Migration from Craft Management system to Modern Management System::
I am writing this blog in reference to the discussion and the learning that we had in our Class 2 with Dr. Mandi . As we already got a flavour of his practical oriented teaching style, this day was not any different.
He threw small cubes with letters written on them. Asked us what can be the maximum number of cubes one can use to make a tower. And the next challenge was same task, but the person making the tower should be blind folded with another guy guiding him. All tried to make some guesses and the highest bidder went on to take the challenge. He even risked a few bucks out of his pocket !! He kept on building the tower by placing blocks in criss-cross position while we looked at him in excitement. Here he goes.... when he just piled up 22 blocks the tower came down. :)
After that, people interested to take up the second challenge were called on stage. Three came. One of them was made blind folded other took the position as CEO and third the manager. The manager instructed the blind folded guy- here projected as the employee at lowest level of the organisational hierarchy. The tower shoot up and with some dwindling ultimately reached 23rd floor. There was cheer from all around because all expected the reverse will happen.Then we got our much awaited lessons on how productivity can be increased by moving from old craft management system- where an individual person with his skills try to manage the whole activity - to our modern management system with hierarchy where the bottom of the pyramid ie. the workers (here represented by the blind fellow) is only expected to carry on order of his manager without any personal thinking or contribution.
After that, people interested to take up the second challenge were called on stage. Three came. One of them was made blind folded other took the position as CEO and third the manager. The manager instructed the blind folded guy- here projected as the employee at lowest level of the organisational hierarchy. The tower shoot up and with some dwindling ultimately reached 23rd floor. There was cheer from all around because all expected the reverse will happen.Then we got our much awaited lessons on how productivity can be increased by moving from old craft management system- where an individual person with his skills try to manage the whole activity - to our modern management system with hierarchy where the bottom of the pyramid ie. the workers (here represented by the blind fellow) is only expected to carry on order of his manager without any personal thinking or contribution.
| Blind Folded | Person with eyes open |
| Decoding | |
| Doing | Doing |
He stressed that the decoding activity that goes on in the mind of a craft-man is prevented in modern management system where the employee only follows the instruction of the managed ie. only "Doing" and no "Decoding".
| 1 Person | > 1 Person | |
|
Ambiguous | Crystal clear |
|
Decreases | |
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Decreases | |
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Broken into smaller parts | |
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Time to perform reduces |
The result that we got in our class experiment was tallying with what we learnt. Thus division of labour and hierarchy system of management does increases the productivity.
One can also go through the below link which is very elaborate in approach:
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