Dear Mr PS Dhingra and Ramesh,
Mr Dhingra, you have written that "If the employee is performing well, a question arises, why would you like to interfere in the regime of the team leader?"
Ramesh, you have written that "In the first place why employees need to be micro managed?"
In my earlier posts, I have raised the productivity of the team member as well as of the entire team. We are yet to get reply on that. For a while, let us imagine that Team Member's performance is "Very Good" or above. Nevertheless, what matters is other's performance as well. He could be disturbing others. Secondly, if every employee starts exhibiting his/her natural human trait at the workplace then then entire company culture will go haywire. If for maintaining a culture of discipline if HR will not intervene then who else will intervene? Company is nothing but group of people coming together and working for some cause. To work together, this group must adhere to certain rules and regulations and some member's basic human trait cannot be allowed to override the rules. If we allow to override, then company will crumble in no time!
Employees are paid for spending certain hours at the workplace. Therefore, this time belongs to the company and not to the employees. Why that employee in question felt appropriate in passing his time in gossiping but not volunteering for the extra work?
Secondly, it is duty of HR to inform TL what is happening in his absence. What is wrong if HR intervenes for the loss of company's time? Good or bad, HR must keep close watch on the company affairs.
I know few IT companies wherein the entire work is delegated to the junior-most members and TL or Project Leaders are spending time in share market or real estate market. Juniors work well past midnight but cannot complain against their superiors for the fear of loss of their job. Since it is a internal matter of the team, HR does not intervene. Many times HR is blissfully unaware of what's happening. This has been going on for the years or decades together. Do you accept this serious work imbalance caused out of impersonal attitude of HR?
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar