So there was another interesting class where the Sir Mandi
taught how the modern management differs from craft management.
Sir brought some set of small cubes with him. He asked us
with how many cubes a person can build a tower with maximum height. A friend
from our class challenged that he could build a tower with 18 cubes, but
ultimately he ended with using 22 cubes. Then Sir kept a challenge before us
saying that now three people can be involved in building the tower but with
some caveats, the person who is going to build the blocks should be blindfolded
but he can be guided by two other persons. These people were able to build a
tower with 25 cubes which has used 3 cubes more than the one which was built by
a single person.
Now the scenario where a tower was built by a single person
can be considered as the craft management one which was followed some few years
back. So in this case the person is free to take his own decisions and he is
skilled in the work. But also the time consumed and the satisfaction level attained
by that person is also very high. So another thing that can be interpreted is
that if the person had worked in better team conditions he could have got many
ideas by making some potential discussion with colleagues.
In the second case each people among three took the CEO
role, Middle Level Manager and the worker. Though the task was a daunting one
the task was completed within the time. So the inference from the task is that
the modern management has its own advantages like the person was constantly
motivated by the manager and his CEO, this led the way to complete the task successfully.
So here the people had some monotonous work and there were able to attain the
goal. The interdependency here is too high.
We are looking forward so that we can have some interest case
studies and solve them as quickly as possible.
