Archives for the Month of November 2006 on Ki Jung Kim's Online Journal
Feedback
In class on November 8th, the class shared their opinions on feedbacks and learned about effective ways to give and take feedbacks. Before this class, I really haven’t thought carefully about feedbacks. Throughout this class, I learned that positive feedbacks can be helpful in improving good aspects even better and negative feedbacks can be medicine; feedbacks can only be a help in situations. Thinking about negative sides of feedbacks, I found myself not appreciating negative feedbacks in the past, especially on the works that I have put my best effort on. I have been expecting only positive feedbacks. From now on, I should work on accepting negative feedback as well in order to be better.
Dreams and Goal Setting
On November 6th in management class, we had an exercise of discussing our goals and dreams. At first, I found it hard to list 17 dreams on post-it notes, because I thought of dreams as something very vague and hard to achieve. However, after listening to other classmate’s dreams and professor lecture, I realized that dreams can be much more specific. After realizing that, I personally categorized my dreams and goals to short–term and long-term goals. I learned that both short-term and long-term goals are equally important; I saw my short-term dreams as steps towards my lifelong dreams. For example, one of my short-term goals was to graduate from college and one of my long-term dreams was to become a CEO of a company. In order to get my dream job, diploma was initial step to reach the goal. Sitting in the class and looking over my dreams I realized that I was only focusing on short-term goals. In future, I should often have my own time when I can think about my lifelong dream as well.
HR Simulation and annual report
From the results and feedbacks from professor poonamalee on our first annual report, our group found out that we are doing a fine job with our HR simulation. Our company’s two main goals are increasing morale and productivity. We tried hard to improve those; we mainly tried to satisfy our workers. I was glad to see our company’s morale and productivity go up as each quarter went on. Everyone in our group worked very hard to do the best for the company. There were frustrating moments when our plans and strategies didn’t work out the way we wanted it to. However, our team members learned a lot from it. Also, being able to apply management knowledge that we have learned in class, I am truly learning a lot from HR simulation.
Jonah Creighton Case
Jonah Creighton’s case was a very complicated, yet an interesting case. As I read along, I could understand everyone’s perspective. Although I believe what Jonah had done was very ethical, however, the actions that Jonah has taken was ineffective. I personally feel that he should have looked at the situation carefully and tried to convince his supervisor over time through many evidences. Jonah’s job is to find the right fit for each CHAMP recruits. Working oversea is what most of CHAMP recruits desire; however, it might not be the best place for Martin to work at. In my opinion, Martin would be the best fit in the U.S., where discriminations are strongly protected by law. Discrimination at work is very serious and people should address these issues. However, I personally thought Jonah focused too much on seeking his values rather than doing his job for the better good of the company. I believe that personal values are very important yet it should not affect in the profession and work.
Training Method
Learning about various training methods, I realized the importance of training. Many of the training method had both positive and negative aspects. My group presented about training by examples where workers are watched on how they do their job. I thought about some advantages and disadvantages of this method. I actually think that this method works best for me. I like to watch veterans and learn by watching. This method of learning coincides with my LSI result; learning from example works very effectively for me. Training is the starting point of your job, and I personally believe that it’s a foundation of everything in doing your job successfully.