Tao Te Ching and Wuwei Management

Chapter 27 5 "Good governance": guiding subordinates to engage in healthy competition

Healthy competition, hello, hello, hello everyone.

Good governance. —— "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 8
Water can wash away dirt, bring cleanliness and freshness, and govern the body with righteousness, without intention or action, in line with the Tao, and everything is within the correct natural law.Managers should imitate water ethics, follow principles, adhere to norms, know the time and things, and manage well, so that the team can develop in a healthy way.

How can managers achieve "good governance"? "Govern the country with righteousness, and use troops with strangeness." Human resources management is equivalent to governing the country, rather than using troops abroad. Yang, in the middle of the air, the law of "harmony" is adopted, and the way of neutralization is adopted. "和" means to achieve harmony through mutual reconciliation.For human resources management, to achieve "neutralization" means to be good at grasping the psychological characteristics and personality differences of employees, and adjusting the contradictions among employees to achieve a harmonious, unified and highly cohesive situation , so that the potential and advantages hidden in human resources can be explored to the greatest extent, and at the same time completely eliminate those internal factors that dissipate human resources.

Every leader understands that there will always be competition among subordinates, but competition can be divided into healthy competition and vicious competition. Healthy competition can improve the work enthusiasm of subordinates and improve work performance.Vicious competition will destroy the cooperation among members of the organization, cause "internal friction", and even lead to the loss of outstanding talents.To better motivate subordinates to work, leaders must curb vicious competition among subordinates and actively guide healthy competition among subordinates.

Psychologists believe that everyone has self-esteem and self-confidence, and their potential psychology hopes to "stand in a superior position than others", or "to be regarded as an important person". Psychology is the desire for self-superiority.With this desire, human beings will strive to grow, which means that this desire is the basic element that constitutes human motivation.This desire for self-superiority is particularly evident when there is a specific competitor.

As long as you can use this kind of psychology and set up a competition object, let the other party know the existence of the competition object, you will be able to successfully stimulate a person's motivation.

Derek, known as the father of modern scientific management?When Taylor was an engineer at the Midvale Iron Works in Philadelphia, he used the method of "competition" to manage his subordinates.He once said to a hard-working journeyman, "Jack, why are you so slow in doing a job I ask you to do? Why can't you be as fast as Tom?"

But he said to Tom: "Tom, why don't you follow Jack's example and do things as quickly as he does?"

Not long after, Tom had just returned from a business trip, and Taylor left a note asking him to make a casting and send it to the railway switch and signal factory immediately.

The note was written on Saturday, but Tom got it done on Sunday morning.On Sunday morning, Tyler saw Tom in the manufacturing plant and asked, "Tom, did you see the note I left?"

"Saw."

"When will you cast it?"

"It's been cast."

"Ah, when can it be cast?"

"It's been cast."

"Really? Where are you now?"

"It has been sent to the factory."

Taylor was very happy to hear that.He was amazed to see how well this competitive method of motivating the foremen to do things quickly.As for Tom, he also felt very happy when he saw the appreciative attitude of his boss Taylor.

Sometimes, competitors are not easy to find. At this time, you can "set up" a "competitor".

For unmotivated subordinates, just tell him: "You and Mr. A, success is just around the corner", which is tantamount to implying the existence of his competitors.

The operator of a foundry in Japan has operated many factories, but the profitability of one of them has been stagnant, and the employees are also very unmotivated. They are either absent or late and leave early, and the delivery is always delayed.The factory's products are of poor quality, causing consumers to complain incessantly.Although the operator has criticized the on-site management personnel and tried his best to stimulate the morale of the employees, but it has not been effective.

One day, the operator discovered that the matter he had entrusted to the on-site administrator had not been resolved, so he went out in person.The factory operates two shifts, day and night. When the night shift was about to leave work, he stopped an operator at the gate of the factory. He asked: "How many times can you do the casting process in a day?" The operator replied: "Six times." The operator didn't say a word after listening, just wrote "six" on the ground with chalk.Immediately afterwards, the morning shift workers entered the factory to work. After reading this number, they actually changed the standard of "six", performed the casting process seven times, and wrote "seven" on the ground again. At night, the work of the night shift In order to break the record, the staff made ten casting processes, and also wrote "ten" on the ground.After a month, the factory became the highest performing factory in his operation.

The manager raised the morale of the factory with just a piece of chalk, but where did the sudden morale of the employees come from?This is due to the presence of competitors.The operators have always been procrastinating and not working hard, but when they suddenly had a competitor, their morale was aroused.

Let subordinates passively obey to implement decision-making goals, the result can only be low efficiency, even ineffective, negative effect.Only by finding ways to motivate them to take the initiative to do it can they give full play to their initiative and creativity and obtain high benefits.

It can be seen that healthy competition is beneficial to the organization. It can promote the formation of a learning and working atmosphere among employees. Everyone is actively thinking about how to improve their abilities, how to master new skills, and how to achieve greater success. Achievements... In this way, the cohesion and work enthusiasm among the members of the company organization will be greatly improved.

(End of this chapter)