Craftsmanship Vs Modern Management

Craftsmanship and modern management-

 “Rome was not built in a day”. The proverb seems true in a literal sense also. History will testify the fact that the great things are not built by an individual in a day; it is the collective effort of all the people that bear the fruit.

   A Craftsman is a person who is deft in his work. He has honed his skill to the extent that he has achieved an excellence in his work but his individual skill is of no use if you will look at it from business point of view. It is the collective efforts of all the craftsmen that make a strong and successful organization .If the craftsmen from various fields are brought under a single roof then only it is possible to run parallel processes and combine the efforts of every individual to get optimum output in time bound manner. Also, if we consider craftsmanship as the centre of any organization then it will create dependency which is very disastrous for any organization to move ahead.  The recent trend of ‘deskilling’ in businesses clearly speaks of the fact. In deskilling we divide the whole process into smaller processes and deploy each individual to do this processes, in this way no individual develop any skill completely and the dependency on that individual decreases. The welding process can be deskill into ‘edge preparation’ and ‘running a welding torch’ in this way dependency on individual welder decreases. It is  also easier to control any process by deskilling.

    The point of contrast in craftsmanship and modern management is that the employee satisfaction is higher in craftsmanship as compare to modern management.

3E’s of management.

The 3 E’s of management are ‘Excellence’, ‘Effectiveness’ and ‘Efficiency’ .and excellence can be given as product of efficiency and effectiveness.

                                   Excellence = Effectiveness x Efficiency

Efficiency can be given as doing things in a right manner while effectiveness means doing right things. Analogy goes like if velocity has to be defined it is defined by speed and direction, the direction part is given by effectiveness and the speed part is efficiency which focus on rate of doing things Efficiency can be measured as a ratio of output by input but effectiveness is about choosing best option from the available one.