Friday, May 24, 2013

Army and 'order'

Organisations sometimes need outside help to better run them.

Some appoint consultants, others commission studies to find flaws in the way things are done and then look to changing procedures.

But when Indian Army wants to speed up the process of selection of officers and make it transparent, it just orders a study. In this case, the Indian Army orders a study by the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmadabad.

Fortunately, the IIM-A was not ordered; The Army chief ordered someone, apparently down the line, to have a study done.

Read this headline on The Hindu website om May 24, 2013 night: Army orders an IIM study to review officer selection.

We don't know what the print edition would prefer as the headline.

It is not the work of the headline writer. The text itself speaks of the order. 

An organisation which depends on order for itself efficiency, no other word would do!

In the second paragraph, however, there is an asked. Seems rather out of step, doesn't it?