Sep

22

CEO beaten to death by dismissed Employees in India

Filed Under IT BPO KPO Services, India Business, Metros, Training & Education 

The Chief Executive Officer of Gradiano/Graziano was on Monday beaten to death by a group of dismissed employees inside office premises after a meeting called to resolve dispute between them and the management failed. Mr LK Chaudhury, the CEO of Gradiano in Udyog Vihar of Greater Noida, was killed when the agitating workers turned violent and beat him up, Senior Superintendent of Police (Noida) R K Chaturvedi said. - Press Trust of India

According to details from the ground, the workers started throwing stones at the management and one stone crashed the skull of the CEO, Lalit Kishore Chaudhury. Many others in the company’s management are also badly injured.

This has got to be one most shocking incidents coming from corporate India in the recent times.

If Gradiano was a BPO/KPO company, the chances are they would be employing at least graduates, and that makes this most shocking on how such people can act like a mob. It also shows how the fairly accepted ‘hire-and-fire method’ of the West can backfire in India.

While this is an an exception and a rare case, companies now need to be more careful about physical security of their staff. I shudder to think if this is the treatment received to a CEO, then what will be the case if a Manager gave a bad performance appraisal to such workers.

A bad day for Indian business. Hope the criminal workers are brought to justice, and that it serves as a warning to other people. In one shot, these 200 dismissed workers have embarrassed the Indian business/professional community and put an unwanted question mark on the ethics of Indian employees. Such an incident must not repeat.

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