time to stop excuses for lateness by hari bedi
there are some people in every office who are often late for work. how should a manager deal with the problem if his employees come from a variety of cultures, each with a different concept of time? should he be patient or should he take action?experts tell us that westerners and Asians approach time differently. Asians try to avoid being slaves to time. Westerners live with tight schedules and deadlines,
it might seem that a manager may have to be more tolerant about punctuality with some cultural groups than other.
it might be OK to be consistently late because of a traffic jam or a parking problem in Asia, while in the West a person who used such excuses would be considered unreliable.
generally, only a small number of employees are frequently late. a manager should try to break their bad habits by helping and advising them.