IEMS Journal of Management Research

Volume: 11 Issue: 2

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

DR. TATYARAO LAHANE AND THE GOVERNMENT EYE CARE SERVICE - THE INTRAPRENEURSHIP QUESTION

Dr. Ramakant Kulkarni1, Dr. Mukund R. Dixit2

1 Professor, Chetan Business School, Hubballi, India

2 Independent Management Researcher and Facilitator, Dharwad, India

Year: 2023, Page: 5-18,

Received: Oct. 23, 2023 Accepted: Nov. 27, 2024 Published: Dec. 1, 2023

Abstract

There is enough literature on entrepreneurship covering startups and the success and failures, the resources mobilization, product ideas, nurturing the set up and scaling, expansion, diversification and sell off and spinoff as well as well as failed ventures. Material is available on entrepreneurs sharing their success and hardships and how they withstood the demands on time, resources and marketing struggle to emerge as successful. While the stories of entrepreneurs are motivating and prove to be a lesson yet the success also is driven by the dedicated people that work for organization promoted by them.

To meet the demands of growth the entrepreneur should appoint people who can go to the market and get orders for the products of the enterprise.

The people who work with entrepreneur with the entrepreneurial mind set for the success of organization are intrapreneuers. Not much literature is available on this subject.

The organization’s rules, regulations, bureaucracy, systems, freedom of expression and experimentation, tolerance for failure drive the people to work. The following possible scenarios emerge -

  • People involve in the work and contribute.
  • People work only as per rules and avoid the risk of failures being questioned.
  • People test the environment and proceed as per the situations.
  • The environment in Govt and private organizations differs. The working systems in Govt organizations are driven by close compliance to rule, regulations and bureaucracy. Working in Govt organization and still contributing as an intrapreneur is a challenging task.

The present study has attempted to trace a case of Ophthalmic surgeon who served the Govt Hospital and succeeded in serving the eye care needs in an effort to eradicate needless blindness in parts of Maharashtra.

This case chronicles the experience of Dr. Tatyarao Lahane, an eye surgeon in the Maharashtra Government Service, as he overcame, innovatively, the lacuna of the government set up and the rural health care context to perform 1,65,000 cataract surgeries in his 35 years of service. It delineates his initiatives to counter ignorance in the rural context, improve capacity utilization, motivate his staff to organize eye camps in remote areas, conduct surgeries in leprosy ashrams, introduce new technologies and upgrade the government medical educational institutions in Maharashtra. Despite kidney transplantation at the early stage of his career he had worked daily for 15 hours and not taken a single day off for personal work.

Keywords: Intrapreneuership, Organization, Rules, Systems, Surgeon, Hospital.

References

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KULKARNI R., DIXIT M. DR. TATYARAO LAHANE AND THE GOVERNMENT EYE CARE SERVICE - THE INTRAPRENEURSHIP QUESTION. IEMSJMR.2023;11(2):5-18

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