Motivation is a process that start, guides and keeps the goal-oriented behavior of a person. Motivation is what causes us to do something and it is because of a reason behind our action like getting a glass of juice to cut thirst. And motivation is very important in handling a person especially in the field of management. Motivation drives an employee to show his or her full potential on a certain job. However before you can motivate that person, it is very important also to know the basic, especially his or her needs. But what are these needs?

Some people might confuse regarding their status/condition on their current employer. I know most of you heard about the Probationary status, Regular or even Temporary in your company’s Human Resource Department. But what are these terms and how can you say that you are on that status? Is it necessary that you should know about these conditions?

Regular Employee

A regular employee or permanent employee is a person who passed through a probationary period of employment. Regular employee is placed on the regular rolls/activity of the company or one who is assigned to perform work directly related to the regular operations of the firm. A regular employee is employed without a definite period and the employer may not terminate his services except for a just cause or when authorized by law. And they even receive benefits like healthcare, holidays, sick leave, etc.

What is “Employment without a definite period”?

An employment is deemed to be without definite period where the employee has been hired without any specific date of termination or period of employment.

Probationary employee

A probationary employee or worker is a person hired to occupy permanent or regular position in the company for a specified trial period to prove if he is acceptable for the job. The probationary period is usually from three to six months or even a year. This period is important to determine employee’s fitness for the job or for learning the job.

The probationary period is a span/period of time during which the employee is under observation on his actual job. It aims to help the new employee learn valuable concepts and to prove or show his potential on the company’s job or for regularization during his first several months of work experience.  Probationary Employee could be dismissed without a probable cause. Also, the employer and the employee should agree or there will be an agreement between the two regarding the probationary period.

Temporary Employee

An employee hired to perform work in a specific project, job, or period, upon completion of which the worker’s employment is terminated. Failure to terminate the employee on or before the expiration of the period of contract or completion of the job, in the case of temporary or casual employment, or of a probationary employment may qualify the employee for regular or permanent employment.

Contractual Employee

A contractual employee is hired on an individual employment contract basis to perform work on a specific project. The duration of such employment is indicated in the employment contract, which may not exceed six months. It is an employment based on contract.

Casual Employee

An employee hired for only a few days or few months at a time to work/perform a unit of work or to fill a gap in the absence of another employee, or a worker who is hired occasionally and intermittently especially during peak production periods. Casual employees may or may not possess special trade skills or qualifications; they are not in the permanent payroll of the same employer.

Photos from Marcato Festival and Dilanchian

Closed-Circuit Television camera also known as CCTV camera, a device used to capture incidents and used on monitoring like buildings, houses and other facilities and it uses a monitor/television. Here in the Philippines, it is commonly used on houses, highways and buildings and even barangay roads. However, there is something that some Filipinos failed to use it to its maximum function, but what is it?

Many incidents and accidents had been caught by the lens of CCTV camera all throughout the year. There is car napping, kidnapping, shooting and even robbery. And all these acts were all caught by the CCTV camera and these will be used when there is an investigation and will be used sometimes as evidence.

A mall was attacked by a group of robbers and according to the news; the security guards looked like they got stunned and some of them got afraid and they just did drop their self. So the robbers succeeded on their evil deeds and they got money more or less 500 thousand pesos and all the incident was caught by the mall’s CCTV camera.

There was a shooting incident where a woman was got gunshot while she’s walking in a lane to fetch her children on school. And the event was captured by the CCTV camera and now, it was used to retrieve the gun man. But the sensational fact was that, the CCTV monitor was located on the Barangay Hall of that place.

It’s a sad fact that all those two events are all unexpected but the question is where the monitoring team is, especially on the Mall robbery? And why they didn’t put personnel to monitor the events captured by the CCTV cameras? These questions were raised by the Ex-Vice President Noli de Castro on TV Patrol last month.

Hey Dude! Why they don't have like us on their country?

I am an avid fan of Nikita, an American Action series, and I saw how they really used the CCTV cameras in order to capture a certain person or event. There is a monitoring team or just a single person assigned to watch over. And this is what some of the Filipinos forget on how to use the CCTV camera to the fullest and this is what I need to emphasize.


Photos from Wikipedia and The Guardian

All of us wanted to destroy the stronghold of corruption. Here’s “Boto mo iPatrol Mo” campaign of ABS-CBN that persuade the people to show the results of injustice or caught-in-the-act scene of corruption. But despite this campaign, still not all the people have the guts or the technology and still the justice is elusive. What are the reasons why still people can’t find the justice and can’t fight the corruption on their own place?

Power of the Person/Company

If you’re just an ordinary person fighting a BIG person or BIG company, it is a hard fight for you to overcome or to win. There are people who are very silent even though the corruption is already in front of them.  Others said, “Just close your mouth; they might hear you and you will be dead!” People are afraid to those who have powers and cannot fight equally.

Underground Agreement

There was an incident and it is about a worker that despite of their effort s in working on this company they didn’t have the right salary; no overtime payment although they had, no benefits despite of a very long time service on the company.  They visited a government office to consult about their problem, but, unfortunately this office had an underground meeting with their unjust company. Still the justice is very blurry.

Others will might say, “it’s a common topic, corruption again?” and my answer to that is “Yes” but you might didn’t know the procedures and why corruption and injustice still exist here in our country, because we failed to know the minor parts. We failed to see what really happened why people prefer to commit crimes than working on a descent job.

Do you have any experiences about injustice and corruption? Are you a victim also? Share your experiences here…

Photos from Heroes Television and Evil Twin in Singapore

Leadership vs. Management

Management

Managers have subordinates

Authoritarian, transactional style

Work focus

Seek comfort

Leadership

Leaders have followers

Charismatic, transformational style

People focus

Seek risk