Modern Management

A great thanks to Mandi Sir for inculcating habit of writing blogs. Now it became a part of my routine to update the new things in my blog and moreover, a natural interest is being created to write a new post as soon as we learn new concepts from Mandi Sir.

                 After interesting discussions on Newton's Craddle and Mandi in the last class, my expectations on Mandi Sir were very high for next class. It is needless to say whether Mandi Sir has reached my expectations in next class. Of course Guys!! Mandi Sir has done it again with his unique teaching methodology.

                                      I know by now you are very curious to know about happenings of class:)

As soon as Sir entered the class, every one of us took our seats on the floor before black board with

much curiosity. Adding to our excitement, Sir had given us some building blocks ramdomly. As everyone was trying to have a close look at building block, Sir has started the discussion about importance of Modern Management :(

                                   The idea here is to learn the difference between Modern Management and Conventional or Craft Management. Since we are in Mandi Sir's Class, we got the advantage of learning the concept with a simple task of building a tower using building blocks in class. 

Game Begins Now!!! As soon as the announcement is made by the Sir that interested person to build the tower can come on the dias, everyone was ready to grab the opportunity to play with toys of Mandi Sir :). Before starting the activity, Sir asked each of us to expect the height of tower in terms of no of blocks. The expected range of height varied between 15 - 30. Now there is a twist in the tale. To our surprise, there was bidding and person who wins bidding will get a chance to build the tower. (I thank Mandi sir as this is the first bidding experience for me!!!). Finally, one of our class mates who paid Rs 500/- and winner of bidding got opportunity to build the tower.

The person was successful to build the tower with 22 blocks and his expectation before the start of activity was 18 blocks. Now it is clearly understood that performance of person exceeded his expectations.
                          Now there was bidding for another activity. Three persons are identified based on bidding process. Of these three persons:

1. one person is a CEO of company
2. Other is a Manager in company  
3. Last one is a worker in company

Activity is worker will be blind folded and Manager has to give instructions to blind folded worker to build the tower. CEO doesn't has much to do here. Expectations of the group was 22 blocks. Perfect instructions of Manager and More perfect implementation of instructions of manager by the blind folded worker made something unexpected real.

             "That is total height of tower was 25 blocks which is more that the expected value"
                      Modern Management follows second process to increase the productivity by making unusual things possible. So take away from this activity is the differences between Craft Management and Modern Management that are mentioned below:

 Craft Management :                                

• Most Satisfying
• Gives Pride
• Decision Making
• Think and Implement

Modern Management :

• More Productive
• No Pride
• Just Taking Instructions
•  No chance for Decision Making.

Above differences are made with perspective of a ground level worker. This clearly indicates that in Modern Management, a separate layer is made only for the purpose of 'DECIDING'. We all here would be part of such layer in future.

In Modern Management, like a Blind Folded Person, a ground level person's job is just to do the work and doesn't get an opportunity to decide or take decisions on the work. Managers will have complete freedom to take decisions and guide workers to complete work. The objective of Modern Management is to completely remove Middle Level Management so that there are only two segment of employees in the industry. One segment is Higher Level to take decisions and frame policies and other segment is Lower Level to implement ideas of Higher Level.

            We also listed down some differences between 'One Person's (1P's)' work and 'More than One Person's ('1P's)' work.

2 hours of time just passed away without any realization and Mandi Sir walked away with Building Blocks. Hope you have enjoyed reading my post and please pass comments if any after reading my blog.