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Knowledge management in banks must The IT industry defines knowledge management as warehousing and mining of data to create decision support systems, marketing support systems and management support systems. Knowledge management in service organisation like banks is a process of creating, formalisation, disseminating and confirming the understanding of knowledge/information necessary to perform a task. The task could be — meeting the information needs of a prospective customer, serving a customer without quality gap, understanding various risks inherent in loan proposals and thereby eliminating/reducing the chances of adverse selection of assets compliance of accounting and governing standards and other regulatory requirements, handling industrial relation issue, finding training and other solutions to issues of organisational concern, formulating policy guidelines, management of non-performance assets, risk management, etc. Accumulated experience suggests that today’s business environment does not support playing by pre defined policies/rules. It puts a premium on understanding and adapting as the rules of the game in marketplace keep changing. This is more so when changing business rules, conventions and assumptions are supported by business ecosystems comprising social, political, legal, economic and technological factors. Knowledge management caters to the critical issues of organisational adaptation, survival and competence in the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Unless a business organisation establishes and strengthens mechanisms for creating new and reusable knowledge and pumps it efficiently throughout its network, it will soon be playing tomorrow’s business game with yesterday’s tools/rules and will soon be out of business. One can also find an answer whenever people in business organisations like banks hear something like I do not know or the concerned person is on leave or any other remarks (hiding the ignorance of employees) which frustrates the customers or information seekers. It has been a general experience of people working in banks that even when they have the attitude to meet the expectations of customers, the absence or lack of required information/knowledge prevents them from behaving in a responsible way. In a majority of cases, the employees’ ego is hurt and they feel vulnerable whenever they are required to confess their ignorance directly or indirectly, thereby creating a dispiriting sight of employees not displaying customer-oriented attitude. Needless to say, all this adversely affects intangibles like brand image, credibility of business slogans and customers perception in terms of reliability and responsiveness. These in turn, affects competitive and comparative advantage of a bank. The economic value of all measures ultimately becomes visible in the form of product improvement, brand acceptance and improved bottom line. In a similar way, in banks knowledge should be treated as a factor of producing, which in its perfected form, when distributed across the organisation (all branches of a bank), enables people to serve customers/markets in an organisationally beneficial manner. Historically, knowledge management in banks is done through codified circulars, policy guidelines and other mechanism like performance review meeting, training programmes and seminar/workshops. This paradigm of knowledge management facilitates individual and collective, attitude and absorptive capacity of individual members. This is where successful business organisations of service industry have started taking scientific/structure view of knowledge management and using information technology for achieving the objectives of knowledge management.
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Punjab yet to fill 20,000 posts of teacher Although the academic session for 2004-05 has already started the government has yet to take a decision as how to fill the vacant posts. The Minister for School Education, Mr Harnam Dass Johar, has himself admitted that 20,000 posts of teachers are lying vacant in schools. He made this admission at two places. First, he disclosed this at the monthly meeting of the Grievances Redressal Committee held at Ludhiana and then while talking to mediapersons on the Independence Day at Ropar. Of the 20,000 posts, 8,000 are in primary schools and 10,000 in high and senior secondary schools. Eighteen hundred posts of elementary teachers are also vacant. However, the posts of elementary teachers are being increased to 3,000. Even though these posts are likely to be filled on a contract basis, the process in the government is much longer and laborious as compared to private schools. In private schools, the local managing committee or the principal himself/herself is competent to fill posts in their institutions and they are not by and large answerable to anyone. However, this is not so in the government. Even for recruitment on a contract basis, a number of committees at various levels are to be constituted and when there are so many posts, approaches are likely to be made to political bosses. According to Mr Johar, the government wants to improve the standard of education and, hence, the presence of teachers in schools would be made certain. He has said the first priority would be to post teachers in those schools which are sans teachers. Crores of rupees provided by the Central Government for Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan during the past few years had lapsed due to the failure of the state government to release its share of money. However, now the government will ensure that these funds do not lapse and are utilised in time, says the minister. The government has also withdrawn the incentive being given to teachers who improved their qualifications during service. A notification to this effect has been issued. Hence, in future no extra benefit, like advance increment, will be given in such a situation. This will naturally discourage government teachers from improving their educational qualifications. The number of schools has increased from 18998 in 2000 to 19488 in 2001 and further to 19864 in 2002. Of these, 17240 (86.79 per cent) are located in rural areas. During 2002, on an average, one primary school served a radius of 1.1 km in rural areas as compared to 0.7 km in urban areas. Similarly, one middle school served a radius of 2.6 km in rural areas against 1.5 km in urban areas. In the case of secondary education, one school served a radius of 2.3 km in rural areas while it was 0.8 km in urban areas. The enrolment of students was 39.48 lakh in 2000. It marginally declined to 39.22 lakh in 2001 and further declined to 36.87 lakh in 2002. A steep decline of 2.35 lakh students in government schools speaks volumes of the state of affairs in school education. It is admitted by the government that this is, perhaps, due to the mushrooming of so-called public schools in the unorganised sector which attracts a sizeable number of students of the vicinity. Out of the total enrolment in schools, girls accounted for 47.11 per cent in 2002 as compared to 46.63 per cent in 2001. Age group-wise composition of girl students enrolled for 2002 was 47.88 per cent in 6-11 years, 46.43 per cent in 11-14 years and 46.54 per cent in 14-18 years. Teachers, whose spouses live in urban areas, usually try to get their postings either in the same town or near to the villages from where they can daily go and come back. In such a situation pulls and pressures work and political bosses do succumb to such pressures. This normally results in shortage of staff in remote rural area schools. Many a time, transfers are done with postings and often many teachers working at one place draw their salary from different schools. All these anomalies need to be curbed so that the people get confidence to put their wards in government schools.
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The education scene at the school level in Punjab does not inspire much confidence as a large number of vacancies in government schools are lying vacant.