THE NITTY-GRITTY OF TOWER BUILDING

         
  Can anyone say what foundations are required to build a tower?
  Think,think and think............

  the answer is organisation management.....
 As a kid I use to place cards on top of one another trying to  build a storeyed building but would fail all time after reaching a particular height.At such a tender age I was unable to decipher the real reason behind the failure.It was only through the Principles of Organisation and Management lectures of Dr. Mandi made me realize that the target set was not SMART.

Experiment 1: Dr.Mandi gave us a stimulating lecture on the Tower Building lessons and helped us in correlating the idea with modern management.He gave us a class activity where one student was asked to build a tower with
small wooden cubes such that the tower would be resting only on a single cube and not more than that.Prior to building the tower he was asked as to what target he would like to set for himself. With the set goal in mind the activity started but finally the tower made was of a lower height than the set target. Here he explained us the concept of goal setting where A>B>C>D as shown in the adjacent picture.

A= Goal set
B= Potential
C= Goal achieved
D= History


Inferences:
 1. The potential of the workforce is to be realized before setting the goal 
 2. The goal set should always be higher than the goal achieved.
 3. Aiming high is the key to success for any organisation.
 4. Goals set should be specific,measurable,achievable,realistic and time-bound.


Experiment 2: After completion of the first activity Dr. Mandi modified the task and asked for seven more students to volunteer so that the newly appointed seven students would be guiding the previous student in building the tower as he would be blindfolded.With a set target the group started their activity but could not build the tower in time.Here  again he explained us the concept of POSDCORB.



Inferences:
1. Without proper POSDCORB an organisation cannot sustain.
2.  Proper planning and organizing are the strongest backbones of setting an organisation.The absence of any one would shake the foundation.It is always better to do homeworks rather than fail in exams.
3. Proper staffing, directing and co-ordinating among the managers and the workers are a must for accomplishment of the goal of an organisation.
4. Proper reporting and budgeting are directly related to an organisation's profit margins and should never be neglected.



Realization: The team of migratory birds that travel long distances from one place to another with a set goal of reaching a destination of cold climes is a perfect example of organising,staffing,directing and co-ordinating.Similar to them,the human body is another example of such co-ordination. Now keeping aside Mother Nature I find that for an organisation to have a firm footing in the corporate world the managers and the workers should restore to POSDCORB among themselves.From my personal experience of working in a petrochemical company I can say that lack of any co-ordination between two or more departments can lead to bottlenecks.Improper planning and coordination between procurement department of naphtha and operations department of my previous organization led to naphtha shortage( being the raw material of my previous organisation) and untimely increase of plant throughput  incurred huge losses for the organisation.What the system lacked was POSDCORB.


These are some of my inferences to the above two experiments
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Jubin  Dey
NITIE - PGDIM-20