Meredith and Prof. Powley have helped me get on track. With this learning plan I have become more focused. I would like to continue a relationship with them as I feel they are both excellent resources .

Ethics are “standards” of human conduct, similar to morals which are developed by ones culture. Society, family help one to form their ethics. People usually will have very different ethics dependant on the environment. Everyone has some type of ethics but is any of them right or wrong? Who’s to tell?

The article we read dealt with ethics in the workplace. I would say if you have “high” ethics you will bring them to the workplace. I think what happens in the workforce is people sometimes are more accountable for their behavior but if they think they can get away with it they will try anything. For example the use of the internet at work. Some think you should not use it at all unless it relates to company business but everyone does it. Is this unethical? Many belief no, unless you are using it to view pron.

The exercise we did in class showed how as a class we were in relationship with others, what it did not show is how ethical we really were.

The Total Rewards program did work and contiues to work for Harrah.
I am sure they do not continue to invest as much money as they did in the begining but it did achieve of its main goals.

Both Winn, and Loveman are still at Harrah, this alone shows their Commitment to the organization and its people

This article jumped starts my thinking to branding myself. I am at a point in my life were I am unsure of my further at the University and I need something to fall back on. The person that really sparked my interest is Yvonne White, the event planner. This is something I love to do and I would be interested in starting a new career doing this. I have emailed her for some helpful tips. The article gave the six steps and I have already done step one and step two working on step three and four. I have done several weddings as a wedding planner but I am looking to expand doing other events. I had hope we would discuss this article more.

Today we discussed groups and teams and their goals. Our team is in the several of the stages of team life. We began in the forming but soon moved through the storming, norming and performing stages. I believe the class works as a whole better in their groups than individual. If you notice at the beginning of the class the energy level seemed low there were a few people interacting with the Professor but after we broke out into our groups the energy level seemed to increase.

The five dysfunctions of a team article help to understand how trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results all work hand in hand. The main thing is for teams to understand what it takes to be successful and how to avoid problems. This handout and the class discussion helped one in learning how to deal with this dysfunctions if the were to creep into ones team

This is an assignment that could be a lot of fun. We were assigned to a group who for the most part did not know get other. This was both exciting and scary! It always scary to take on something new. Our group is a very diverse group and a good representation of the Case student environment. We accepted our challenged and plugged into getting to know each other by interviewing one another. We found that even though most members are very different, we are very similar. All but one of us would rather work by themselves, but yet when deadlines are given we decided to make all decisions as a group. Are “leader” is the only one who “likes” to work in groups. We determined early on her goal would be to keep the group moving..

Our first task was to come up with a group name one suggest was made and everyone agreed it was a good one. Our group was pumped up and motivated to be the first time to get the name Ritz- Carlton and we did ! We celebrated at our first official meeting and we were ready for our first challenge the budget and our business plan.

After meeting we decided we needed some questions answered before we could move forward.

Our group realized we were over thinking this process. We discussed there should have been a little more instruction before we had to turn in our first assignment. We realize in the real world we may not be able to ask questions , but we also realize we would have more “concrete” data. This first process frustrated us a little but now we have the hang of things and we are ready.

This is an assignment that could be a lot of fun. We were assigned to a group who for the most part did not know get other. This was both exciting and scary! It always scary to take on something new. Our group is a very diverse group and a good representation of the Case student environment. We accepted our challenged and plugged into getting to know each other by interviewing one another. We found that even though most members are very different, we are very similar. All but one of us would rather work by themselves, but yet when deadlines are given we decided to make all decisions as a group. Are “leader” is the only one who “likes” to work in groups. We determined early on her goal would be to keep the group moving..

Our first task was to come up with a group name one suggest was made and everyone agreed it was a good one. Our group was pumped up and motivated to be the first time to get the name Ritz- Carlton and we did ! We celebrated at our first official meeting and we were ready for our first challenge the budget and our business plan.

After meeting we decided we needed some questions answered before we could move forward.

Our group realized we were over thinking this process. We discussed there should have been a little more instruction before we had to turn in our first assignment. We realize in the real world we may not be able to ask questions , but we also realize we would have more “concrete” data. This first process frustrated us a little but now we have the hang of things and we are ready.