Discuss the following:
We have four members in my group. A girl from Mongolia whose name is NG, she is very good at writing, and Hanna, a girl form Vietnam, she study so hard and always push the group to do so changes of the poster to make it better. Well, we have one more guy from India, his name is Rohan, he always spend the less time on the study but the better result he got. In this group project, my work is to select which topic we are going to talk and make the poster.
As we know each other as team members, I founded a chat group on WhatsApp for us to discuss the studies. And we had few group meeting before everything is done and tried to select which topic to do. The first meeting, we decided to do leadership, because this topic has the more materials on website, and I had learned Organizational Behavior in my Diploma study, and i did leadership assignment in that course, so I think it will be much easier. That was the first meeting, and we made a decision. After the meeting, I go back home and did some search of leadership, and download some materials of it.
I was about to write something on leadership in the second day, but i was told by my members that they want to change the topic into culture. Which means all my research can not be used for this project, but they gave me a good reason ”the other teams also doing leadership, we need to do something different to get better result.” Well, in order to get better result of this project, we can do this. So we changed it into culture.
As we were doing the culture, we found that culture is a simple topic. We need to do something attractive, so we made a change again. This time we change into the impact of communication. Finally, we did not do any more changes and finish the essay on time. After the essay has been done, me and Rohan is supposed to do the poster. I am kind of good at Photo-shop, so I think the poster is quiet easy for me.
I spend one hour to do the poster and got a nice poster, I was so exciting and wanted to share it to my members. So i sent it to the group chat, and they were satisfied with my work. I thought my poster is done, so i started to do my another assignment. But I got the massages from the girls and they said they want me to do something new and change the original one, i was shocked and i just take the suggestions and did the changes, another one hour has gone, my new poster was done. I sent it to them again, and i thought that one must be accept by them and i don’t need to do any changes. Yup, they appreciate my work at first and say it looks good. But they asked me to do a new one in the second day, the only reason is to make it better. Of course, i want to get a better result of it, so did some changes again, and this one is the final, we are not going to do any changes and we think it’s the best work because we spent so much time and tried so much to make it.
During this group project, we met some problems, we had different views on one topic since four of us comes from four different countries. In this situation, all my members try to explain our own idea and try to understand the others. As a leader of this group, I spend times to talk to my members, and share our information on time. I need to thank all my members of all the support and their works. I have learned how to organize a group and how to talk to members which comes from different countries.
The individual written assignment will take the form of individual reflection upon some aspect of your personal experience of management and organisations.
Throughout the module, and from your previous educational and work experiences, you will be exposed to various activities associated with Organisations and People, such as being recruited, managing employees, training and development, dealing with work-place relationships etc. Think about how management and organisation behaviour relates to you: have you been an employee; have you been a manager; how have you dealt with work-related conflict, perhaps during group-based assignments at university or work? These are all potential areas for you to reflect on. You are now required to write a reflective essay that
(a) makes use of the relevant theory to provide a detailed analysis of one aspect of your experience of management and organisation behaviour and
(b) considers the implications of your analysis for the effective management of people within organisations.
Answer the following questions:
1. What happened to me eg during a job interview, training session, appraisal meeting, or during group work? Give brief details of the context.
2. What worked well/not so well? Why might this have happened? What did I learn? What would I do differently next time?
3. What theories of management can explain what happened?
4. What could line managers and/or Human Resource professionals do to ensure things (continue to) work well in future and/or prevent such problems?
For example, your reflective essay may address one of the following topics:
1. A management training and development session
2. A performance review with your supervisor/line manager
3. A grievance with a colleague
4. Being selected for a talent development programme
5. Conflict within your group (at university or work organisation)
6. Cross-generational working
7. Issues surrounding group leadership/management (or a lack thereof!)
8. The impact of culture on group work
You need not be constrained by this list and should focus on a topic that you are interested in studying (and writing about) in detail.
A high quality reflective essay will involve:
• Meeting the terms of reference (objectives a and b)
• Excellent presentation and layout (style and structure)
• The ability to undertake constructive/honest self-reflection (openness, clarity and realism of reflective critique)
• The ability to analyse and provide explanations, linking to relevant literature
• An overall grasp and understanding of the processes involved.