November 30, 2005
Overall view of MGMT 250
Having analyzed my initial opinion from the course and at this point in time, almost reaching the end of the semester, I can differentiate both perspectives. Of course, the one I have now, is much more valuable because I can think about the course after having gone through it, and I can say that it has not only been interesting from an academic point of view, but from a personal point of view as well. Being used to the Spanish type of lectures and the style or learning in my home university in Madrid, I am so glad of being able to compare both university styles, and it is personaly enriching to keep the positive of both parts, and therefore complementing my open minded learning style.
November 29, 2005
Part I of the learning plan
I wanted to state that in my personal opinion, from my own point of view, it was a lot easier to execute part I of the learning plan than part II. This is, explaining who are you and where are you headed was a lot easier than having to explain how will you get there and what tools or strategies will you use in order to approach your objectives. This, in a way, is completely normal. I guess it is easier to know who you are, and what do you want from life, than how are you actually going to reach it.
Learning Plan
Having handed in the draft of both parts of the Learning Plan, I was hoping I could get a little feedback specially from the goal setting part, because the whole characterization of SMART goals is not an easy task. So after having gone through the constructive feedback we did in the last class between classmates, I felt like I could work a little in my goals, specially in the "specific" part of them. I hope I am able to construct a well organized goal setting part of my learning plan.
HR incident
The incident for this coming week was susceptible to many assumptions that could affect and change the decission form. It was pretty clear that both Chris and Ted should be penalized in some sort of way, but it was unclear if maybe by a written warning or by fireing one of them or both. Then again, I guess these assumptions are what make the big difference of changing the figures in the spread sheet and being over or under the industry average because, in the end, assumptions are what we have been doing since the very bigining of the simulation.
Career Center
Hello everybody,
I wanted to point out that today's class was both interesting and at the same time a little bit missleading. The reason I am saying this is because the hexagon with the different letters was kind of ambiguous. I am sure that a lot of people felt like they could fit in two or even three different letters at the same time. For example, I felt like I fit in the artistic and the enterprise letters at the same time. Anyway, it was interesting to see where we want to see ourselves versus where we best fit in.
November 01, 2005
Maintaining our own motivation in the work place
When situations are not as favorable as they should be or at least as we would like them to be, it is farely easy to break down and loose most of our motivation and therefore our incentives to achieve goals are decreased. In this case, even though our sourrounding is poor and our environment is not appropiate, we still have the personal responsability and the ethics of doing our own job the best way we know how. By doing this, we will contribute to the overall wellness, and in the end, the situation will change because everybody would do the same and this would become a chain of responsability that would safe the lack of commitment in our entity.
Lie or not lie in a Job interview
Everybody who is about to comence or is expecting to have a job interview in a near future, is inevitably going to feel the incredible pressure and stress, which is due to the fact that your are putting yourself in front of a stranger, and trying to sell him/her the idea that you are the person they are looking for. A lot of questions and doubts are traveling inside our heads at that moment, right before entering the room, right before testing your habilities, all these fears arise in the interviewee because he/she knows this will affect his/her future forever. Because of this and many other reasons, fear is bossted and therefore, lack of confidence arises, and lastly the common error of lying leaves us at an undesirable position in fron of our employer.