Craftsmanship V/s Modern Management

Organizations –  

How often we come across this news where we read about a Company’s Expansion, Production & Growth.

Year on Year growth, Quarter on Quarter Growth, Better performance Month on Month, bigger market share

What makes it flourishing for so long? Of course constant productivity but how it has become possible for companies to do it constantly for decades and for some of them for centuries?

Well, the answer is, these are not mere companies, these are organizations.

Organization organizes everything that comes in its way of serving its vision.
Company is started by individual or few set of people but is turned into an organization for prolonged growth. The process of turning a company into an organization is what is Modern Management is.

Organization is derived from the Greek word "organon", itself derived from the better-known word ergon which means "organ" – a compartment for a particular task.

An organization does compartmentalization of specific work & that way creates a redundancy.

Now Question is whether multitasking of an employee with in the organization is good or not.

Experiment: -

To find an answer. We carried an exercise with one of senior professors of NITIE (Dr. Mandi), the institute which is known for its productivity led revolution across the nation.

The exercise was of tower building:-

Craftsman

It was carried out by

1. a Single Individual setting a target for himself.

                    & then

2. It was carried out by 3 people:- 

a. A doer who is blind folded.
b. An instructor but who will use only his mouth in the process.
c. A motivator who will be cheering them with the incentives.

Case 1: -

The goal was to build a tower of  at least 20 blocks. He can utilize all his wisdom and hands and every other resource he had.
He was able to build 22 blocks and then the tower fell.

Modern Management with-Blind Folded Doing his task

Case 2: -

The goals set was higher than in the first case, it was set for 23 building blocks. it has to be built by a blindfolded person with someone instructing him.

Result:

A blindfolded person was able to build whooping 26 blocks without being able to see with the help of instructions and motivation.
  An example of MODERN MANAGEMENT and organization practices.

Moment of accomplishment

We came out with following conclusions: -

	Craftsmanship (1 person doing all the work)	Modern Management (set of people)
Scope of work	Ambiguous	Crystal Clear
Skills	Skills Increases	Skills reduces with time(same job every time)
Satisfaction	Remains same or increases	Decreases
Time	remains same always	Increases the first time but keeps on reducing after that
Productivity	Remains Same	Increases time after time