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Enforcement Of Punctuality In A Democratic Way In Public Places

Enforcing Punctuality in office Democratic way or Autocratic way

Several managers worldwide believe that enforcing punctuality would enhance the productivity of the organization. With that perception several managers rush to enforce the same without even giving a thought on whether actually it is increasing productivity or efficiency of the organization.

Punctuality means employees adhering to the fixed deadline. That’s it. Managers expect their employees to be strictly to adhere to the time so that they are available whenever they are called upon. Yes when the organization is loaded with work there would be a necessity for the managers to review the progress of work; and hence there would be a strict requirement of punctuality. Their punctuality would compound the benefits and it is absolutely true. But what happens when the organization is not loaded with work? and what happens when managers try to enforce punctuality in an organization which possess less work or in organizations which are imploding under internal contradictions?

Here the enforcement backfires. But how? Take the case of an organization where the work is diminishing and employees are demotivated. Let it be assumed that the organization doing work other than it’s mandated work. Let us assume that there is hardly any interaction between managers and it’s employees. What would happen in such a scenario? Would an autocratic enforcement of punctuality result in enhancement of productivity or efficiency? Or what is the solution for this? Before discussing solutions let us understand the meaning of what an autocratic enforcement of punctuality mean. Prima facie the word autocratic is derived from the word ‘autocrat’ which mean “a despot ” or “tyrannical” or “absolute” etc. In all the definitions for autocrat the common thing is that there is no space for individual opinion or no respect for individuals. But what happens when such autocratic style is used for enforcement of punctuality in organizations which are imploding with issues more serious than punctuality. It just suffocates more. The employees who may be demotivated would find life very difficult in such an atmosphere. Though employees as obedience for the fixed time deadline would adhere but their overall output for the day diminishes. This naturally decreases the efficiency of an organization contrary to the general opinion of managers who think punctuality improves organizational efficiency.

Modern administration particularly the domain of public administration is completely different with that followed in 1950s and 60s. Today the administration if more of development oriented or more precisely people friendly. In such a scenario it is unimaginable to assume the enforcement of punctuality through autocracy. Because that would result in the mass exodus of employees themselves which again hinder the development approach. Hence a more people friendly approach or employee friendly approach should be employed to enforce the office timings. What that means in the above context is if the problems of an organization is different from that of punctuality then those problems need to be sorted out first. Ex: If an employee is not getting his monthly salary on the first day the problem has to be sorted out first before asking or preaching him of punctuality. Similarly if an employee is waiting for his promotion to next higher grade mainly due to the administrative problems the promotion problem has to be sorted out and similarly with infrastructure. If an organization has less work then the first priority is to get the work and make employees engaged with work. Getting work should be commensurate with the capability of employees here again any underestimation of employees would lead to unrest. Once the organization is filled with work orders the adherence to office timings by employees take place without autocracy. And this is what I call a democratic way of enforcement of punctuality.Once employees are busy with work orders the organizational efficiency increases and now managers can ensure the punctuality because of the fullfilment of the requirement of its workforce.

Many times organizations fail in spite of adopting standard management tools just because of neglect in such a small aspect called punctuality. If sufficient thoughts are given to such small aspects then there is a resurgence of a dying organization.

About the writer:  I am working in Government of India as water engineer.

Electrostatic Precipitators For Air Cleaning

Canadian Air Systems Co. is a designer and manufacturer of industrial dust collection systems. Dust collecting equipment is available in numerous designs utilizing a number of principles and featuring wide variation in effectiveness initial cost operating and maintenance expense space arrangements and material of construction.

Factors influencing dust collection equipment selection include:

* Concentration and particle size of contaminant.

In most dust conveying systems usual dust range from 0.1 to 100 micron a rather wide range of particle sizes.

* Degree of collection required.

Evaluation will consider the need for high efficiency high cost equipment such as electrostatic precipirators; high efficiency moderate cost equipment such as fabric or wet collector units; and the lower cost primary units such as the dry centrifugal group. Degree of dust collection required can depend on plant location; compariosn of quantities of material released to atmoshere with different type of dust collectors; nature of contaminant its salvage value or its potential as a health hazard public nuissance or ability to damage property and the requirements of the local or state air pollution regulations.

* Characteristics of air or gas stream.

High temperature gas streams exceeding 180 F will prevent the use of standard cotton media in fabric collectors; presence of steam or condensation of water vapor will cause packling and plugging of air or dust packages in fabric and dry centrifugal collectors. Chemical composition can attack fabric or metal in dry collectors and cause extremely corrosive conditions when mixed with water in wet type collectors.

* Characteristics of contaminant.

Chemical composition can cause attack on dust collector elements or corrosion in wet type dust collectors. Sticky materials like metallic buffing dust impregnated with buffing compounds can adhere to collector elements plugging dust collector passages. Linty materials such as dust from textile opener picker and napper will adhere to certain types of collector surfaces or elements. Abrasiveness of many materials in moderate to heavy concentrations such as dust from sand blasting will cause rapid wear particularly on dry type centrifugal collectors. Particles size and shape will rule out certain collector designs. The parashute shape of particles such as “bees wings” from grain will “float” through centrifugal collectors due to their velocity of fall being slower than much smaller spherical particles of the same specific gravity. Combustible nature of many finely divided materials will influence selection of explosion proof dust collectors for such products.

* Methods of disposal.

Methods of removal and disposal of collected materials will vary with the material plant process quantity involved and the collector design. Dry collectors can be unloaded continuously or in batches through dump gates trickle valves and rotary locks to conveyors or containers. Wet collectors can be arranged for batch removal or continual ejection of dewatered material by flight conveyors or draining as a slurry. Material characteristics can influence other problems such as packing and bridging of dry materials in dust hoppers floating of slurry forming characteristics in wet collectors etc.

One of the most efficient type of dust collectors is Electrostatic Precipitator.

The principle of dust collection relies on the ability to impart a negative charge to particles in the gas stream causing them to move and adhere to the grounded or positively charged collector plates. Most precipitators are made for horizontal air flow with velocities 100 to 600 fpm. The collecting plates or electrodes are parallel elements usually on 9inch centers and constructed in various ways including corrugated or perforated plates for rod curtains. The electrode rods are centered between the collector plates. Volatge difference between electrode and plate is 60000 to 75000 volts in most designs. Collector plates of cylindrical shapes surrounding the electrode tod are provided where water is used to wash off collected material and where the gas stream is under high pressure or vacuum.

Removal of the collected material is obtained by rapping or vibrating the elements either continuously or at predetermined intervals. Vibration or unloading usually takes place without stopping air flow through the cleaning cycle.

Pressure drop is low. Collection efficiency is high and nearly uniform regardless of particle size including submicron particles. Space is relatively large and cost is high where small gas volumed below 50000 CFM are involved due to the cost of high voltage electrical equipment. Efficiency is improved with increased humidity of the air stream as a change takes palce in the dielectric properties of the dust. Heavy concentrations on the other hand cause a reduction in collection as the space chatge on numerous particles blankets the corona effect from the electrode.

Electrostatic precipitators have been extensively used in high temperature gas cleaning from equipment such as blast furnaces open heart furnaces and central station pulverized fuel boilers. The chemical industry has many applications including sulfuric acids plants carbon black cement kilns and soda sh from paper mill black liquor furnaces. As voltage setting is close to the sparkover potential application is limited to materials that are not explosive or combustible in nature unless the carrier gas stream is an inert gas.

For additional information please refer to http://www.nisco.com/dustcollection/Index.html.

Oleg Tchetchel Ph.D
Process Engineer
Canadian Air Systems
http://www.nisco.com
http://www.nisco.com/fumeextractor/Index.html

About the writer:  Chemical Physics Engineer

Education Is The Key For Success In Internet Marketing

More and more people are considering the World Wide Web as a great opportunity to offer their products and services to a new bigger market or even as a chance to create entirely new businesses online.

Even if the perspective to reach millions of potential customers is surely exciting the truth is that internet marketing is more difficult than it may seems and if you don’t have a sufficient experience you will usually waste a lot of time and resources doing things that don’t produce the results you expect.

For this reason seeking advice from competent internet marketing experts is essential if you want to succeed online.

Hiring a consultant can be very expensive but fortunately this is not the only possibility.

In fact you can utilize one of the many internet marketing informational products like books manuals or ebooks that are available online.

There are complete courses that deal with every possible aspect of the entire process of building managing and promoting your business online.

Other products concern very specific topics like how to write effective advertisements or sales letters or how to promote your site on search engines.

You can usually choose among a great variety of media formats: printed manuals downloadable ebooks that allow you to use the product immediately CDROMs or even videos and audio tapes if reading a big manual is not something for you.

The only risk is to be confused by so many possible choices. So how can you determine the product more suited to your needs?

When I need to decide about the purchase of an informational product the first thing I do is reading each and every page of the author’s site.

You may think that the informations on a site designed to sell a product are by definition not objective.

But you can still find a lot of useful elements that will help you with your decision.

The following are the most important for me.

1 How is the product presented?

Reputable authors will never tell you that you will be able to make a lot of money without work simply by reading their ebook or manual.

They will warn you that personal efforts are always needed to succeed online and every concept you learn must be applied to your particular situation.

Disappointment is the only thing you will earn from an informational product that is presented like a ‘magic recipe’ to make money fast and without efforts.

2 How many details the author gives about him/herself especially with regard to past business experiences?

You want to be sure that you are about to spend your money to learn proven techniques successfully tested on real businesses not some vague theory.

3 Does the site contain customers testimonials? Do they sound genuine?

A testimonial should be always followed by a full name a website or email address so that it can be verified.

4 What kind of guarantee is offered should you dislike the product once you have purchased it?

Ideally every good informational product should be covered by a full money back guarantee as it’s always the best protection for your investment.

If you pay attention you will find many other elements that will tell you a lot about the author and the product he/she sells.

Learning how to market online is an ongoing process. Even if your personal work is always needed with ebooks manuals courses you can learn from successful marketers experiences concentrate your efforts on strategies that worked for them and consequently avoid mistakes and save time and resources.

You are welcome to use OnlineMarketingInfobooks as a starting point of your quest for your ideal internet marketing informational product.

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Mike Paolieri is webmaster and coowner of OnlineMarketingInfobooks a comprehensive directory of internet marketing eBooks manuals articles and other informative resources.
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