UPC: A Fairness Based Paradigm for Cohesive Cadre Management

Abstract

Large organizations, in particular public sector organizations contain many employees and they have grouped them into various cadres. Managing all these cadres is a tedious job. The benefits offered to the employees of different cadres may vary to a greater extent. This results in the occurrence of new problems. Due to this there is a high possibility of career growth imbalance for employees of some cadres while employees belonging to some other cadre with the same experience as the former cadre may achieve relatively high career growth. This scheme also results in limited scope for job rotation & job enrichment and stagnation beyond acceptable levels. In other words, it does not maintain a fairness level among the employees. Here we propose a new approach, Unified Professional Cadre (UPC) which eliminates the above said shortcomings of the existing scheme and offers a poised approach thereby integrating all the existing cadres of an organization under a single parasol. In UPC, all the employees fall under the same cadre which offers the same benefits to all. Promotions are offered based on a unified merit list for all the cadres. This merit list is based on the transactional, behavioral and course credits earned by the employees during a certain period of time. Seniority also plays a vital role in the creation of the unified merit list. This entire approach maintains fairness in all aspects of every employee’s bouquet of benefits. The benefits of UPC are multi skilling, role rotation, objective performance appraisal, equal weightage to all, etc.