioning normally (WTF). Although to be fair, he said that it is only a temporary solution (WTF again).
3) Changing a small ring-shaped part will cost 15K at 11 AM in the morning and 5K at 12:15 (Didn’t know that the price of electronic items fall that fast) in the afternoon. God knows why something that trivial requires a chipset level change which in turn would lead to a change in the motherboard (I would have laughed aloud, if the joke wasn’t on me).
4) Two people in front of me were asked to go for an Annual Maintenance Contract worth Rs 6016 (or something like that). Unless they expect us to use sledgehammers on our laptop, I don’t see the point of this contract (That would be true for other manufacturers. For these “Touch me not” series of laptops, it is quite a fair deal. Hell, I got a total estimate of 22k for a laptop costing in the region 35k :D ).
To top it all, each time a problem was narrated to the contact person; he closed his eyes (not unlike the manner in which Hiro Nakamura does while freezing time. He probably did that to figure out the maximum amount that one would be willing to pay for the given service) and came up with estimates such as 2k, 5k, 15K.
Last few words on this
1) Don’t know why people refer to Wall Street Bankers as “Thugs” when the masters of the art reside in India.
2) Acer - Buy at your own peril
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Indian Cricket Team is Ranked Number 1
Indian cricket team has recently been ranked number 1 in the world. But as a supporter of the Indian cricket team, I am not all happy as this achievement owes more to an abstruse ranking system than to our team’s performance.
How can a team which comprises of an excuse of a bowling attack, a decent batting lineup with little or no fielding skills be the best test team in the world? If indeed ours is the best cricket team in the world (I strongly disagree), then that speaks volumes about the quality of test teams across the world.
How can a team which comprises of an excuse of a bowling attack, a decent batting lineup with little or no fielding skills be the best test team in the world? If indeed ours is the best cricket team in the world (I strongly disagree), then that speaks volumes about the quality of test teams across the world.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Why I don't generally like Historical Movies
The impression that I have of historical movies is formed on the basis of the very few good and the truck load of bad (such as Troy, Alexander, Gladiator, Kingdom Of Heaven etc) historical movies that I have been subjected to. My problems with these historical are as follows:
Alexander
1. The soldiers of Porus were fighting with weapons which were so exotic that no Indian has ever seen them.
2. Darius was portrayed as either dumb or as someone refereeing a game of Basketball (Not sure if those gestures can be used anywhere else).
3. The famous line attributed to Porus was mouthed by the daughter of Darius.
4. Wasting the talents of Anthony Hopkins in this offering which logically speaking belongs in the gutters.
Troy
1. Orlando Bloom should enroll himself in acting classes and stop inflicting his non-existent acting skills on the audience.
2. Brad Pitt being casted as Achilles (This single move shoved Odysseus in the background as some sort of a sidekick).
3. How on Earth did the battle get over in less than a week?
4. Where exactly are the Greek gods who supposedly played such a key role in the battle of Troy?
5. Can’t the legendary heroes come up with some original lines instead of uttering cliched lines which belong in a Chuck Norris/Van Damme movie?
But then, watching the Monty Python series gives me some hope that great historical can indeed be made (As long as the mainstream Hollywood stays away from it).
Alexander
1. The soldiers of Porus were fighting with weapons which were so exotic that no Indian has ever seen them.
2. Darius was portrayed as either dumb or as someone refereeing a game of Basketball (Not sure if those gestures can be used anywhere else).
3. The famous line attributed to Porus was mouthed by the daughter of Darius.
4. Wasting the talents of Anthony Hopkins in this offering which logically speaking belongs in the gutters.
Troy
1. Orlando Bloom should enroll himself in acting classes and stop inflicting his non-existent acting skills on the audience.
2. Brad Pitt being casted as Achilles (This single move shoved Odysseus in the background as some sort of a sidekick).
3. How on Earth did the battle get over in less than a week?
4. Where exactly are the Greek gods who supposedly played such a key role in the battle of Troy?
5. Can’t the legendary heroes come up with some original lines instead of uttering cliched lines which belong in a Chuck Norris/Van Damme movie?
But then, watching the Monty Python series gives me some hope that great historical can indeed be made (As long as the mainstream Hollywood stays away from it).
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