The Tower of Organisation - Craftsmanship Vs Organization

The history of production has its roots back in the origin of the intelligent human race, but the production is of Craftsman type as there is no drive for the effectiveness and scientific approach has been used to improve the whole process of production until the birth of the management.

Craftsmanship is a production activity of a single independent person using his skills.In this process of producing a goods or services the person executes the process according to his/her personal liking and comfort zone without thinking about the efficiency of the process, like a carpenter, a cobbler or a plumber.

The organization is a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need to pursue collective goal. all the organization have a management structure that determines relationships between the different activities and the members, and subdivides assigns roles, responsibilities and authority to carry out different tasks. Organizations are open systems - they affect and are affected by their environment.

The basic comparison of the Craftsmanship and Organization is listed below 

S. No	Craftsmanship	Organization
1	It is a activity of 1 person	It is a activity of more than 1 person
2	No parallel process, no dexterity	Parallel process, Dexterity
3	Less Dependency	More inter dependency
4	Person oriented approach	Process oriented approach

The approach of organization is "More out of Less for More" and seeking fine balance between 

1) Excellence

2) Effectiveness

3) Efficiency

A Tower Building Activity:
For a batter understanding of the organization concept an activity of tower building from the wooden cubes had been done in the class. In the activity, firstly a student alone build a tower this represents a craftsman and  asked him the target of numbers of cubes he can use to build the tower, he sets the goal at 20 but it end up in tower building a tower of 16 cubes. This is craftsmanship where there is no organization and management.

For using a organisation concept in this activity as simple as this the first question comes to the mind is how much persons are required and what work should be assigned to different person. Prof. Prasad asks for some volunteers to come forward and it tuns out to be 8. now a person had told to build the tower but now blindfolded and a person is there for instructing him, who is ultimately taking inputs from other 6 persons. the result of the activity is that the person is not able to build the tower more than 7 blocks however their expectation(goal) was to build a tower of more than 16 unit(as built by person alone ). the reasons is the person working there is confused by the many inputs coming and the uncertainty of a input i.e it is changing with the every cube.

Prof. Prasad explain that the 6 person is the excess middle management when present confuse the worker and reduce the productivity so the main work of the organization is to create a specific role and responsibility for every individual present in the organizational structure to achieve the specific organizational goal.