Monday blues hit hard if your time isn't yours

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Is it the lack of power to choose how we want to spend our time that causes us to fear Mondays? (Photo: Istock) Summary Culture Culture is an important driving force for employees’ behavior and motivation for no own debt; Monday is the most despised day worldwide. The gloom of Monday fear begins to kick from the late evening hours of Sunday itself; This is the terror. Why do you think this is the case? I believe it is the lack of power to choose how we want to spend our time fearing us on Mondays. Over the weekend, we usually have more control over what we do … You have a great deal of time in deciding what you want to do. We miss this control over the time we spend in the office. From the entry, when you approach your attendance, until you leave the office, which may vary depending on how the day goes, this lack of control over your time makes us uncomfortable. We are nothing but the time we have. Since we spend most of our weekday in the office, we feel that we are wasting our life force with control in someone else’s hands. In a high context and collective culture such as India, it takes an even ugly turn. In our culture, we are expected to respect the manager in such a way that even if we have no significant work, we feel ashamed to return when they are in the office. Hierarchy is an important driving force for our behavior. Indian managers have much more control over the time of their employee than in the West. As many of us complain, in India, … Punch-out depends on the boss. Hierarchy forms how we approach deadlines, and our attitude towards time. People who postpone your comfort for the larger collective property, postponing and respecting elders are cultural values that are drawn and respected in all of us. At work, this respect for authority for our dance translates to the boss’s tune. We try to use their expectations, rarely negotiate the timelines they set and change our work day priorities at any request of them. The obligation to meet the demands of management keeps us on our toes, and we see that our work day routine is often disrupted to keep up with the closure of these claims. Take a look at the full image of the time energy tools by apexhit Khare, Westland, 276 pages, £ 599 Fear of consequences for failing to meet these claims also runs deep. Since managers have significant control over career courses, it is pleasant and to keep them happy, a natural desire for all who want to grow. The manager has the cards of how much money we earn and the kind of lifestyle we have, so we feel that we cannot be bold and assertive. The long and short of it is that we as employees, especially at junior levels, have minimal control over our time during the work day and depend a lot on the company’s culture and the manager we work for. Excerpt with permission from Westland. Catch all the business news, market news, news reports and latest news updates on Live Mint. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More Topics #Features Read Next Story