Time Past, Time Present, Time Future: The Case of India Post

Elisabeth Wilson

Abstract

This paper explores competing views of the organisational future within India Post, and the potential of its employees to meet that future, drawing on an organisational case study. Two frameworks of time are used to illuminate the respective discussions: linear or non-linear time; and time orientation to the past, present or future. There were four principal findings. First, there was contradictory evidence about attitudes towards time indicated in the literature. Second, time was intimately involved with recruitment and promotion processes, interacting with ethnicity and gender. Third, time orientation was the most significant framework illuminating differing views about optimum future strategy. Fourth, different views demonstrated the plurivocality of the organisation.

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