How to start, what to write is what i am wondering now, coz as always the revelation of insightful realization is difficult to be penned down. But still let me make an attempt.
In today's class we saw a short animated Chinese film on “Three Monks”. Now surely you must be wondering what it has to do with organizational structure and behaviour. Just hold on to your eagerness for a little while and have a glimpse of the masterpiece "The three buddhist priests" by Shanghai animation film studio.
A young monk lives a simple life in a temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of hauling two buckets of water up the hill. He tries to share the job with another monk, but the carry pole is only long enough for one bucket. The arrival of a third monk prompts everyone to expect that someone else will take on the chore. Consequently, no one fetches water though everybody is thirsty. One night, a rat comes to scrounge and accidentally knocks the candle holder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple. The three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out the fire. Since then they understand the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a harmonious life. The temple never lacks water again
In today's class we saw a short animated Chinese film on “Three Monks”. Now surely you must be wondering what it has to do with organizational structure and behaviour. Just hold on to your eagerness for a little while and have a glimpse of the masterpiece "The three buddhist priests" by Shanghai animation film studio.
STORY IN BRIEF:
A young monk lives a simple life in a temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of hauling two buckets of water up the hill. He tries to share the job with another monk, but the carry pole is only long enough for one bucket. The arrival of a third monk prompts everyone to expect that someone else will take on the chore. Consequently, no one fetches water though everybody is thirsty. One night, a rat comes to scrounge and accidentally knocks the candle holder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple. The three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out the fire. Since then they understand the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a harmonious life. The temple never lacks water again
LEARNINGS:
Here i would like to pick up certain instances from the film and talk about them:
1: Variety and differences: all the 3 monks were of different sizes, shapes, and nature. the same thing could be linked to organizations, where every employee is one of its kind, and the manager needs to manage them irrespective of the disparities.
2: Joint work: as soon as the second monk came to the temple, the 1st monk inherently partnered him for the work. this shows the positive trait of working in tandem that we all humans possess.
3: Team conflict: even though they started working together, but soon enough there was a conflict between the 2 regarding their work. thus this again brings us to the fact that humans have an innate tendency to undergo conflicts when asked to work in teams.
4: Solving conflict: conflicts will always be a part of our lives, but running away from them is not the solution. We should encourage conflicts to come up with better ways to deal with them. Thats what the monk did when he took a scale to find out the mid point of the stick.
5: Lack of accountability : with the entry of the 3rd monk all of them started to run away from their duties. this happened because there was no clear cut defined role for them. the same thing may happen in an organization which has many members but not well defined set of goals to keep them focussed.
6: Crisis breeds efficiency and effectiveness: when the fire happens and trouble looms, all the 3 monks starts to work in tandem. an effective team will take precautionary measures rather than work when things turn worse.
7: Synergised work - efficient work: the last part shows the worker devising a strategy where each of them works equally to make the process efficient and reduce individual work to almost nil.
- the solution is innovative
- the solution is sympathetic with the changing team dynamics and size
- the solution is a revolutionary one
- the solutions envisions clearly defined roles for individual worker
- the solution involves 'SYNERGY'
8: Productivity: the solution was a great step towards enhancing and improving the productivity of work by multifolds. With every new situation the productivity(o/p / i/p) increased exponentially leading to almost zero efforts from each of the workers in the final case with maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
TAKE AWAY: i am sure all your doubts have been cleared regarding how effectiveness of education can be improved by innovation. That's how our curriculum at NITIE goes, strongly handheld by our very own Dr MANDI.
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