2. Damayantiben J. Modi
• Birth place : Bhavnagar
• Date of birth : 17th Nov, 1934
• Father’s name : Jadavjibhai
K. Modi
• Staunch : Gandhian
• Designation : Social worker
(Retired professor)
3. Father’s introduction in her words
He was a good leader of our city at that time. He
was minister in government. He had handled education and
pwd department nicely as a minister. He had helped to unite
202 rajwadas. He had been chair person in council of admin.
He had worked as a speaker in Saurastra Parliament.
He had worked as a trustee in more than 20
trusts. He was loyal to his work and helpful to people in their
work. He was the founder of ‘Kathiyawad Vyayam Pracharak’.
4. Education Qualification and work experience
She studied in famous Dakshinamurti Balmandir
and Home school. She studied BA at Rajkot and B.Ed at
Baroda. She had completed MA in Bhavnagar and M.Ed
at Ahmadabad in part time.
She had worked as a teacher in higher
secondary department at her own old school-Home school
for three years. She had also worked as a lecturer , as a
reader and as a professor for five years. She had been a
Head Of Department in Bhavnagar University for years.
She is retired and working and helping people by her
knowledge and talent. She is working with different
committees which are trying to aware people about right
things.
5. Social Works She had done
• During high school she has done social works in refugee
camp.
• She was working in ‘Bharat Sevak Samaj’ during her
college time.
• She was a leader of ‘Bhavnagar Mahila Kelvani Mandal’.
• She was a chairman of ‘Earthquake Security Committee’
and she had helped people during that period.
• She has worked as a secretary in ‘Nutan Bal Sangh’
(NBS)-established by well known Gijubhai
Badheka,Bhavnagar Unit for 3-4 years and later she has
been co-secretary of NBS-Gujarat.
6. Social Works She had done
• She is one of trustee of ‘Saurastra Gandhiji Gramodhhar
Trust’.
• She is very active in ‘Atomic Energy Study Group’ to
create awareness in rural people about hazardable
effects of the atomic power plant and pollution.
• She is one of the trustee in ‘Mahila Swaraj Munch’ which
is founded for authorized ladies-working in government.
She is actively helping them by her knowledge and
talent.
7. Filter can be used to separate ‘contributors’
from ‘workers’
Defining work in terms of “challenge-response
cycles” is the filter we can use to separate ‘workers’ from
‘contributors’. Very often you will find that in service-based
organizations, people are extremely process-oriented.
A contributor, will say, “I am here to actually help
you and make a difference at the level of your outcomes. So,
let me try and do whatever is within my power to get the job
done.” This is the difference between a process-worker and a
contributor.
8. Qualities-Contributor should posses
She is believing that background can make the
person different than anyone else. Schools, teachers,
parents, friends, colleagues, classmates and
environment play vital role in building personality of
individual. Contributor is the one who can work beyond
their duty when needed. According to her individual can
make difference in organization if he/she is a real
contributor. Contributor usually have passions, high
tolerance power, enthusiasm and vibrant personality
who can be ideal to anyone.
9. Contributors ‘make things happen’ +
the ‘right way’- According to her
• Contributors have both human values as well as
functional effectiveness – They get the job done, but
also do it the ‘right way’. A person, who has values but
no effectiveness, is not useful. A person, who is very
effective but doesn’t have values, is a very dangerous
person.
• They have an attitude of ‘creating value’ in the job –
“When I go there, what value am I creating? Am I just
‘doing’ or am I ‘creating value’?” That kind of question
that comes to their mind.
10. Human values - Contributors demonstrate
They have integrity in their actions. Integrity
also includes being trustworthy. Saying that you will not be in
time, you are communicating, “I am not trustworthy”, “I may
not keep my word”. Trustworthiness doesn’t mean honesty
alone, it also means being able to communicate that I will get
the job done – “What I promise, I will do”. That is also part of
trust.
There is ‘win-win thinking’ – not only do I
win, others also win. For example, some employees take
leave just before a crucial assignment or project. This shows
that they are interested in their ‘win’ alone, not in the ‘win’ for
the organization as well. Contributors, have this ‘win-win’
orientation – they act such that they win, as well as others
win.
11. Contributors are ‘design’ oriented
By contributor we mean someone who
keeps the goals of the organization at the center and still
remains creative.
It is not a person who decides to be so
creative that he steps out of bounds and questions
everything – ending up with no strategy. Nor is it someone
who is a blind follower and takes no initiative.
Contributors seem to be those who are
outcome oriented. They are asking where does our
company want to go, and what must happen. They don’t
focus on task or process.
12. A Contributor defines himself differently
from others
If I define myself in terms of ‘what I do’, it locks me up into
structures, hierarchies; into what the world is defining.
While if I start defining myself at a deeper level, in terms
of ‘who am I’, I am able to define myself in ways that give
me meaning, satisfaction, and fulfillment.
In fact, so much of life goes in trying to handle the ‘what I
do’ dimension, that very little time is spent in the ‘who am
I’ dimension of existence.
All fulfillment begins only when I acknowledge this
dimension. Otherwise, there is only acquisition.
14. To become a Contributor …
•There is a need to shift from ‘static’ thinking practices to
‘dynamic’ thinking practices
•Keep ‘vision’ at the center, not ‘activity’
•3 shifts that enable you to move from ‘performing’ to
‘contributing’