Well this post takes you through the session on Principles of Organization taken by Prof. T. Prasad. Well this was his second lecture class and everybody was eagerly sitting to watch and learn from his innovative ways of teaching.
And he came up with the concept of "Division of Work"- one of the principles of management. He as usual came up with an exercise of building blocks with small solid cubes. The question which was put before us was who would be able to build more blocks and gave two scenarios. The first being one guy with open eyes to build the blocks and another scenario with two guys- one being blind folded and the other person can help him by giving oral instructions.
There were a few important lessons learnt from this activity with the concept of Division of Labor and here goes its merits and demerits. By dividing and assigning a particular section of work to a person and asking him to do just that without letting him know the broader or bigger picture of the business. The employee becomes skilled only in that part of the work and he is closed to any other outside thinking. This in a way reduces his effort as well and improves his productivity in that particular field. But looking it from the employee point of view, his skill set does not improve but looking from the organization point of vie his output in that field improves and he produces the best results.
So looking this from the organization point of view, it would be better to practice this principle considering the fact the employee would get to explore still a lot of things from his area of work.
And coming back to the event that was conducted......yes the team with the blind folded guy and another guy giving instructions to him built more blocks than the open eyed guy.
Happy Reading:)
Raja R S
PGDIM20-Section B
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