Dear Venkatesh,
Several members have given their valuable suggestions. However, you have not even given simple acknowledgement for any post. What does this show?
For the members who have given replies: - The situation is a result of some person's disgruntlement. It has not arisen out of lack of environmental consciousness. To certain extent Mr Pundalik has touched upon this factor. Educating employees on saving paper is important but it would be misplaced solution for the situation at hand.
In OB we have studied "
Defence Mechanism". Destruction of tissue papers fall in the category of "
Acting Out" or to certain extent in "
Passive-aggressive Behaviour".
The incident could be pointer to the organisation's culture. Does Venkatesh's company has culture of ownership?
Generally behaviours of these types are exhibited by lower rung of employees. Therefore, Venkatesh can keep watch on these employees. He can keep records of the consumption of tissue paper. By chance if the consumption restores back to the normal level then he can check who was on leave on that day. This way he can zero in on the culprits. A thought had crossed my mind to suggest to install CCTV cameras in the toilets however, it is too costly solution. Generally we keep dog as pet to safeguard our house. Installation of CCTV cameras in the toilet would tantamount to keeping tiger as pet to guard the dog!
Ok...
Dinesh V Divekar