Lesson 2:- Concept of Old and New Management

Lesson 2:- Concept of Old and New Management

In my last blog we captured the essence of “Learning by Earning” and agreed on the GURUKUL panache of teaching.

In order to understand the concept well, we began with a Tower building exercise with the help of small cubes in two stages:-

1.  In first it had be done by a sighted person.

2.  But in second stage a blindfolded person (low level management) had to assemble the cubes who will receive only verbal guidance from another person (middle level management) under the supervision of third person (top-level management).

The results were exciting. In the first stage the sighted person was able to build about 22 blocks, but the second stage resulted in building the tower of 24 blocks. This activity asked two questions form us:-

1.   Despite having adversities how can the 2^nd stage can produce better result than the 1^st?

2.   Which of the above two case should be preferred?

To explain the above questions well lets go through the following table which categorised the different entities of interest.

Entities of Interest	1st stage	2nd Stage
Involvement of person	1	3
Management and Organisation	No	Yes
Decision making	Done by the only involved person	Decision making transferred to group of managers
Performance	Low	High

  

As we can see from the above table how management segmented the task so that everyone can concentrate on the only task given to them so that the factors like fear and adulteration do not affect the performance or the production of the organisation.

After the completion of the task Dr. Mandi explained what is OLD (1^st stage) and NEW (2^nd stage) management. For simplicity the differences between above two can be found in the below mentioned table.

Parameters	NEW Management	OLD Management
Clarity of Work	Ambiguous to the people	Involved person are clear about their responsibilities
Skill level	Involved person are more skilled	Deskilling of work happens
Satisfaction level	More	Less
Productivity	Less	High
Time stamp	High	Less

Conclusions drawn:-

1. Because of the high productivity in less time, it is becoming imperative for every organisations to adopt the concept of new management.

2. How the coordination and relation among three levels in any organisation can affect the performance and production of it.