Post 129 - by Gautam Shah
Organizations manage their work as projects or jobs. These
are divided into smaller lots depending on the skills, resources
and other inputs. These are assigned to individuals or smaller
groups as distinct roles. Such allocations are never consistent
assignments. The chief of the organization or the project leader
often offers such assignments to new or untrained or un-experienced persons for two distinct reasons, One, to get fresh
ideas, inputs, and Two, to recast a person’s talent. Such recast
removes the tedium of repetitions and provides new exposures.
The assignments are also diverted from one to another person,
to achieve optimum results.
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Jobs are also given out, to infuse new thoughts, work methods,
and utilize different resources (plant, equipment, tools,
talents). Jobs are presented to a person or a team, as an
opportunity, challenge, and incentive. In design
organizations personnel are identified in terms of their talents,
such as: administrative staff, drafts-persons, cad operators,
model makers, designers, job-captions, associates, and so on.
In medium to large organizations common pools of human and
other resources are formed. Project based team captions or job-based foremen draw their requirements of human and other
resources from such pools.
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Organization is formed by people of different talents and
personality traits that are reflected in their attitude and
conduct. Some detest routine work as much as some love
methodical procedures. Some are hard-headed realists
compared to the idea floaters. These are not exclusive
categories, and under appropriate conditions a person takes on
other characteristics.
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Dream-weavers are prolific generators of ideas and new
concepts, but lack the skill to detail them. The dream-weavers
are mercurial and have a fear of failure. A dream weaver must
be an extrovert otherwise never gets acknowledged. Young age
and dreams are synonymous, but an older person may show
lack of sincerity.
Technocrats have a talent of visualizing structured entities. For
them an entity is conceivable, if only, it is structured and so
practicable. Technocrats are fastidious, uncompromising, and
hardheaded. A technocrat may get entwined in detailing the
parts, and may lose the grasp of the holistic scheme. When
projects need a rethink, a technocrat may prove useless.
Exponents enjoy advocating ideas or schemes, without
bothering either its authorship or practicability. They feel that
the public attention received through the advocacy is the
measure of their skill and success. Exponents are good at
furthering the idea of a project, where project stack-holders
interests are important design considerations.
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Patrons are not necessarily resourceful people, but are ready
to support any new activity that takes them away from their
routine chores, provides a novel experience, and keeps them
busy. A person may become a sponsor by virtue of the position
and powers to allocate resources. Such people are motivated by
strategic gains through various sponsorship.
Arrangers are expert manipulators, and keenly look for a
chance to jump into any difficult situation to manage it. As a risk
taker they collect lots of benefits, and very fast.
Conservatives are very over careful by personality.
Conservatism is due to a struggle less life or due to old age
lethargy. They detest change, but if instrumental of causing
even minor innovation, take a great pride.
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