Peter F Drucker described the primary goal of a manager as: “Make people productive.” In order to do that, they need to perform five functions:
- Set objectives and establish the goals that employees need to reach.
- Organise tasks, coordinate his/her allocation, and arrange the right roles for the right people.
- Motivate and communicate in order to mold staffers into cooperative teams and to convey information continually up, down, and around the organisation.
- Establish targets and yardsticks that measure results and clarify outcomes to ensure that the firm is moving in the right direction.
- Develop people through finding, training and nurturing employees, a firm's primary resource.
To perform above function there some perquisite for employee, this perquisite can be developed and learned through various methods by learning, training and application of board games.
Following are the advantages of playing board games:
- Most board games facilitate human interactions in a constantly changing environment with a wide range of rules and boundaries. It is in these unique and singular situations where the limits of your thinking and creativity are tested to get the desired outcome.
- In board gaming as in real life, we are resource constrained. We only have so many hours in a day or rupees to spend on the things we need and we must figure out the optimal strategy moving forward in order to have the greatest chance of success.
- Most of the time, a single decision isn't going to make a huge difference, but the confluence of many decisions over a period of time can have a profound impact on the way events unfold.
- Board games also provide a safe environment for players to create and test strategies, tactics, and theories and get immediate feedback on the various decisions made throughout the game. This can be valuable practice for real-world situations by helping you understand how you make decisions and how you react to adverse situations
Chess is one of the board game. Chess is an exercise of infinite possibilities for the mind, one which developmental abilities used throughout life: Concentration, critical thinking, abstract reasoning, problem solving, pattern recognition, strategic planning, creativity, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, to name a few.
Chess can be used very effectively as a tool to teach problem solving and abstract reasoning. Learning how to solve a problem is more important than learning the solution to any particular problem. Through chess, we learn how to analyse a situation by focusing on important factors and by eliminating distractions.
We learn to devise creative solutions and put a plan into action. Chess works because it is self-motivating. The game has fascinated humans for almost 2000 years, and the goals of attack and defense, culminating in checkmate, inspire us to dig deep into our mental reserves.
It has been proven that following is a simulation of management tactics, which is help full in management practice.
- Chess dramatically improves employee's ability to think rationally
- Chess increases cognitive skills.
- Chess improves employee's communication skills and aptitude in recognising patterns.
- Chess builds a sense of team spirit while emphasizing the ability of the individual.
- Chess teaches the value of hard work, concentration and commitment.
The writer is Professor Vidhu Gaur, Assistant Professor, MDI Gurgaon