"3 monks , No Water"

Productivity:

 Productivity is a measure of the efficiency of production.

Productivity= total output/ one unit of a total input.

Productivity is nothing more than the arithmetic ratio between the amount produced and the amount of any resources used in the course of production.

Productivity = effectiveness/ efficiency.

Measurement plays an important role in your management of productivity. It helps to determine if your organization is progressing well. It also provides information on how effectively and efficiently your organization manages its resources.

 

Team Work:

Now a group of people joined together for a single goal working in coordination with each other is Team Work.This does not mean that the individual is no longer important; however, it does mean that effective and efficient teamwork goes beyond individual accomplishments.

 

Characteristics of effective team:-

·         1.The team must have a clear goal

·         2.The team must have a results-driven structure

·         3.The team must have competent team members.

·         4.The team must have unified commitment.

·         5.The team must have high standards understood by all.

·         6.The team must have principled leadership.
       

                                   3 monks and its learning

          Based on an old Chinese saying, “three monks, no water,” this    story teaches a gentle, humorous lesson about responsibility. Three monks allow personal pride to interfere with the performance of daily tasks, each believing that the other two should be the ones to go downhill to fetch water. When a fire breaks out, however, they understand how silly they’ve been and work together to save the temple.  

     

    

       Management concepts from the “three monk story’’

     Productivity:

        We know that productivity = output/ input

Event	Output ( number of buckets carried)	Input (worker energy unit )	Productivity= output/input
Single monk carrying two buckets	2	2	1
Two monk carrying one bucket	1	0.5	2

 

   From table we can see that when one monk was carrying two bucket the productivity (output/input) is 1 but when 1 bucket is carried by two monk then the energy per unit share by each monk is 1/2 (as they a equally sharing the load of bucket) due to which the productivity increases to 2. 

      It overall means that when we are working in a team than total productivity increases.

    Teamwork:

                 In a team to work successfully it is very important that each and every one of them has mutual understanding with one another. To succeed at accomplishing an assigned task, everyone involved needs to put forth a maximum effort and combine that effort with those of the group. Like when fire occur in the monastery all the monk forgot their dispute and work together to save the monastery, they all had a common goal at that moment. Similarly if every member in a team try to achieve the goal set by the team no one can stop that team to achieve it.

      It is usually noticed that when people work in a team, the overall productivity increases. 

    Later when all three of them started working together as a team, more amount of water was fetched in the  same amount of time.