GuySuCo’s musical chairs at the helm

Jul 08, 2010 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
The news of yet another member of GuySuCo’s top brass leaving the company whether by resignation for “personal reasons” (as is publicly stated in the case of Errol Hanoman) or by removal must be a matter of great concern for all Guyanese due to the tremendous importance of Sugar as a contributor of foreign exchange and a large employer. The sudden resignation of Mr. Hanoman for most discerning readers smells “fishy” to say the least.
However I would like to make the following points:
1) Most organisations experiencing a high rate of turnover at the upper echelons will suffer from low morale among its employees at all levels. This will adversely affect production and productivity inevitably.
2) In the past few years we have had the removal of former Chairman Mr. Ronald Alli and the resignation of Marketing Director Ms. Nisa Surujbally and a host of other senior managers for a host of reasons ranging from poor performance to job satisfaction etc.
This high rate of attrition must have an adverse effect on the corporation in every regard as it takes time for new personnel to settle into the job and assert themselves.
3) Clearly the organisation is totally under the control of the political bosses with Messrs Robert Persaud, Gopaul and Ramotar intricately involved in the day to day operation of the corporation and without a doubt our “most hands on President”.
No professionally oriented and independently minded person will be able to perform in an optimal manner when most likely he/she spends half of the day taking political directions and the other half of the day worrying whose instructions to take or whose bidding is to be done. In other words only a “yes” man will survive and thrive in this particular job. When you add into this cocktail the special relationship that GAWU has with the governing party it makes the CEO’s job near impossible.
It is unfortunate that Mr. Hanoman could only serve for a short while as the corporation does not benefit from the continuity of some policies, strategies and management style he would have adapted, instead the new CEO may be tempted to change course to impress his political masters that the previous man did not know what he was doing.
In closing I would like to make two recommendations Mr. Editor:
1) While recognising the need for the governing party to have representation on the Board, it must allow the corporation to be professionally managed with the best people at the helm and not only those who would be yes men. Set overall policy and let the CEO manage to meet the production, revenue and profitability targets etc.
2) I believe the time is ripe for an independent audit of GuySuCo definitely by a firm based outside of Guyana (for obvious reasons) to look into the poor performance of the corporation especially over the last five years and to look into the reason for the high rate of turnover/attrition at the upper levels and to study on and to pronounce specifically on the effect on performance as a consequence of the heavy hand of the governing masters.
R. Seepersaud

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