"TOO MANY COOK, SPOIL THE FOOD"
I heard this quote at least 10 years ago. I had also studied the theory of diminishing productivity & always used to think how can more people in a particular group spoil the work or how the productivity will be decreased.
I had got a project on research from my college on doing a project on "Customer Satisfaction towards Laptop". One of the simplest project of my life as gathering data was easy in a big college with 25000 students & at least 2000 laptop users.
We were in a group of 10 & all 10 were among the best in the lot of our class. The research begin with only 5-6 people suggesting different objective & all had one. Then making Questionnaire that would be asked to the respondent.
It took us 3 days to finalize the questionnaire. Then the main task of filling those, We divided our group into two groups one would be handling the data collections of college student & other of the professionals (which was not easy).
After this task was completed, Our professor said us to do the analysis on SPSS software. A new blow, nobody knew how to use this new software. Sir only said to feed the data by giving them a number i.e. Yes-1 No-2.
2 member of our group started feeding the data. 8 were looking for a job to do but they didn't wanted to feed the data including me. When these members were doing the data feeding, another member who didn't had any work to do said them "What have you people done since morning?" I hope you all reading this blog understood what he actually meant.
One of the group member got angry on this & without saying left the group or stopped doing work. Now nobody knew who is doing what. those who did never said it to others. The whole group coordination was affected by this which resulted in people doing what they want, not knowing the result of that.
At last, I took on the part of data feeding of other information & said the analysis team to attach my report with them as i wanted to leave for Mumbai for an urgent work. It all messed up & our group had the worst presentation in the class.
Although we will get the least mark for this. There are many things i learned from this group. some of them are as follows:
anyways cheers................
I heard this quote at least 10 years ago. I had also studied the theory of diminishing productivity & always used to think how can more people in a particular group spoil the work or how the productivity will be decreased.
I had got a project on research from my college on doing a project on "Customer Satisfaction towards Laptop". One of the simplest project of my life as gathering data was easy in a big college with 25000 students & at least 2000 laptop users.
We were in a group of 10 & all 10 were among the best in the lot of our class. The research begin with only 5-6 people suggesting different objective & all had one. Then making Questionnaire that would be asked to the respondent.
It took us 3 days to finalize the questionnaire. Then the main task of filling those, We divided our group into two groups one would be handling the data collections of college student & other of the professionals (which was not easy).
After this task was completed, Our professor said us to do the analysis on SPSS software. A new blow, nobody knew how to use this new software. Sir only said to feed the data by giving them a number i.e. Yes-1 No-2.
2 member of our group started feeding the data. 8 were looking for a job to do but they didn't wanted to feed the data including me. When these members were doing the data feeding, another member who didn't had any work to do said them "What have you people done since morning?" I hope you all reading this blog understood what he actually meant.
One of the group member got angry on this & without saying left the group or stopped doing work. Now nobody knew who is doing what. those who did never said it to others. The whole group coordination was affected by this which resulted in people doing what they want, not knowing the result of that.
At last, I took on the part of data feeding of other information & said the analysis team to attach my report with them as i wanted to leave for Mumbai for an urgent work. It all messed up & our group had the worst presentation in the class.
Although we will get the least mark for this. There are many things i learned from this group. some of them are as follows:
- TOO MANY COOK, SPOIL THE FOOD
- Do not have more people then you need.
- Have an experience captain, who can make others work.
- Do not hurt others who are working.
- Do not stand where you are not needed.
- Have Patience.
- Think twice before you say once.
- Respect others work & appreciate them.
- Do not take responsibility, if you don't have authority.
anyways cheers................
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