The principles of organisation and management can be best understood by taking in examples from our practical life.The utility of such things are known to all of us but their implementation in understanding the nitty-gritty of management requires rational thinking.In this article I shall be taking up each parameter required for forming and guiding a team to success.
ALIGNMENT: "There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
Magnates are like magnets which hold a team together.The attracting property of a magnet aligns the dipoles in a specified direction which can be correlated to the concept of unity of direction.The influence of a magnet can bring out the aligning properties in the individual dipoles just as a magnate can lead a team to the summit.The alignment of roles of people is one of the important task that any influential manager should perform.Theory Y of McGregor can be applied for such type of hopeful managers who brings out the best from the subordinates.
STABILITY:Just as the force of attraction between the nucleus (consisting of the protons)and the constantly revolving electron in an atom makes it stable, a successful manager can bring stability to the organisation if he has the power to hold his team at all times.The onus is on the manager to be charismatic enough to bring out the synergistic effects of his subordinates and provide the team with motivation and determination.OPTIMISTIC:The concept of magnet can be related with the principles of organization and management if we consider that positive and negative oulooks are part of every human being and like a magnet which helps in aligning the bipolar particles in a given direction it is the duty of an empathetic manager to minimise as much negativities as possible within the team to make it achieve its realistic goal.
CO-ORDINATION:Now how can we connect between the repulsive property of a magnet and principles of organization and management? We can consider that on bringing in two magnets of same poles from two opposite directions they repel each other just as two managers working in two different directions and straying away from the common goal of the organisation can do no good to the organisation as a whole.
HIERARCHY:Thus in accordance with the principles of organisation the pyramidal structure should be maintained in order to assign stability to the hierarchical structure. The foundation should always be strong so that it can hold the apex in times of disaster.The unity of direction is followed and every block in the pyramid is of equal size so as to abide by the law of the organisation that
"Every employee is equal and special"
EVOLUTION: The word evolution reminds me of giving rise to diversity for propelling forward.The shell of a snail illustrates the concept of spiral which every manager should harp on and instill in the minds of every subordinate for continuous improvement.Each addition in each step should be like the Fibonacci spiral where the rate of acceleration is ever increasing.The hunger to have more in terms of improvement productivity, efficiency and excellence should always remain as the top priority for every team member.
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JUBIN DEY
PGDIM-20,NITIE
