Savoring School Life

School has started for 10 days and I am really enjoying it. I love holidays! But being a student is one of the best thing to be. Must relish the times as a student. It's such a short period of time compared to working life and has a "critical period". Meaning, that we can only be students the first 2 decades or so of our lives. Because anything way more than that is really challenging as society and people has certain expectations for us and we need to fulfill certain roles (like a father providing for his family, a daughter giving her parents monthly allowances and a self-sufficient individual). So I really treasure the opportunity I am able to be educated and be empowered to accomplish my dreams.

I've never felt so happy studying. Mainly because I am feeling the empowerment from the knowledge I learnt to face challenges in society, with people and in life. And very importantly, I'm studying what I like - Psychology, the study of people's behavior and cognition.

2 lecture slide in econs lecture today reminded me of what I learnt in SOT. It was about how to produce growth in an economy. Here is what the slides wrote:
What should be done?
Investing in People
- There is a direct positive relationship between per capita real output and level of health (life expectancy, infant mortality)
- The relationship has been confirmed by analyzing historical data with help of advanced statistical procedures
- It is also found that level of education and per capita GDP are highly correlated.
- Education adds to stock of human capital (enhancing people's capacity to produce more), increases growth by stimulating innovation and new ideas, and creates high-level manpower essential for R&D activities.

And this is what Pst Meng shared in SOT: if you want your company to be successful, invest in people.

Well, the word is confirmed by science.
The logic is very simple, you make people happy, people will be willing to work their best for you. When companies improve the welfare and value of their employees, they generate loyalty and passion among employees to commit themselves to the company. The duty of managers and high ranking officers is really to show that the value and worth that the company adds to each employee (not just in terms of salary, but even psychological, personal and family well-being) is greater than the price they pay (time, effort, commitment, OT etc.) And the way managers can show it is really by love and passion for the employees. Meaning, not treating employees as people who they can manipulate and order around or just people who needs to get things done. But able to go down to their level to mingle with them, who remembers things about them and treat them as VIP, as if their service to the company has great relative importance. Relationship preceeds work. To what extent does the employee recognizes him/herself as part of the company depends on the extent of the relationship managers have with their workers.
Even as I share this, it has become a revelation and an inspiration to me. Bringing me new understanding to what I have learnt. But really, nothing is new under the sun. Sometimes, we just over look it in the pursuit for success - the underlying principles of success.

[* pardon if i have spelling and grammatical errors!!! hahaha]