Working Ethics

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

Work is an important thing in our life; or it is only the means of development of the nation. If people work, they can get food; it helps them to make their life busy; so they can progress in their life. Thus it contributes psychologically and physically to a person which helps them for their all round development and it can also be the foundation of national development.

There are different types of work that we do in our life. Mostly, the scholars have divided work into two types i.e. white colour and blue colour. Either white or blue, work is necessary which needs human resources and the work is done when human resource is active and prompt. It needs system, or commitment, or supervision to complete any kind of work on time.

Work is other than idleness. I have seen many persons are lazing quoting that “I don’t have work to do.” They argue that it is the responsibility of the government to provide job to them. It is one of the logics but they don’t think that they should create work themselves. When they can’t think that the job is in their hand, they would spend their time lazing around. It has made them weaker physically and psychologically.

The work would deal with dialectic logic which we must have the capacity to recognize what the work is. The issue that I want to raise is that we must be ethical to perform the task what we have got. I have seen the persons lazing when they have gone to field. They even spend their time doing nothing throughout the day. They have taken work as something done for others. They don’t realize that the work which they have been given is their own work rather than the boss.

They have said that their work is difficult in comparison to others. They don’t think that they have come for work. Rather they try to cheat their boss only. The consequence would be that either they would be expelled from the work, or they would lose their own dignity. However, it is praised by the society so they have got some courage to avoid work though they have known that the work is the only thing to sustain their family.

The lazy persons would compare their work with others. The persons who have taken some responsibility of the work think that they have difficult work than others. They don’t realize that the work what they have taken should be done in time. Today I saw that two of the labours who have come to work in our school stay doing nothing till half of the day pretending this or that. There was no supervisor so they stay till evening time and started doing after 4.00pm only. It is evident that they don’t take the responsibility of the work or they don’t have working ethics.

In Nepal I haven’t found that any labor is responsible to their work. The supervisor should threaten them or they shouldn’t have paid or they should have been threatened. Unless there is no fear, they don’t work well. Neither would they spend the day without work; rather they have the logic that they take rest.

When there is work we know the meaning of rest but they have been taking rest throughout the day. So the question comes that working ethics in our culture is declining. We don’t value the work rather think that the work is sufficient. We have promoted cheating culture instead of being busy. Those who can cheat are much more prestigious than those who have engaged in work.

 The person would like to stay without eating rather than working diligently. The context should have been changed as soon as possible. For that we need to make the people aware and make them realize the importance of work. We should provide education to them first. Unless they don’t have education, they can’t change their mind; unless they don’t change their mind they don’t learn the ethics or the importance of work. If we can implant such knowledge to the people, then only we can develop our county. Certainly we need ethical or integral people for the development of the nation.