Response to Avisha Sapra’s post: Making a Difference
Reading your blog and having a similar background, I can understand what could be the problems you faced. It is a bitter truth of Indian dentistry that it still lacks in technology might be due to the following reason:
- Lesser availability of resources.
- India being a developing country left most of the population left in a state of poverty which somehow prevents them from getting high-cost dental treatments. Dentists have to bind their hands to provide costly materials in their treatment plans. Also, affects their service towards their patients.
- An absence of dental insurance in almost every regions of India.
Taking organizational structure into account, missing unity might be due to the presence of more competition and less cooperation. In my belief, there are a large number of dentists produced every year in India, but less number of government and private jobs made them adopt a nature of competitiveness. As mentioned by Schreiner, E. “Cooperation is not always an easy thing to achieve in the workplace, but it is worth the effort because it leads to a more harmonious and productive operation.”
I believe that this is not an individual’s problem of facing this type of organizational structure. Instead, it should be solved on the government level to put on some efforts and think strategically to ride an extra mile. As told by HUghes et al. (2014) “strategic work operates between individuals and groups and crosses functional lines, influence skills become even more important” (p. 124).
References:
Hughes, R. L., Beatty, Collarelli-Beatty, K., & Dinwoodie, D. L. (2014). Becoming a strategic leader: Your role in your organization’s enduring success. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Schreiner, E. Importance of Cooperation in the workplace. Retrieved from: https://woman.thenest.com/importance-cooperation-workplace-14647.html