3M buzz with its charter, rules of work life 3M talk about it in the press gleefully takes the rules imposed by management on the charter of work life.
This allows us to take stock of the implementation of these rules within the Tower CERGY, officially because the charter is not deployed on other sites of production and distribution France (and there are still 11) because the company did not, on these sites, informed the staff representatives.
A charter cosmetic, dangerous and unnecessary
This charter appears to us as a cosmetic that would be put on a face to hide the marks, she cares nothing, does nothing in depth. It is about an image effect (and apparently it works) to show beautiful and presentable. The real causes of stress at 3M can be treated by a charter that does not mean the work overload, lack of employee recognition, restoration necessary as a means of collective control, the total lack of reflection around work organization to evolve to adapt work to man and not the opposite.
spots are reporting more and more cumbersome and no longer allow managers to close (but still does really) to stay close to their teams together to create the true collective performance.
In 2010, the massive use of conventional failure by HRB has driven a considerable workload for those remaining. The proposed integration of 3M Health is the forceps and pressure was put on teams that have already exhausted without additional means such integration loop as soon as possible. There is a real ignorance on the part of management about what the actual work of employees.
Clearly tables and Excel power point presentations can give an accurate representation of the work of employees. Yet these are the only tools to control the direction. With these tools, only the king is naked, unable to understand what is really happening in the business. The charter
effects of a cosmetic because even the proposals made by staff representatives to invest in awareness training are not implemented, so that we had made the request there are more than a year.
The charter is dangerous because it places the employee as the first responsible for his health. It reverses the liability and health work on the employee and not on the employer as required by law. Finally, if an employee is not right, we will know him very well recall the terms of this charter and accuse him of having done too much ... after all if you are sick it is your fault. This form of guilt of employees, in advance, is quite dangerous and almost amoral.
It is also dangerous because it asks the impossible things to the employee. The famous saying no is dangerous, dangerous for your progress and even your future in society. People perceive that it is dificult to say no to the dictates of direction with respect to the objectives of growth and profitability imposed by management. There are ultimately many things that are not discussed. The rules and orders that are established and have given, at the moment, everything to do with the military. We must stand at attention ...
While the example does not come from top management and that France will not rise a little independence from the executive edicts from Japan, nothing will happen ... Members of the Executive, to give you an example.
Finally this policy seems unnecessary same as management does not enforce it. It should be remembered that the day after its release on the site of Cergy, management was eager to convene in executive placement forty days and promised to work from 08:00 am to 23:00 at night over, and trampling under foot the principles or recommendations of the charter which recalls the prohibition of meetings after 18:00.
(This is what we were saying at the time) promises only bind those who believe and those who do not.
We call for the site of Cergy, a process that can requestionner work and organization employees work, it requires a will, real and proven executive to play the game, frankly, honestly and thoroughly. For the moment we doubt this because we will not see any real, tangible and visible on the site of Cergy.