Chapter 284 Military Management
Guan Yu took the western capital of Chang'an, and reunited with his wife, a long-lost family affection spontaneously emerged, there is no important war at the moment, Guan Yu is rare to relax, he took his wife to play Chang'an together, especially the nine cities of Chang'an, very lively, Guan Yu with his wife Hu Dingjin and son Guan Ping, the three of them walked the streets and alleys together, personally felt the customs of Chang'an City, Guan Yu was dressed in plain clothes, and walked with his wife in the street market of Chang'an, just like an ordinary civilian with his wife and children not on this Chang'an Street, Looking at the bustling crowd and merchants and the many shops, the prosperity of the market makes the family feel happy, maybe such a day is longing for and unattainable.
Hu Dingjin accompanied her husband and son, and the family finally hugged each other, this is what she has been looking forward to for a long time, such a relaxed life, so that the previous troubles are gone, and there is only happiness and sweetness, just like a newcomer in the honeymoon, this strong family affection made Guan Yu's body and mind a lot easier, the previous highly tense nerves made him sometimes feel physically and mentally exhausted, and now he relaxed and made him realize the happiness of life, happiness is so simple.
But said that Guan Yu's family stayed in Chang'an, and his generals also took a vacation to travel in Chang'an, this is the first time in Guan Yu's life to relax his generals, as a leader a military leader, Guan Yu, who is well versed in management, made a new move to his subordinates this time, he gave his subordinates a holiday for the first time in his life, these generals who followed their own birth and death, and fought in the east and west, often caught in wars, and spent a lot of time in their lives on the battlefield, although there are extraordinary and frequent wars still make people feel that life is too tense, A highly stressful and hectic life can be easy but easy to get bored.
Maslow, a management scholar, believes that there are five levels of needs in life. Survival is the lowest need, and Maslow's hierarchy of needs has the following six types:
Physiological needs are also known as the lowest and most advantageous needs. Such as: food, water, air, libido, health.
Characteristics of unmet physiological needs: not wanting anything, just wanting to keep yourself alive. The ability to think and the sense of morality have become obviously fragile. For example, when a person is in desperate need of food, he will do whatever it takes to grab it. In times of war, people do not queue up to receive bread. Suppose people work for remuneration and motivate subordinates with physiological needs.
Incentives: increased wages, improved working conditions, more spare time and breaks, and improved benefits.
Security needs, which are also low-level requirements, include personal safety, stability in life, and protection from pain, threats, or illness.
Insecure characteristics: Feeling that you are threatened by the things around you, and that this world is unfair or dangerous. Thinking that everything is dangerous, becoming nervous, hesitant, and thinking that everything is "evil". For example, a child who is bullied by his classmates at school and treated unfairly by his teachers begins to distrust society. Becoming afraid to express oneself and have a social life (because he thinks it is dangerous) to protect oneself by doing so. An adult, with a poor job and a meager salary, can't afford to support his family, and becomes self-defeating, using drinking and smoking every day to find a temporary sense of comfort.
Incentives: Emphasize rules and regulations, job security, welfare benefits, and protect employees from losing their jobs. Medicare, unemployment insurance, and retirement benefits are provided to avoid confusion caused by double directives for employees.
Social needs are higher-level needs, such as the need for friendship, love, and affiliation.
Characteristics of lack of social needs: Because they do not feel the care of those around them, they think that they have no value to live in this world. For example: a teenager who is not being cared for by his parents. Believing that they have no value in the family, they make friends at school, ignoring morality and rationally actively seeking friends or the same kind. For example, teenagers want to integrate themselves into the social circle. Helping others make cows and horses, and even smoking. pranks, etc.
Incentives: Provide social opportunities among colleagues, support and praise employees to find and establish harmonious and warm interpersonal relationships. Organized sports competitions and group gatherings.
Respect needs are higher-level needs, such as achievement, fame, status, and opportunities for advancement. The need for respect includes both personal feelings about achievement or self-worth, as well as the recognition and respect of others.
Characteristics that do not satisfy the need for respect: become very face-loving, or very positive in using actions to make others identify with themselves, and are easily attracted to vanity. For example: using violence to prove one's toughness, studying hard to become a doctor, being a lawyer to prove one's existence and worth in this society, the rich making money for their own fame and fortune, or donating money.
Incentives: Publicly reward and praise, emphasize the arduousness of the task and the superb skills required for success, award honorary medals, publish articles in the company's publications to praise, and honor rolls for outstanding employees.
The need for self-realization is the highest level of demand, including the need for the highest state of life obtained for truth, goodness and beauty, so the first four needs can be satisfied, and the highest level of needs can be produced one after another, which is a derivative need, such as: self-realization, giving full play to potential, etc.
Lack of self-actualization needs: Feeling that one's life is driven by a sense of emptiness, and to do something that a "person" should do in this world, it is extremely necessary to have things that can make him more fulfilling, especially to let one deeply experience the things that one has not lived in vain in this world. I also began to think that values and morals trump money, love, respect and social prejudices.
For example: a person who genuinely makes a donation to help others. A martial artist and sportsman trains his physical fitness to the extreme, making himself the best in the world or simply surpassing himself. An entrepreneur who genuinely believes that the business he runs can bring value to this society, and works to be better than yesterday.
Incentives: Adaptation strategies for complex situations are used in the design of work, special tasks are assigned to people with special skills, and there is room for subordinates in the design of work and the implementation of plans.
Hyper-self-actualization is a theory proposed by Maslow in his later years. This is when a person's psychological state fully satisfies the need for self-realization, the short-term "peak experience" that usually occurs when performing a thing or completing a thing can only be deeply experienced, usually in the artist, or musician.
Guan Yu in modern times to Maslow's management concept is very appreciative, for the memory of this knowledge, let Guan Yu fully explore the connotation of this management, as the supreme leader of the army, the army certainly has such and such rules and regulations and military regulations to regulate the various behaviors of the soldiers, this is a kind of institutional guarantee, to ensure the orderly and standardized operation of the organization, but this system ignores the consideration of human nature, but the passive of people as a kind of machine, the army is certainly an efficient organization, But after all, soldiers are independent people, as long as they are human beings, there are various needs as a person, that is to say, as proposed to Maslow, people have five needs, and to meet this need of people is undoubtedly more able to mobilize people's subjective initiative, more stimulate a person's potential, and once the individual potential of a person is fully stimulated, it will be more actively integrated into organizational life, and if a collective can fully tap the potential of each individual as an individual, there is no doubt that the potential of the whole will be fully explored. For a combat unit, how to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops is very important, and how to mobilize the subjective initiative of individual soldiers is the key to improving combat effectiveness, and how to stimulate the subjective initiative of individual soldiers is the most important thing to consider as a manager.
Guan Yu as a leader of the army for many years has been committed to stimulating the combat ability of individual soldiers to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, in this regard he has a lot of exploration and thinking, once he has made great efforts to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, especially to improve the combat ability of the troops, to engage in military training, to formulate the military system of the troops, especially to formulate some regulations on rewards and punishments and promotion, to stimulate the combat effectiveness of the troops, but gradually he realized that simply improving their military quality is not enough, people are not machines, It is impossible to engage in all kinds of activities mechanically, they are a person with all kinds of feelings, and they still have to do ideological and political work in the modern army, and this is an important part of the army, and this has a direct impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops, and in this era, it is impossible to do ideological and political work on the team headquarters, but a new strategy for managing the military can be considered.
Although there is no complete set of ideological and political work as a guarantee, Guan Yu still fully integrated some modern concepts of managing the army into the troops, such as: holding democratic discussion meetings, applying the principle of unanimity between officers and soldiers, and conducting research and visits at the grassroots level; these are some of the ideas of the modern army, and Guan Yu has fully integrated these into his own army, and has received some results, but these are far from enough, and in order to form a more powerful control over the army and improve the combat effectiveness of the team headquarters, it is necessary to seek new breakthroughs in management. Seeking a breakthrough in management is not only to innovate from the system, of course, institutional innovation also needs to be continuously improved, but also to seek a breakthrough from the aspect of human management, that is to say, to subdue the management of the military heart.
The instability of the military heart directly affects the morale of the entire army, and ultimately affects the outcome of the entire battle, the military heart is particularly important in this era, so the key to governing the army is to capture the military heart, winning the military heart is equivalent to winning the war, the key to the military heart is nothing more than whether the commander can give everything that he yearns for as a sergeant, of course, the needs of the sergeants are the five life realms mentioned by Maslow mentioned above, Guan Yu compared Maslow's theory with his own sergeants, He needs to urgently solve the problem of controlling the sergeants in order to control the sergeants in these five life needs, so that they can realize their self-worth while they are well fed and clothed. (To be continued......)