Management

(Management graduates and gurus may find shortcomings in this post if they compare it with established management practices because its not a product of any management practice or study. These are my own personal observations and i always want to follow my own created rules till the time i dont update them with something which seems more meaningful. I however, appreciate comments/criticism from all.)Management is essentially getting a vision shaped by those who can shape it. The vision is of those who have the ability to see something clearer than others, as clear that following the vision seems profitable. They may not be interested or may not know how to actually shape the vision at a granular level. Similarly those who work on shaping the vision, the actual workers, may not understand the vision completely or have faded understanding of the vision.For anybody to work, apart from money, its important that the work fells under his area of importance. Money is a common area of interest for most people but not doing a best quality job does not always mean loosing money. In fact there are so many loopholes in an organization that an individual may keep getting paid for his lifetime with average quality of work. The organization may be interested in keeping an individual as long as his outputs are more than inputs. They may not be best possible but who cares. In the end its the employee who plays with his own life if he doesn't work for the best, but how is the organization concerned about it, its being benifited.But many people may not understand and may think as if they are fooling the organization by doing an inferior quality job. So people will only put thier best, and they will automatically do it without any training or guidance, in the areas which are of interest to them, which they feel at that time of interest to them.Now management has to bridge the gap between the higher authority's broadly defined vision and important requirements of actual workers. These two may not understand each others very well, hence steps inbetween are required.Now how can an organization's vision be made important to an individual worker? An individual worker, naturally would be interested in his own personal growth. The management must decompose the vision to an extent that it becomes understandable by the actual workers. Reciting the same vision in management language even thousands of times would seem foriegn to the actual workers. Hence it must be decomposed.The decomposed items may be understandable to the actual workers but is it necessary that it will call people too so that they put in their best efforts? To me it seems that people most of the time dont even know what they want. How to get what they want is next difficulty if they cross the first hardle. As a manager, he must be first able to understand where an an individual worker stand, what are his real known/unknown needs, what would be various possible genuine options for his growth keeping in mind his needs and capabilities, what all decomposed tasks fit his needs and capabilities and then he should be able to present this to the individual worker in a language which is easily understandable by the individual worker. Then the efforts from worker will be automatic and of best quality because there is 100 percent alignment between the activity and doer. The worker will work for himself and in effect, the organization will grow. We can not think of a worker doing for organization and we paying him money in return. Even after getting money, people work for themselves.Further to this the management need to keep informing actual workers about the vision, the context out of which they are working. People may not understand from the vision how to achieve it, but they will be able to understand whether or not they are going in right direction. This picture of great future will put more enthusiasm in them for doing their bit of work in best possible way. A sense of achivement and contribution in long term goals and alignment of personal requirements with actual work one performs are some of the best tools for getting automatic energy do the job. And anything done by automatic energy is highly creative, filled with quality and restlessness.The best thing for a manager would be to work for the vision providers and the people under him. If he genuinely works for them then he automatically grows in the process. And no matter how much one tries to hide it, people are smart enough to know the real intentions even when its unsaid/unshown. Hence when there is real willing to work for others, there would be a different energy in the environment and entire work will flow through that energy and become so simple and enjoyable.A manager if thinks genuinly about his subordinates, would easily be able to know the best career path for an individual which is in interest of the individual and be able to map the tasks on that path. Management seems to be very simple when seen from this context. Its well said that the context is decisive and difficult problems have simple answers...If one looks at management from this context, then he will be filled with great energy and great management will happen automatically like waves.