3 Monks & Water carrying Issue

 

Brief Introduction:

 

The film is based on the ancient Chinese proverb "One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water.

Story:

 

Part 1 Video:

 

 

 

Part 2 :Video

 

 

 

A young monk lives a simple life in a temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of hauling two buckets of water up the hill. He tries to share the job with another monk, but the carry pole is only long enough for one bucket. The arrival of a third monk prompts everyone to expect that someone else will take on the chore. Consequently, no one fetches water though everybody is thirsty. At night, a rat comes to scrounge and then knocks the candleholder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple. The three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out the fire. Since then they understand the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a harmonious life. The temple never lacks water again.*

Problem Solution: 

 

When there was one monk he had no other option but to carry the buckets by himself. It was long and tiring. This is Craftmanship and commonises the task as he brings water whenever he likes.

Then comes another monk. Together they to bring water. As the stick is small they could carry only one bucket. But thier effort reduced and they could enjoy their time while comming. But this process had a major drawback, if the bucket was tilted to someones side more he had to carry more load. So a solution was reached by a standard methord that it is to be place at the half position only so as to distribute the load equally.

This methord had an added advantage that here the efficiency increased as manual effort per kg of water reduced drastically and they were fresh on reaching the destination.

Now a problem came when third monk reached. Now work division was difficult and the task was put on each others shoulders. This was poor management and a proof that with poor management compiling more more workers would lead to drop in productivity.

Now with the event of fire all of them worked together in a fire fighting mode and devised a new methord of bringing water to the top.

Principles of Management concepts  Usage

 

This new method has an added number of advantage and practical usage of various Principles of Management concepts , which can be elaborated as below:

 

1. Creative Problem Solution:

 To address a crisis situation in future they devised a pulley methord of bringing up water to the top. This also explains that "Neccessity is mother of all Inventions".

2. Current implications:

This method is a modern day assembly line methord in which productivity increased drastically.

3. Mutuality:

Here in this improved methord there is a high amount of interdependency which reduces the unproductive time due to social loafing is reduced.

4. Theory X & Theory Y Compared:

This method is even better than theory X or theory Y because this reduces the work content on each by so much that it makes work play.So the workers enjoy doing their work.This is theory Z.

5 Specialization, standardisaton & Decentralization Concepts Used:

Here work is de centralized and one person does one job only. This gives enhances productivity and excellence of work as both efficiency and effictiveness increases.

6. Synergy:

Here clear enough is that the three persons working together can put more water to the temple than all the working individually.

Work methods comparison:   
  (Copied from Dr. Mandi's Reference Blog)

	Method I	Method II	Method III
Members	One Monk	Two Monks	Three Monks
Work tools and work method	Two baskets Long stick hanging two buckets  two ends of the long stick..	One basket Long stick hanging  one bucket in the middle	Three baskets Rope, Kuppe, and pulling water bucket on pulli
Input  - Effort by monks  ( Units in Jouls)  ( Esti..)	100 Jouls    by One person	50 Jouls by two persons together	Total effort together by the three monks in this method is almost                            ' INSIGNIFICANT'.
Output - Water	2 baskets	One basket	The output ( number of baskets of water )  that the method can fetch is almost   ' SO MUCH WATER'
Productivity Measure:            ( Input / Output)	100 J / 2 = 50 J per basket of water	50 J / 2 = 25 J per basket of water	Insignificant effort per basket of water
Nature of Member Roles	Independent	Somewhat  Interdependent	Very much Interdependent
Monks Life philosophy@ monastry	Life is misery and Death is the solution @ This is evident as shown  in the film the monk is physically exhausted and gets in to  sleep once he gets water from the pond.	Life some how can be managed to make it worth living ..  @ This is evident as shown in the film the monks engage in  more productive prayers. Monks are shown not sleeping as much as they  used to do earlier.	Life is Fun and even monks can have blissful life..  @ This is evident as shown in the film that the monks  are happy and blissful to work together.