I am looking for a topic to spill but find nothing. Out of sudden I am thinking of current my office. It is a small office, with the manpower of more or less forty five staffs, 50 percent local and the remaining balance is expatriates from Middle East to the British citizenship and United States
Being a small office, it is supposed to be easy to be managed, but this is not as simple as you look at it. The shareholders are the central banks of 15 Islamic countries, and of course we are obliged to them for so many reasons. But again, the institution was formed under its own Act, which supposed to give them the immunity of any legal action or conduct, still the differences between the central banks cultures and ours gives a wide spread between both organization. It is sometimes difficult for us to adapt the cultures of the regulators being central banks as ours are similar to the commercial or investment. The core business is differ as targeted market is niche to the members only, thus restricted the organization to penetrate its own market, not even in the introductory stage. That is the organisation itself.
We move to the core enablers of the organization. Coming from all around the world, the cultures are mixed between Asian, Middle East as well as the European. The differences between us supposed to create another multi cultural in the organization. It is a unique thing that we are supposed to be proud of. Unfortunately, the diversity between us also creates paranormal office cultures which sometimes create havoc between us. The miscommunication makes the action sometimes misinterpreted. Language dysfunctional also contributes to the problem.
Again, among them, the cultures create disparity between each department. People are coming from various backgrounds with different mission and vision. Some of them really work hard for the organization but others are having hidden agenda. We might hear of “taici” cultures before in other company, but here, we still have the same cultures. Not to mention of having bad intention to other people, though they are more superior the others, jealousy and other bad things. We even have very proactive office politics here, not to forget a politician candidate that keeps her campaign every day to her respective area without fail. We also have the most efficient high speed internet coverage that able to spread news in seconds. But again, of what they coming from, of what their responsibility are, they are answerable to the same shareholders, the central banks of the 15 countries. I just hope that things would get better someday, with all the negative things gone for good. This is my pray, and hope it will be, God-willingly.
