Boris Mugambe, a final year student pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Organizational psychology, a course that supports the Human Resource department through research to design, execute and interpret psychological theories and principles to organizations and individuals towards addressing human and organizational problems in the context of organized work has used the knowledge acquired from the earlier mentioned course to publish a book entitled “Telecommuting”.
“The major aim of this book is to strongly advocate for a formal, structured space where corporate companies, Organizations, government institutions can permanently adopt telecommuting as an option not an alternative as the world battles with the pandemic.” Mugambe said.
He also adds that the book seeks to prepare workplaces for future uncertainties as well as the dynamism in the future generation that need to maximumly strike the work/life balance for example; if an employee is able to work from home, support them in that line, hire them, monitor and assess their results not whether they have reported.
Mugambe was inspired by the famous quote by Steve Jobs, “if you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution”. This was after the world was hit by the global pandemic which caught almost everyone off-guard but mostly the developing countries that were already battling with other serious challenges within their economies, health, education, infrastructure and ICT sectors.
This prompted him to keenly observe how different private and public institutions, companies and organizations struggled to cope up with the challenges that were being paused by the pandemic especially the need to continue offering products and services but this time away from the offices as a measure to minimize the numbers and enable social distancing which forced many organizations to close business, scrap off some services and others laid off their staff.
As a student of Organizational psychology, Mugambe acknowledged how a few organizations and companies embraced the need to allow their staff continue with working from home , however, he wasn’t satisfied with how the move was being handled since he realized employees were not being empowered through trainings on how to handle the new shift, inadequate facilitation, low support, management and evaluation of these teleworkers among others.
These observations inspired him to make research that enabled him to put together this book that has all the relevant and basic information fit for the students, employees, managers and CEOs aiming at solving not only the current challenges within the Human Resource field due to Covid-19 but also prepare for the work demands of the future generation as well as other global uncertainties.
Mugambe plans to launch a campaign aiming at encouraging all the relevant stakeholders to adopt and accommodate Telework permanently within their structures even when the battle against Covid-19 is won as a move to mitigate air pollution due to the decrease in the carbon emissions by cars, minimize on the congestion rates and support proper urban planning, reduce road accidents that happen during the morning and evening rush hours as people move to and from work, also increase on the cost of savings on road repairs due to the reduced number of road users and lastly enable people with disabilities and pregnant women to continue working from their convenient places without commuting to workplaces.
He hopes to reach out to different institutions like KCCA, UNRA, Makerere University, Uganda Traffic police and other civil society organizations which he feels will buy into his proposal and support his dream of becoming a global researcher and policy analyst with in the Human Resource discipline.
Boris is currently being hired to offer capacity building trainings on how to handle the Teleworking arrangement among employees by some companies. You too may contact him for a copy of this book at only 20,000 via;
mugambeboris@gmail.com
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