Q. You are a young, aspiring and sincere employee in a Government office working as an assistant to the director of your department. Since you have joined recently, you need to learn and progress. Luckily your superior is very kind and ready to train you for your job. He is a very intelligent and well-informed person having knowledge of various departments. In short, you respect your boss and are looking forward to learning a lot from him.
Since you have good tuning with the boss, he started depending on you. One day due to ill health he invited you to his place to finish some urgent work.
You reached his house and before you could ring the bell you heard shouting noises. You waited for a while. After entering the house the boss greeted you and explained the work. But you were constantly disturbed by the crying of a woman. At last, you inquired with the boss but his answer did not satisfy you.
Next day, you were compelled to inquire further in the office and found out that his behaviour is very bad at home with his wife. He also beats up his wife. His wife is not well educated and is a simple woman in comparison to her husband. You see that though your boss is a nice person in the office, he is engaged in domestic violence at home.
In such a situation, you are left with the following options. Analyse each option with its consequences.
a) Just ignore thinking about it because it is their personal matter.
b) Repost the case to the appropriate authority.
c) Your own innovative approach towards the situation.
Q. You are a young, aspiring and sincere employee in a Government office working as an assistant to the director of your department. Since you have joined recently, you need to learn and progress. Luckily your superior is very kind and ready to train you for your job. He is a very intelligent and well-informed person having knowledge of various departments. In short, you respect your boss and are looking forward to learning a lot from him.
Since you have good tuning with the boss, he started depending on you. One day due to ill health he invited you to his place to finish some urgent work.
You reached his house and before you could ring the bell you heard shouting noises. You waited for a while. After entering the house the boss greeted you and explained the work. But you were constantly disturbed by the crying of a woman. At last, you inquired with the boss but his answer did not satisfy you.
Next day, you were compelled to inquire further in the office and found out that his behaviour is very bad at home with his wife. He also beats up his wife. His wife is not well educated and is a simple woman in comparison to her husband. You see that though your boss is a nice person in the office, he is engaged in domestic violence at home.
In such a situation, you are left with the following options. Analyse each option with its consequences.
a) Just ignore thinking about it because it is their personal matter.
b) Repost the case to the appropriate authority.
c) Your own innovative approach towards the situation.
The first option has some merit. If he is beating his wife, either she or her close relatives have to complain to the police. In this case, the employee has heard a loud quarrel, and not actually seen his boss beating his wife. The subsequent crying of the lady could be the emotional fall out of her quarrel with her husband. In short, the employee has not witnessed an incident of domestic violence. Nevertheless, the episode is troubling. The boss whom he respects may be an unsavoury character at home. The employees will be mentally troubled. But it is an affair between a married couple.
The employee can report the incident to the police. But he saw no physical violence. Police will need primary evidence. He can report to the disciplinary authority in office. But again he will be unable to substantiate anything. He will also be inviting the enmity of his boss.
Directly pleading with his boss, not to ill-treat his wife will not work. An indirect way of influencing his boss could be to tell an imaginary story of a lady who suffered from domestic violence and suddenly committed suicide. He can embellish the story with how her husband landed in a police station, and how the police ill-treated and made life hell for him. He can add how the husband in the story failed to realize the risks of domestic violence and ruined his promising career. He can add that from his short experience he realized that government officers are good family men. This may set the boss thinking.
The first option has some merit. If he is beating his wife, either she or her close relatives have to complain to the police. In this case, the employee has heard a loud quarrel, and not actually seen his boss beating his wife. The subsequent crying of the lady could be the emotional fall out of her quarrel with her husband. In short, the employee has not witnessed an incident of domestic violence. Nevertheless, the episode is troubling. The boss whom he respects may be an unsavoury character at home. The employees will be mentally troubled. But it is an affair between a married couple.
The employee can report the incident to the police. But he saw no physical violence. Police will need primary evidence. He can report to the disciplinary authority in office. But again he will be unable to substantiate anything. He will also be inviting the enmity of his boss.
Directly pleading with his boss, not to ill-treat his wife will not work. An indirect way of influencing his boss could be to tell an imaginary story of a lady who suffered from domestic violence and suddenly committed suicide. He can embellish the story with how her husband landed in a police station, and how the police ill-treated and made life hell for him. He can add how the husband in the story failed to realize the risks of domestic violence and ruined his promising career. He can add that from his short experience he realized that government officers are good family men. This may set the boss thinking.
