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1. My first class of Principles of Organization and Management

 with Dr.Mandi

This was a pleasant morning to start with a new zest and zeal for our fisrt lecture of Principles of Organization and first interaction with Dr.Mandi also. First time a class was not conducted with ppts and chalk but most importantly with tools of handmade toys.Mathematics was being taught with new ways of learning.I personally loved the innovative idea of teaching .

Not being a listener of english music first time listened to Pink floyd’s Another brick in the wall which is rebellion against the education sysytem which is actually giving only bookish knowledge and not practical knowledge. We were trying to actually relate the toys working on principles  of physics. Then we came across popular dialogue of Dr.Mandi which says “Aaj ki roti aaj hi kamana”.  A brilliant concept for sustainability which means Work today to earn your bread today. A remarkable start for new course!

Socho – Becho         Becho- Sikho             Sikho – Socho

A new mantra that we learnt this day which is all about selling your product by proper channelising your ideas and then learning from your past experiences. Going into flashback I can relate this mantra with my work ex. I was a R&D chemist in a Behr process Paints, so according to this statement I remember when the market is tough and you are really geeting neck to neck competition how you have come up with innovatiove ideas to create impact of your product in consumer’s mind. MANDI is an unique event held in NITIE which is based on this principle of selling. In this event students have to sell the handmade toys on the busy roads of Mumbai and that too on the weekday.

2.My second class of Principles of Organization and Management

                                       with Dr.Mandi

Ø Tower building activity

This activity was taken to teach us imporatnce of different roles in organization.First we were made to guess number of blocks that can build a tower by our batch. A proper betting was done on the numbers of blocks this was Goal setting in terms of POM. Then the three students who bidded were selected who played the roles of three different  levels of organization i.e Worker ,Middle management and top management.

So now the target was set at 17, as17 was previously done by Nitie batch 18.Then the worker was blindfolded and was made to use his odd hand to build the tower.The middle management’s role was to guide the worker to get the tower done whereas top management’s role was to observe and interefer only few times to get the  job done.Finally after the smart working of one and half hour these three guys were able to make the tower with 18 cubes and hence the target was achieved. So I learnt two main thing i.e. achievable goal setting and then smartly working to achieve your goal. Overall it was a wonderful activity to learn roles of different levels of company.