~ MAGNET - ALIGNMENT - BUSINESS ~

Have you ever played with magnet ... Of course the answer would be yes and if provided one now you would start playing with it . One of the POM classes we had same experience . Dr Prasad came to class and distributed some magnets to us. We as usual started playing with its magnetic strength.  But after a while he asked us , 'why does a magnet attract metal ? Of course he wanted a Management level answer but we engineers always thought it the technical way . At last someone said  ALIGNMENT . Yes in terms of management , a magnet teaches us how to align manpower in proper direction to create the force.Basically what a magnet does is to align all the magnetic poles in one direction... i.e north poles in one and south poles on other.

Same way as the magnet does alignment , a MANAGER does the same in a organisation i.e perceives the best person at the best place so as to carry on the business smoothly . They align people and power along with their task and objectives .

Same is the case with Music and Noise... When a guitar is tapped in unorganized way noise is produced which is irritating to ear , but when tapping is done in a certain organised  manner with all the strings working fine , a perfect tune is played which soothes our ear. So its very clear that its Organizing matters apart from the work .

So in management we call such alignments as : MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVES (MBO)

  It is a process of defining objectives within an organisation so that both the section i.e managers and employees properly understand their domain and what they are supposed to perform .

Peter Drucker's book The Practice of Management in the year 1954 popularized management by objectives.Thinking in a confined way , its the goal setting in managerial level so as to make process going An important part of the MBO is the measurement and the comparison of the employee’s actual performance with the standards set. Ideally, when employees themselves have been involved with the goal setting and choosing the course of action to be followed by them, they are more likely to fulfill their responsibilities. 

This can be further understood by previous blog on Craft management & Modern Management and Three Monks . So consolidating features in one single table I came up with :

So as seen in the table we can see the major difference in controlling and the loads present in the various types of management organisation . Mismatch or ego clashes are the major problem of flaws in the Three monk type. This can be seen in case of sports person as well as very clearly in politics . So final teaching that came out of the class is that when a work is done in a proper organised way with every person doing the best possible work he could perform  , then the work efficiency increases with accountable profit at the end.