Running an Enterprise out of Social Benefit

The age old notion of profit and non profit making industry has created an stigma in the mind that if something is for people welfare, it has to be non profit making. This jinx is to break if corporate level effort has to come out from welfare organizations.

The problems are multi pronged. Welfare organizations are presently running under adhoc management principles. For most of the financial and manpower needs they depend upon the mercy of benevolence. They have vision and dream but down the line it gets diluted and the organization traps itself in the myriad of conflicting objectives.

The world has widened its perspective in terms of political, economic and social dynamics. This has far reaching consequences on the lives and times of human beings. The rapidly changing world at times becomes difficult to sustain basic human rights. At the same time there is growing concern to address these issues from all quarters. Hence financial and human aids for welfare concerns are never less. The real challenge is always to allocate and distribute them appropriately and timely.

The whole economic aspect of running welfare missions come from leveraging the possibilities of making operations efficient. The formula of right thing at the right place in right quantity is definitely the baseline. The abstractness of this philosophy can be made concrete using past experiences over such missions and requirements of modern times. The processes of such mission should be carved into corporate structure with humane skills. We can learn a lot from many established corporate firms stretching their arms in welfare missions.

A big problem of such organizations always remained with the definition and scope of their work. It has been traditionally assumed that welfare organizations are required or operated only in the times of human calamity which are rapid and fierce in nature. But we forget that neither human misery nor the need for help is absent at any time. Only at the times of calamity these become widely noticed. So such organizations should base them over solid grounds for long term sustenance and focus human misery in all forms spread all across.

To make this world a better place to live is a responsibility of each and every of us and such efforts can rarely run just on the kind feelings of people. We need to make this mission as strong as a corporate chase and run it in the similar fashion.

Human Psychology and Social Development

Human psychology is quite a mirage. It’s such complex and unexpected that normal logical analysis fails to fathom. It’s an interesting phenomenon though. When we think about the complexities of human psychology, we forget that our minds are also somewhat captured in this complex web. So a fairly independent analysis is just not possible. But what we can definitely try is to understand major trends and norms of human interactions, especially in social organizations.

Let’s try to chalk out the history of society. The reasons and factors why it took this path are interesting outcomes of human interactions in different environments. Why had primitive humans wanted to talk to their fellow humans? This is important to understand, as this rooted an important characteristic of human i.e. social animal. Survival seems to be the sole reason why such a desire could have occurred. The survival in hostile natural environment was just not simple without cooperation. Thus could have been laid the seed for first social framework.

The society developed out of sheer need of one human on others for survival. Now that the interactions developed and got facilitated through the development of aids like language, other factors started creeping in. Many psychological factors like fear, anger, love, hatred, jealousy etc. govern our interactions with fellow humans. While for other animals, such factors are quite limited and hence their interactions do not go beyond a certain limit, for humans the development of their relationships take fantastic turns. As the size of community increases, these complexities also rise, however there is a cognitive limit to which humans can sustain their relationships. Hence the nature of relationships categorize dramatically.

As the superiority of humans started to reflect in their ability to sustain in adverse environments and their ability to rule rest of the animal kingdom, different factors started to crop up. Needless to say these were also deeply affected by their interactions with the environment. The understanding of natural phenomenon was quite nascent and hence forced them to adopt a whole different behavior. Such deep rooted was this effect that it took years even after they realized their mistakes to change their attitude. Under such complex web of factors human interactions with each other took uncharted ways to develop. The factors grew slowly and interdependencies of various relations within cognitive limits and beyond them started to show. Social development took complex shapes like village, clan, state, brotherhood, nations and many more. Even these cohesions had overlaps. After a time it became really difficult for some people to control the development of society and the society became self sustaining.

Interesting is the fact that humans created society for their sustenance and slowly society grew to engulf human independence for its sustenance. Today we are largely governed by many norms that society has devised over years. Even when we feel the redundancy of such things, we really find ourselves helpless to cut away.