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A new, properly constituted GUYSUCO Board can be quite catalytic

Apr 26, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
While transforming GUYSUCO might require much more than a new Board of Directors, there is no doubt that a new, properly constituted Board can be quite catalytic and can provide the type of leadership that the sugar industry needs to reverse its downward dip in production and productivity.
However, recent utterances attributed to our political leaders indicate a tendency to focus on the need for the technical aspects of agriculture, engineering and finance with deafening silence about the all-important PEOPLE aspects. Ironically, a recurring justification for resuscitating the sugar industry has been the impact its failure will have on the thousands of persons employed in the industry and the many thousands more who are directly and indirectly affected.
Surely, the human side of the industry is sufficiently significant to warrant at least similar representation in the new Board as is being emphasized for the technical inputs.
Given our respective profiles, this letter risks being misunderstood as ‘self-serving’; we can only formally deny any such motivation! But as two professionals in the field of HRM in and out of the sugar industry, including periods of its heyday, we feel a sense of duty to register the need for a Board member with relevant Human Resource management insights and experience.
Having said the above however, it is difficult not to detect the uni-dimensional view that a board could ‘transform’ the industry.
Given the admitted ineffectualness of previous Boards, there is need for a more analytical evaluation of past decision-making failures, one reason for which is bound to be the indeterminate scope of authority and the real dimensions of their accountability.
This time the mandate must be pellucidly printed out – ensuring that responsibility balanced with substantive authority that cannot be peremptorily over-ruled.
Nowrang Persaud and E.B. John

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