THREE MONKS

Three Monks is a Chinese animated feature film produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. After the Cultural Revolution and the fall of the political Gang of Four in 1976, the film was one of the first animations created as part of the rebirth period. It is also referred to as The

Three Buddhist Priests.

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."The film does not contain any dialogues, allowing it to be watched by any culture, and a different music instrument was used to signify each monk. The film tells the story from the aspect of the Buddhist monks.

•  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. 
• When the second monk came they tries to share the job with each other, but the carry pole is only long enough for one bucket.

Problems Faced by two monks: 

1. Different opinion leads to conflict.
2. The bucket position was not defined.
3. Attitude of first monk was not appropriate towards work.
4. Height difference between them.
5. Measuring technique of midpoint was not accurate as both the monks have different hand measurement.
6. Their work methods lead to conflict

Solutions proposed by students:

1.            One monk can get two buckets of water each alternate day.

2.            Two persons can carry two or even more buckets at a time with a longer stick.

3.            One monk can stand half way to collect buckets from other monk who will fetch water from pond.

4.            Improve the attitude of the first monk.

5.            The Position of monks should be in such a way that first monk always on uphill side so as to match heights.

Actual Solution:

First monk takes out a scale and measures the midpoint and then they properly carry the water bucket by sharing the load nicely.

• 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 candle holder, 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.

Now where is the Management???

This video teaches many important lessons of Management:

Synergy:

To put out the fire each monk panicked and tried his best to run down to the river and bring the bucket full of water. But this process was long and tiring, and also had too many glitches on the road. So it proved to be ineffective. But later coordinated effort dosed of fire very easily and without being tired.

Complex Problems, Simple Solutions:

 The motto of decision making for any manager in an organization is to give simple solutions. When the first two monks were trying to push the weight of the bucket towards each other, were many solutions given by the class.class has given many solutions but the actual solution was very simple just to measure the midpoint of the stick.

Teamwork:

Earlier the ego of the three monks was interfering with the performance of daily tasks, each believing that the other two should be the ones to go downhill to fetch water. When a fire breaks out, however, they understand the importance of teamwork and thus work together to save the temple. So, from this we learn that in an organization and in a team, it’s important to take personal vanity out and to perform the duty at hand so that there is no regret later.

Conflict Resolution:

To achieve goals, it’s important to take personal vanity out and to perform the duty at hand. Like the three monks did after the fire breaks out.

Scientific Management:

First monk uses proper measuring device for measuring the midpoint of the stick and in the end monks uses pulley to carry water were the examples of scientific management.

CONCLUSION

From the above video analysis, we have come to the following conclusion:

•           One monk carrying water everyday will become boring after a while but two monks carrying water will not be boring and productivity will not be hampered.

The productivity increases with the increase in the number of persons

•           There is more than 100% increase in the production with 100% increase in resources with good co-ordination

•           Disputes and conflicts are bound to arise but they need to be minimized so as to make the most out of the available resources.

•           Team work and coordination are the main keys of success.

Sr. No.	Parameters	Method 1 :One person bringing two buckets	Method 2 :Two persons bringing one bucket	Method 3:Pulley is incorporated
1	Input - No. of People	1	2	3
2	Effort (In Joule)	100	80	Very Less   (Almost Negligible)
3	Output - No. of Buckets	2	1	Many
4	Productivity	100/1 = 100 J	80/2 = 40 J	Much More
5	Communication	Nil	Direct - Personal	Indirect – Instantaneous
6	Task role	Independent	Dependent	Highly Dependent
7	Work changes	Nil	Midpoint Identification	Innovative work practices
8	Work life balance	hard	Easier	Fun
9	Philosophy of work life	Work for death. Protestant work ethic	Work to live	Work-Fun-Moksha
10	Human Nature	Theory X	Theory Y	Theory Z