This is the season 2 of the popular Indian version of the program Bigg Boss. The original program is called 'Big Brother'.
It is a fantastic experiment in human behaviour. We can keep changing the set of people, try new permutations and combinations of profiles (the famous, the not so famous, the beautiful, the not so beautiful, rich, not so rich, educated and not so educated). But the reactions are all the same.
There are many similarities between the Bigg Bosses House and a Corporate Office. We have jokingly started referring to our own office as the Bigg Bosses house.
When people are put in together in to the house, Bigg Bosses House, they are good with each other. They go out of their way to help each other. There are cameras capturing every minutes.
Just like people are good to a new joinee in an organisation. They go out of their way to be nice to a new joinee. Same is the case with Bigg Boss. You are always being watched!
With time, groupism starts. People start hanging together in groups. People start bitching about each others.
So much of it happens in a Corporate office too. There are groups and ever one wants to be with a group. You have no place if you don’t belong to a group.
Then it is time to start nominations. Initially the unsuspecting one's are asked nominated. Most of the time they don’t even know why they have been nominated.
The same thing happens in a corporate office. Completely unsuspecting people are picked up as scape goats.
It just gets murkier inside the house. People start abusing each other, plans are made to oust people from the other group. It is a war of sorts.
Well well well.....nothing different in a corporate office....
As the competition heads towards the final lap, it is a question of ones own survival. The starts parasitic behaviour. Inmates from the same group start nominating people from within the group. Friends on face, but in the confession room they nominate each other. The realisation then dawns on the participants and the viewers too, that; there are no friends out there in the house. They are only competitors. It is a competition and any form of competition has to be eliminated.
Well...well...well...Not at all different in a corporate at all....It is a question of survival and no one is a friend. And so even in the so called civil, professional and task driven environment of the fortune 500 companies of the world, we demonstrate the same behaviour as the inmates of Bigg Boss.
A fantastic, unfailing experiment in human behaviour.
