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Coming to the topic, as per the Oxford dictionary, the definition of resource is "a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively". Fair enough, let's see what the Merriam Webster dictionary says; "a source of supply or support, an available means, a natural source of wealth or revenue".
Resource originated from a Latin word called "surgere" which means to rise, later taken in by French as "resoudre" which means rise again, recover. When we see this word from a psychological point of view, we perceive it as a matter of higher value from where we can extract some form of aid to make our living better or as the meaning suggest we can rise or recover from our present bottom state. So, simply it's a thing of extraction, not something to which we should reimburse.
When it comes to the human resource, Oxford defines it as "the personnel of a business organization, regarded as a significant asset in terms of skills and abilities". For a businessman, an economist, or a person seeing the highest asset as money, a human resource is something which has the skills to make more profits and raise the graph of income. If simply put, it's a thing with required skills, who can get more money to their accounts. Isn't it?
This is quite funny to treat a human as a resource but in this world of numbers, our mentality has become such that we only want to extract the best possible things for us and in return give nothing because it doesn't matter to our success. It's like treating your father as your ATM card and your mother as your maid. This will be illicit, inappropriate, selfish, unethical and despicable too.
This concept is completely wrong because this will neither add any distinct value to us nor to the person we took in as a resource. Many of us have the misconception that if we want to rise, the only way we could do it is by descending others. It may be correct for a short-term, but for a long-term, we need not go in that direction. We need to uplift others too, at least the people we employ or take benefits from. By doing this we will not only secure our success but of others too. It will be a collective achievement of success which will definitely have a larger picture than that of the individual one.
We Indians have always been followers of the west. The research they do or the papers they write may be fitting suitably to the west mode of the surrounding, it doesn't mean that it is a standard fit which India must adapt. But the mentality has become such that what the west publish we take it granted as the world standards, something which will fit internationally with the same accuracy in every place or surrounding. The fact claims the practice is wrong and this practice isn't something neither we were gifted with nor there was an agreement in between the East and the West, it was forced upon us during the periods of invasions, war, loot, famines, and inhumanity. And the most surprising thing is that we are still sticking to it as if it was set by God, what a joke! We don't even dare to question or do a cross-research with local inputs prevailing in our environment. There are ample amount of brains to process, but copy-cating is what we followed. Why shouldn't we or even How could we? we lack basic amenities of food and shelter so, how can there be an intellectual vivid research. Research without funding is just a stack of papers pinned to think boards or a handful of fancy presentations and videos for entertainment. The pressure is still there which is crushing us to follow it blindly. Let's see where it takes us, heaven or hell!
When it comes to the human resource, Oxford defines it as "the personnel of a business organization, regarded as a significant asset in terms of skills and abilities". For a businessman, an economist, or a person seeing the highest asset as money, a human resource is something which has the skills to make more profits and raise the graph of income. If simply put, it's a thing with required skills, who can get more money to their accounts. Isn't it?
This is quite funny to treat a human as a resource but in this world of numbers, our mentality has become such that we only want to extract the best possible things for us and in return give nothing because it doesn't matter to our success. It's like treating your father as your ATM card and your mother as your maid. This will be illicit, inappropriate, selfish, unethical and despicable too.
This concept is completely wrong because this will neither add any distinct value to us nor to the person we took in as a resource. Many of us have the misconception that if we want to rise, the only way we could do it is by descending others. It may be correct for a short-term, but for a long-term, we need not go in that direction. We need to uplift others too, at least the people we employ or take benefits from. By doing this we will not only secure our success but of others too. It will be a collective achievement of success which will definitely have a larger picture than that of the individual one.
We Indians have always been followers of the west. The research they do or the papers they write may be fitting suitably to the west mode of the surrounding, it doesn't mean that it is a standard fit which India must adapt. But the mentality has become such that what the west publish we take it granted as the world standards, something which will fit internationally with the same accuracy in every place or surrounding. The fact claims the practice is wrong and this practice isn't something neither we were gifted with nor there was an agreement in between the East and the West, it was forced upon us during the periods of invasions, war, loot, famines, and inhumanity. And the most surprising thing is that we are still sticking to it as if it was set by God, what a joke! We don't even dare to question or do a cross-research with local inputs prevailing in our environment. There are ample amount of brains to process, but copy-cating is what we followed. Why shouldn't we or even How could we? we lack basic amenities of food and shelter so, how can there be an intellectual vivid research. Research without funding is just a stack of papers pinned to think boards or a handful of fancy presentations and videos for entertainment. The pressure is still there which is crushing us to follow it blindly. Let's see where it takes us, heaven or hell!
