Project management training diary 2

A small thing can often touch your mind and make us feel something in our life. An interesting little fable can also enlighten managers.

The following is a fable:
The hunter took the hound to the forest for hunting. The Hound drove the rabbit out of the nest and kept chasing it. After a long time, the Hound still failed to catch it. Later, the rabbit turned around and did not know where to go. When the hunter saw this scene, He sneered at the hound and said, "A small one is running much faster ." The Hound replied, "You don't know that our two 'run' are completely different! I only ran for a meal, but it ran for my life ."
The Hunter thought that the hound was right. If I want to get more prey, I have to think of a good way for the hound to fight for its own survival. After thinking about it, the Hunter thinks it is necessary to introduce a competitive mechanism to the Hound. More rewards will be given to those who do well in the competition.
As a result, the hunter buys several more hunting dogs and stipulates that if a rabbit can be caught in hunting, five bones can be obtained. If the rabbit cannot be caught, there will be no food to eat. At the beginning, the hunters were very disgusted, but over time, they gradually adapted to this mechanism. This action really worked, and the hunters tried to catch up with rabbits because no one wanted to see others eat bones and they didn't eat anything.
After a while, the problem appeared again. The hunter found that although five or six rabbits could be caught every day, the rabbit was getting smaller and smaller. It turns out that some hunting dogs are good at observation and find that the big rabbits run fast and have rich experience in escaping. The small rabbits run slowly and have little experience in escaping, so the rabbit is much better than the big rabbit. The hunter's reward for hunting dogs is calculated based on the number of rabbits it captures. Regardless of the size of the rabbits, the hunters who observe carefully discovered this trick first.
The hunter said to the hunters, "the rabbits you caught are getting smaller recently. Why ?"
"The size does not affect rewards and punishments. Why do you need to take advantage of it ?"
The hunter decided to reform the rewards and punishments method and calculate the food for the Hound based on the weight of the rabbit. After this reform, the Hound tried their best to catch the big rabbit. This action seems to play a very good role.
After a while, the hunters found that there were as many hunting dogs as their neighbors, but there were more rabbits than they could catch. The hunter asked his neighbors. The neighbor said: "My Hound has strong abilities and poor abilities. I am able to help and learn from each other. In addition, I made up several groups of hunting dogs, and each group worked with each other. In this way, the number of rabbits caught increased significantly ."
The hunters thought this method was very good. After returning home, they decided to let their hunting dogs learn from each other and cooperate with each other, and organized the hunting dogs into several groups. After a period of implementation, the hunters found that the effect was not good at all, and the hunters did not have the enthusiasm for learning. Instead, the number of rabbits caught by each group was not as high as the number of rabbits caught by a single worker. Where is the problem?
It is certainly true that the hunters can learn from each other and improve their ability to catch rabbits. It is not wrong to divide the hunters into several groups and cooperate in the division of labor, because the hunters do the same for their neighbors. The hunter decided to have a meeting with the Hound. The Hunter said to the hound, "I want you to learn from each other and improve the rabbit catching skills. Why are you reluctant to learn? In addition, why is it better to make a single job together ?"
The Hound said: "It has been very hard to catch a rabbit. It takes us time to learn. Of course, there are fewer rabbits to catch, but the bones are still allocated according to the previous method, how are you willing to learn? In addition, when you organized us into several groups, we didn't take into account how we distributed our work. Each of our groups often fought for split bones. How do you let us work together?"
The hunters thought that the hunting dogs were justified and decided to thoroughly reform the way to split the bones. No matter whether a hound can catch a rabbit every day, it will give a fixed number of Bones. After catching the rabbit, there will be another reward. However, when you think about it, there are still a lot of problems, because we are working by group now. Some hunting dogs in the group are responsible for catching up with rabbits, some are responsible for copying packets, and some are responsible for patrolling outside the group, prevent rabbits from escaping from the encirclement. How should each group receive rewards based on the rabbits they have caught? Does the number of bones remain unchanged? Should the number of fixed bones obtained by different hunting dogs be the same? Will the Hound go out and catch the Rabbit without turning it in?
This is a typical case of performance appraisal and Incentive Mechanism Establishment.