It was Dr Mandi's 2nd lecture and the class was eager to see what new he would teach through his innovative activities. This time it were the work management concepts.
As before, it was an eventful lecture where principles of work were taught with the help of an activity. Activity was to build a tower of wooden blocks.
He asked the class to predict how many blocks could be arranged one over the other before it would fall .The estimates ranged from 15-19.
Then he asked us to bid for the activity.
The person with the highest bid got to perform the activity. He started building the tower and was able to compile 22 blocks before they collapsed.
Again the bidding was done.
Finally a team of three was formed for a little role play, one member of the team was blindfolded, other was there to give instructions, and third one to supervise them. They had the target to build the tower of more than 22 blocks so as to beat the other person and win their money.
Bidding was to add to the motivation of the team. With the instructions of his team mate, the blindfolded person could assemble 24 blocks one over the other.
The whole activity was to teach the pros and cons of the Old Management Concept (OMC) and the New Management Concept.(NMC)".We learned how work, skill ,satisfaction and output differs in both.Learning was the pros and cons of both the concepts. How span of work, skill , satisfaction and output differs in both.
Work gets divided into elements in More Than One Person approach. So here work gets enlarged & each task becomes simpler without much need of skill for it.
Also learnt about the hierarchy of the organization. The hierarchy should not be very high as it leads to confusion. The middle management is the one which is usually removed in such scenarios.
The single block building activity was able to teach so many concepts and that too in manner where everyone enjoyed. Looking forward to many such activities to learn in a similar manner.
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