Problems with Leading

Leadership is something what leader does he influences other people to work according to his style to achieve organizational goals. There is very strong sense of leadership in PHA but the leadership comes from the top. The directors only have the power to influence some minor actions of the employees. The fundamental leading setup comes from Shahbaz Sharif towards the mallis through director general and further directors.

There is a very strong sense of belief in PHA employees the leadership style is neither autocratic nor democratic its somewhere in the middle. Autocratic in a way that when decisions are passed from top to bottom they are to be completed within a time frame, democratic the employees at PHA “lower staff they have trade unions” they sometimes make the autocratic leader. Listen to their thoughts such as increase in salaries etc. However a definition of autocratic leader is he doesn’t listen he just conveys what is to be done. So leadership is moreover mixed in PHA. So high productivity as in its duties are sometimes perfectly fulfilled sometimes not perfectly. The directors in PHA look for work not towards the benefit of its employees malliss. There is no employee welfare whatsoever for the lower staff which includes mallis and supervisors.

The leaders at PHA don’t give punishments but they give huge rewards to its employees such as 40 lakh rupees were given when PHA landscaped parks at Lahore airport. The director general held a cricket match for the supervisors where prizes were given. This was truly for motivation. According to one of the director” this department is one of the best departments of Punjab government which performs according to what directions are given. We asked do they complete their work on time. “He replied “Sometimes Yes “But most of the times we need extensions in order to complete work. He also told that projects were dealt with in such a way “ that given time frame was less “ but the time of completing the project effectively and efficiently was more. This lead to big blunders sometimes resource wastage etc.

As far as the control of leader is considered it’s extremely weak there are no warnings given. One of the director told “Main inhain muataal nahy kar sakta “ wazir e alla ko kaam pasand na aye …ya kaheen say pata chal gaye “ to seedha moataal kar detay hain.chahay who kitna he experienced banda ho”

There is a strong sense of disbelief in PHA everyone is scared “they want to give the chief minister perfect work” otherwise they face misfortune of layoff.

Organizational culture has truly become “being scared” if there is a meeting going on with chief minister there is a strong culture sir “we will do it” even if it not achievable. One of the directors mentioned.

So we deduce it’s a whole jumbled organization with no clear vision but just stringent goals lots of budget in form of salaries.  There is extremely low organizational control at bottom but strong autocratic leaders at top.