Modern Management.......

By the time I joined college and I started my B-school life every other student was talking about Dr.Mandi and his innovative methods of teaching management concepts. Even though I could not attend the class on Modern Management I came to know about it from friends.

In order to explain the theories involved Dr. Mandi gave a task to build a single base tower using a certain no. of cubical blocks sitting on the floor. He gave two situations where in the first an open eyed person will have to build the tower and in the second the same has to be done by a blind folded person provided there will be another person to guide him but can't touch the cubes.

For this task a random student was selected and asked to
set a goal for himself.  He choose to make a tower of
15 cubes but ended up with 22 cubes, the tower being collapsed.




Now it comes to the second stage, where a guy was blind folded who chose to make a tower of 14 blocks. But actually he built a tower of 26 blocks



So we can consider the first scenario as a craftsmanship and the second as organization.


Now lets try to go deep into the situation, where in Craftsmanship a person works individually and has to set his own goal so the time needed to finish the task.
So the advantages of being a craftsman are

1.   Skills are high
2.   High level of satisfaction
3.   No dependency on others

The disadvantages are

1. The management in this kind of set up is zero.
2. The alienation is very high.
3. The work is not done in parallel. 

On the other hand in an Organization there is a chain of command and instructions which has to be passed from one person to another. e.g the blind folded person was doing what he was guided by his manager.

The advantages of this are

1. Productivity is very high
2. Work is crystal clear as responsibilities are divided among many people.
3. Manager decides the strategy and how to involve people.

The main drawbacks of this kind are

1.  Employee satisfaction level is low
2. Since the work is divided into many parts so skills of each employee is limited.
3. Inter dependency is more.

At the end of the class he explained that how organizational management is at three levels-  Lower, Middle and Upper Management, each one's role and how they are individually important in terms of organizations.