Each and every job is associated with some designation. Each designation will have following components:

• Roles & Responsibilities

• Power

When we enter a company as a fresher, we do not worry about power, we just try to do whatever work is assigned to us. We will be busy all the time in doing our work. Initial days of work, one will not be familiar with the work he is doing and he will be busy in completing the given work and will be interested to learn something new from the job.

When we change the company or when we get promotion, we get a new designation, power will be increased. Here we learn faster about the usage of power rather than just identifying the Roles and Responsibilities for that designation. Majority of the people in the job market arena, misuse their power. They show all their power to their teammates, even when they are wrong OR they will show their power to people those who have less power.

Instead, we need to try to understand what this new designation all about and whether this designation exists in the market or not. Most companies offer designations based on their need. Sometimes, Roles and Responsibilities of the designation will be different compared to other companies. Here, the best option could be checking both (designation and Roles & Responsibility) for better understanding.

Each time we get a new designation, it is definitely a new task; unless and until you get a new designation with most of the work similar to your earlier work. After understanding about this new designation, we need to try to match up with the required skills, since most of the time you will not have the required skills, so you have to do extra study and extra analysis and come to that level. If you do not match up with knowledge for that particular designation, then you will end up misusing your Power and you will do politics.

When people are using their power without any reason or when they were doing politics, you could think one of the following options:

• That person doesn't have the knowledge to do his/her task as demanded by the designation

• That person is acting without patience

• That person doesn’t know and did some mistake unknowingly

Most of the time, it is the result of less Knowledge. When they do mistakes, they will blame the weaker people in the team and get away from that problem. They will not accept that they have made a mistake. They cannot be corrected until they admit that they have made a mistake. But, again you also need to think that they do have family, etc... And they will be surviving in this way. If you cannot work with your manager, you can go on to change your team; or report to someone and have your differences sorted out or think of changing the job itself.

Some companies don't even have a properly defined Designation. In this way, you will be working just like that without understanding the actual Roles & Responsibilities. Normally, companies should plan what they want to build, and then build all the designations which achieve the overall target. If there is any loophole in defining properly all these, it will create confusion rather than anything better. These kinds of problem will pop-up almost all the time indirectly, which are like the hidden-like problems.

In these cases, when people enter the company, they will not know what exactly they are and they will know only the name of the designation. They learn by looking at other people of the same designation and this is a bad option. If the person, whom you report to, defines your Roles & Responsibilities vaguely, this again creates more confusion. This will also allow people to blame each other.

In most cases, as the company expands, the designations are not reviewed. i.e., the roles & responsibilities of each position is not explicitly stated. This could in the long run lead to confusion and people are not focused on what they are expected to do. This doesn't mean you can review and change the designation whenever the company wants. In the beginning itself, it should have fewer loopholes. Changing people’s designations will be more costly, since people will not be ready to rapidly change their mind set for new Roles & Responsibilities.