28 Jul 1986
To:
Dear Department-Head
A
NON-PRODUCTIVE MACHINE ?
In one corner
of the worker's Lunch-room (LR-3)
in Powai West, stands a box-like structure. At first glance it looks like a steel cabinet for storing grains -
(what else could you store in a canteen?).
But a closer look
reveals that it has a 3' X 2'
frosted-glass screen, with a slide-projector housed inside.
And, of all
the things, it stores information !
On the 22nd
of this month, our Chairman, Mr. N.M.
Desai came to my cabin and said,
"Let us
go and have lunch in the worker's lunch-room today".
During
lunch, I pointed out the slide-projector
to Mr. Desai and said, "During
lunch-period, we propose to
show to the diners, slides on
- Productivity (always first on my list! )
- Safety
- Housekeeping
- Absenteeism
- Suggestion-Scheme, etc. etc.
In brief, we
propose using this machine for sharing
with our employees, all kinds of
information about the
company's operations.
This
projector-machine is going to be the
chief instrument of our Project Information Share,
because, I believe an informed
employee makes a better employee.
We will soon have a similar
machine in Powai-East worker's
lunch-room and next year install similar machines in LR - 2".
While
appreciating the idea behind
the project, Mr. Desai added,
" I
agree. Sharing information about the
company is a good idea, and using lunch-break for this purpose may also be a good
idea but how about using your
machine for a little entertainment as well ?"
I had to
agree that this was an even better idea !.
So next day, I handed over. to Inder Sethi (extn: 451),
some colour-slides which I had brought
during my last visit to Europe and U.S.A.
With economy-drive
(and things
to follow !) we must confine our sight-seeing to
colour-slides at the lunch-table!
So I approach
you with a
request.
If you have any
information,
about -your departmental operations
that you would like to
share with employees - at - large,
please rush it to me-in
the form of tabulations, graphs,
pie-charts, etc. We will make a 35mm slide out of it, mention your name on the
slide as the
"Source" and display
it on our "information-machine". Tell
us about the
positive-trends which you want accelerated, and the negative trends which you want reversed.
Give a 3/5 word message to inscribe
on the slide.
And you are welcome to send your sight-seeing
slides as well -(these, of course, we will return to you in due course).
An unproductive machine ?
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