In case of our discussion on ‘Open Source Development’ we argued as to what is to be done so that the company one works for does not claim as theirs, the projects that the person pursues outside regular office work. We came to the conclusion that proper paperwork would solve the problem.
But what will happen if the person gets involved in work that might indirectly have some negative impact on the company he is currently with? And he might not be doing it intentionally. The situation may be such that nobody would have thought that such an issue could rise. So no norm would also have been documented. Thus, the employee thinks he is no way going against the companies policies. But the company thinks otherwise. This is exactly what happened in ‘Can We Learn From Our Heroes?’. The ICC was not in favour of the Indian players endorsing brands of personal choice and the players agitated by this, decided that it is better that they don’t sign the agreement for the champions trophy. They were not ready to sacrifice their ‘intellectual property and personal commercial rights’.
But here the Indian players could deny signing as they believed that they were of prime importance to the ICC and so they could negotiate with it. But what will happen if one day the ICC says enough and boycotts such teams for some fixed period of time? What will then happen to the Indian Cricket and more importantly to the so-called ‘high-profile players’? Will they still have an edge when it comes to negotiating a deal?
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Relevant questions have been raised here for which answers have been provided in various posts of the blog. As rigtly said by Prabhas, the Indian Team has cricketing legends who command tremendous authority and are the biggest crowd pullers. If the ICC, like Pinakini points out, does not include the Indian team for a fixed amount of time due to contractual issues, it is obvious that ICC's original sponsors themselves will face high disincentive in sponsoring the tournament, because the viewership by Indian subcontinent is the highest in the world. Without the soul of the cricketing world (i.e. the Indian Cricket Team & its legends like Sachin,Yuvraj,Harbhajan etc.) not playing, ICC would lose its sponsors and not be in a position to make tremendous revenues out of tournaments! In fact this is the reason why sponsors of ICC have come forward in the first place. Thus, with both parties in a position to negotiate the issue, it becomes important to come to a mutually acceptable solution and to frame better and fair employment contracts in future.
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