When the employer blocks your studies
Jul 11, 2010
GOING back for further studies while working is not always an easy prospect. Apart from financial hardships, some people claim that their bosses cannot allow them to go for further studies if they inform them.
By Stella Nassuna
GOING back for further studies while working is not always an easy prospect. Apart from financial hardships, some people claim that their bosses cannot allow them to go for further studies if they inform them.
However, working at a dead-end job is also not a fancy dream. Returning to school or not is a decision many workers are struggling with.
Instead of suffering under unrewarding jobs, many are back in schools without the knowledge of their bosses. This raises a question of whether one should tell their boss that they are going for further studies or not.
Daniel Kasibante, a graphic designer, is doing a post-graduate course without the knowledge of his boss. He says the boss may sabotage his projects if she knows.
“She has a lot of trust in me and cannot let me go. If I tell her, she will think I am preparing to leave the company for a better job,†he said.
Eduard Mutabazi, a human resource consultant at Uganda Management Institute, cautions that most companies today are trying to minimise expenditure by reducing on the number of employees. Therefore, they don’t like workers to study during the working hours as it affects their output.
However, if an organisation has a policy on training staff, this can ease one’s worries about further training. “It means that the bosses must know about it so that they approved and sponsor your course,†he says.
He also cautions that if training is to take a lot of time, you have to be careful on how you go about it.
However, there are some managers who do not want their juniors to go back for further studies.
“Some managers look at it as a threat to their job security,†he observes. After knowing that you are studying, such a jealous supervisor will keep assigning you with a lot of work so that you fail to get time for school.
“Others will intentionally give you up country assignments when it is examination time,†Julius Kateega, a human resource consultant at Competitive Choices, says.
GOING back for further studies while working is not always an easy prospect. Apart from financial hardships, some people claim that their bosses cannot allow them to go for further studies if they inform them.
However, working at a dead-end job is also not a fancy dream. Returning to school or not is a decision many workers are struggling with.
Instead of suffering under unrewarding jobs, many are back in schools without the knowledge of their bosses. This raises a question of whether one should tell their boss that they are going for further studies or not.
Daniel Kasibante, a graphic designer, is doing a post-graduate course without the knowledge of his boss. He says the boss may sabotage his projects if she knows.
“She has a lot of trust in me and cannot let me go. If I tell her, she will think I am preparing to leave the company for a better job,†he said.
Eduard Mutabazi, a human resource consultant at Uganda Management Institute, cautions that most companies today are trying to minimise expenditure by reducing on the number of employees. Therefore, they don’t like workers to study during the working hours as it affects their output.
However, if an organisation has a policy on training staff, this can ease one’s worries about further training. “It means that the bosses must know about it so that they approved and sponsor your course,†he says.
He also cautions that if training is to take a lot of time, you have to be careful on how you go about it.
However, there are some managers who do not want their juniors to go back for further studies.
“Some managers look at it as a threat to their job security,†he observes. After knowing that you are studying, such a jealous supervisor will keep assigning you with a lot of work so that you fail to get time for school.
“Others will intentionally give you up country assignments when it is examination time,†Julius Kateega, a human resource consultant at Competitive Choices, says.