Theory X-Y 

While working I came across various kinds of people.Human nature varies over a wide spectrum.Theory X and theory Y tries to divide bosses and there employees broadly into two different kinds giving over all four combinations.At different points in my life I have played most of the roles.I will try to discuss some of my experiences here.

 Case 1:Manger thinks workers are bad and the workers are bad.

When I started my job I was lazy and no doubt my boss thought so.He threw me out of his team and believe me i had no regrets.

Case 2:Manager thinks workers are lazy but the workers are good.

When this happen to me I thought this was destinies way of getting back at me.When I had a comparably good boss i didn't work and now when I was working my boss just couldn't see it. Frustration crept in but I knew I had to continue.The best thing is to keep your distance and remain unnoticed so that your not exactly pointed out.But things change as the project got over and I was once again placed under a new boss.

Case 3: Workers are lazy but the manager thinks the workers are good
Never experienced this scenario myself but have seen others in this kind of situation.Managers by this kind of belief have turned around there teams and have achieved amazing success.


Case 4:Manger thinks the workers are good and the workers are good
This is the ideal scenario. Bosses are happy ,workers are happy.Dr.Prasad did say that there is no management involved in this kind of scenario as everything is fine.I agree to that.But the fact that we are over looking is that it takes a hell lot of an intelligent manager to maintain this situation over a long period of time.Personally my last six months were of same kind.I learnt a lot about my job and my field which even helped me in MBA interviews and would always remain thankful to my boss.

These theories apart what i have felt is scenarios define the relationship between boss and his employee.The same set of people can be all the four cases at various points of time.
Lets see further what other theories we get to learn.Looking forward eagerly to next class.

Principles of management 
First Class
A few months ago my cousin was raving about pink floyd and coaxing me to listen to their songs.He transferred a few of their songs to my mobile but I never cared to listen.Didn't expect the first class of management to open with this song.Satires on education abound ,but such musical ones are rare.

Everybody tells what to learn and what all events to take part in B schools,but the fact that we must earn the same amount of money during over education never occurred to me.Dr.Prasad impressed the idea on me in the very first class.To be truthful I would be very happy even if I could earn 1/10 th of what I overall spend in NITIE..!!

Simple things teach great lessons.Toys created by NGOs and tribals could teach us the principles of physics that most expensive textbooks can't.Dr.Prasad's simple toys had all the physics laws applied on them.During the class only i started thinking how I would sell these toys to school children and there parents..!

A activity carried out in the class is the best way to explain ideas of management to the students.A simple tower building from cubes required some of the most fantastic decision making ability.Few overestimated and many underestimated.At the end I was surprised that i had estimated almost half(10 out of 17) the blocks that were actually built.But the real surprise came when we were asked to make an estimate with the person blind folded.All of us had lowered our estimates.But the gurus of management will tell u when the going gets tough the tough get going.So,Dr.Prasad said that we must set our goals higher and that is what is management.

Excellence= Efficiency x effectiveness 
Excellence is what everybody of us is trying to achieve.In management it is the product of efficiency and effectiveness .Efficient engineers combine with effective managers to build excellent companies

Learning with a difference that what happens in the class.Looking forward to many more excellent sessions with Dr.Prasad.