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People who wakeup during appraisal? HR insight from Cicada insect
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The HR must really need to do a through soul search to understand whether ‘cicadas’ are there in the corporate. Most corporate will have plenty of ‘cicadas’ and unfortunately, the corporate will be treating these ‘cicada people’ as high performers, talented group and intelligentsia.
The HR must really need to do a through soul search to understand whether ‘cicadas’ are there in the corporate. Most corporate will have plenty of ‘cicadas’ and unfortunately, the corporate will be treating these ‘cicada people’ as high performers, talented group and intelligentsia.
Unless the HR and the corporate leaders are taught about the life cycle of cicadas and what it really means to them, they cannot identify cicadas in their corporate. Cicada is an insect, indeed a noisy insect, present in many forest ecosystem. The life cycle of cicada is very interesting to learn. The eggs will first hatch out as ‘nymphs’ and the nymphs as soon as they emerge would burry inside the soil.
The ‘nymph’ usually lives under ground, eating the root sap of many plants for several years. The subterranean life of ‘nymph’ is reported to range between 4 - 17 years. After the subterranean period is over, the nymph would come out of the soil and become a winged cicada.
The winged male cicada alone produces noise, and it does to attract the female cicada. Interestingly, the female cicadas are ‘noiseless’ and ‘calm’ a very rare phenomena seen among female gender of any life form in general. The winged cicada lives only for 12 days and within this period they complete mating and egg laying.
Cicadas are most noisy during the ‘winged’ stage. In the life cycle of cicada, about 90% of its life is spent subterranean, hidden and unknown, without showing its unique ‘cicada’ characteristics. Suddenly it comes to the scene with noise, live for a short while and then disappears. Many employees in corporate do behave like cicadas.
They do nothing or will remain calm, lazy or indifferent for long period. Suddenly during appraisal or review period, they become noisy and busy doing and showing many things. During such period, they also try to be as noisy as cicadas just to show to the world that ‘business means business’ to them.
Nature has created a strong reason for cicadas to be so and hence they behave strangely. The HR in many corporate may not even know the behavioural dynamics of people in the corporate and hence these cicadas happily thrive in the organization without getting noticed.
If you identify a cicada in your corporate, do not blame them, blame yourself first. It is the corporate ecosystem that only facilitates and felicitates these cicadas to evolve and live. Correct the system, naturally the cicada people will disappear.
It is not the diagnosis of a disease, the treatment matters. When the cause lies in the corporate culture, treat the corporate and correct the culture. Mostly the single man dominant corporate are the one that suffers the worst from ‘cicada infestation’.
Every anomaly you observe in people has a message to convey about your corporate culture. Use them as an indicator, do not to punish people but understand and correct the HR culture prevailing in the corporate. That is the message the cicada conveys. Observe and learn from nature, every creation in nature has a strong management insight to teach.
Learn and learn, let the learning be your endless passion and let the nature be your immortal teacher.
By: S Ranganathan
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