Wei-Ting Lin's Online Journal http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/ My Thoughts on the Discourse en-us Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:18:44 EST Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:18:44 EST wei-ting.lin@case.edu wei-ting.lin@case.edu http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Movable Type v3.121 MGMT250 and 251 http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/10/mgmt250_and_251 Throughout the whole semester, I have learned many concepts and useful techniques for me to build some of management knowledge... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/10/mgmt250_and_251 MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:18:44 EST Throughout the whole semester, I have learned many concepts and useful techniques for me to build some of management knowledge and skills. I think the learning plan was a good way to understand myself better and to release my potential. I am looking forward to the MGMT 251 class to learn more knowledge about how to manage people because it is usually an important component and a difficult practice within a company. I had some experiences which I got the chances to experience some real practice with my father that I could sit next to him in the meeting with the employees. Because of this great opportunity, it made me want to learn more knowledge in the field of management.

]]> Learning Plan feedback http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/10/learning_plan_feedback I submitted my learning plan part II on December 1st to our teaching assistance Tracey Messer and I got her... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/10/learning_plan_feedback MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:11:54 EST I submitted my learning plan part II on December 1st to our teaching assistance Tracey Messer and I got her feedback on Thursday and met with her after class to discuss more details. She gave me some useful feedback that I was not clear sometimes how my sub-goals were related to my goals, and she also told me that I needed to read the handout carefully because there were many things that I missed in the paper. However, she said my overall structure was not bad and I just needed to improve some detailed things.

]]> Last day http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/08/last_day We had our last management 250 class today, and everyone got to express their feelings of this class. Just I... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/08/last_day MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:46:32 EST We had our last management 250 class today, and everyone got to express their feelings of this class. Just I mentioned in the class, my high points in the semester are Resume workshop, Mock Interview, and HR Simulation. Resume workshop and Mock Interview made me start to think about my future career, and I think it is a good time to start at sophomore year because that way we will have more time to prepare. Moreover, I also like the HR Simulation because we got to have some actual experiences about how to manage people before we go out to the real world. I would like to recognize my team that we always work together and share our opinions and thoughts together. It had been a great experience to work with all of them. Also I would like to specially recognize Jen, our team leader, because she always came prepared, and I would not know what was going without her. She was doing a really good job as being a team leader. In addition, I would also like to thank Professor Powley, Piderit and Tracey. I think this is a great class overall.

]]> HR Simulation Second Year Performance http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/08/hr_simulation_second_year_performance Our second year performance turned out to be good, although there were still some difficulties existed. I believe it was... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/08/hr_simulation_second_year_performance MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:33:44 EST Our second year performance turned out to be good, although there were still some difficulties existed. I believe it was the sixth quarter that we faced to have to deal with the negative vacancy number for the seventh quarter. Our team did not face this situation before, so we decided to eliminiate some employees but not all of them. However, our morale and productivity went down dramatically in the next quarter's report, and it was also the first time for our team to have the morale below the average industry. We were discussing that at least we did not eliminate all of them; otherwise, we could not imagine how bad would the morale be. Therefore, when it came to decide for the eight quarter that had negative vacancy number as well, we decide not to fire any of the employees, and it turned out that our morale was still well above the average. One thing that I learned from this HR Simulation was that we had to work together as a team that could get different feedbacks from every of the team members, and also to improve or find a beeter way from the past experiences.

]]> Tom Mendola Case http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/06/tom_mendola_case Today in the class we discussed about the Tom Mendola case in which the company should keep Tom or not.... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/12/06/tom_mendola_case MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:36:11 EST Today in the class we discussed about the Tom Mendola case in which the company should keep Tom or not. I personally think we should keep him and just to give him one more chance. He is still young, and may not realize the responsibility he has upon his family. However, the manager and supervisor should warn him that this is his last chance so that he will not take adventage of it. The machine shop foreman should be the one who tells him company's decision on him, because he was the one who noticed he had the problems that he was tardy and absent from doing his job, so he would understand the whole situation better.

]]> HR Simulation Annual Report http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/11/03/hr_simulation_annual_report We found out that everything was going well upon meeting our goals. We basically used the same strategy throughout the... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/11/03/hr_simulation_annual_report MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:50:59 EST We found out that everything was going well upon meeting our goals. We basically used the same strategy throughout the year to reach the goals that we set at the beginning of the first quarter. Also we compared our result with the average industry, and the result came out great. We then progressed to discuss about the annual report, and we talked about the questions together and everyone gave their opinions. It was a great team work that everyone did a good job.

]]> Jonah Creighton Case http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/11/02/jonah_creighton_case After reading Jonah Creighton case, I personally felt that Jonah did not use a proper way to bring this potential... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/11/02/jonah_creighton_case MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:29:36 EST After reading Jonah Creighton case, I personally felt that Jonah did not use a proper way to bring this potential discrimination up. He set a meeting with Gordon instead of meeting with Diane Ford, because she was the one who was in charge with contacting international units. Moreover, he also went up to talk to Garret, director of stratefic planning and the highest ranking black person in the company, and was satisfied with his reply and support. In my opinion, I think he should contact the managers or directors of British unit directly instead of sitting there and trying to ask someone in the company. He also think that he wanted to find our what Coulding-Henson's competitors were doing in regard to minority placement, because he could then have ideas of competitors would do if the company does not hire Martin Bank. For example, the competitors might asked Martin Bank to work for their companies if we did not hire him, and if he actually had a good ability, then we might lose profits and let our competitors took this opportunity and helped them to gain thier profits. These were just few questions that came to my mind after I read though the case, but I also comment few ways on solving the problems

]]> Learning Plan grade http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/11/02/learning_plan_grade We got our learning plan back yesterday, and I had some questions in mind while looking at the comments. First,... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/11/02/learning_plan_grade MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:02:27 EST We got our learning plan back yesterday, and I had some questions in mind while looking at the comments. First, there is a grading based on creativity and imagination, and I got zero in that section. I did not understand what kind of creativity do we need to put into the paper. Second, generally, the score was low and only few people got the score of 7 and 8, and because this first part of learning plan is forty percent of the learning plan grade, and I need to get one hundred percent in order to get an A on the learning plan part. There are people even got one or two points out of eight. I just thought the grading was kind of harsh and not easy to keep on track with.

]]> team work http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/25/team_work My team always work together and meet once a week on Tuesday afternoon. We always go over the budget first,... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/25/team_work MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:11:16 EST My team always work together and meet once a week on Tuesday afternoon. We always go over the budget first, and decide how much money we want to put on each of the sections. We always discuss and decide it together and work on different opinions. We then discuss our decision for the incident based on everyone's opinion and write the decision document. We are willing to meet our goals and also with the indistry average. My team leader always come prepared and is willing to show her leadership.

]]> Interviewing for Learning Plan http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/19/interviewing_for_learning_plan While knowing that we had to interview someone that was related to my future career, I set an appointment with... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/19/interviewing_for_learning_plan MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:00:28 EST While knowing that we had to interview someone that was related to my future career, I set an appointment with Vivian Huang, who is currently the vice president of the private banking department of USB bank. She basically provides clients with investement stratefy based on personal requirements, a detailed portfolio analysis, and systematic monitoring. One of the challenges that Vivian faces is continually changing market forecasts. For her, customer communication is very important, and she must update her clients with new information and periodic report of their investments as often as is necessary. After talking to Vivian about mutual funds and investments, I feel that I am even more interested in a finance-related career. I hope to set up another meeting with together discuss her job and finance-related occupation overall. This learning plan interview gave me a good opportunity to see the real-life application of the concepts and made me want to learn more.

]]> team experience http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/06/team_experience We talked about the characteristics of a team and how does it function in today's lecture. We also talked about... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/06/team_experience MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:32:47 EST We talked about the characteristics of a team and how does it function in today's lecture. We also talked about the five dysfuntions of team, it includes inattention to results,
avoidance of accountability, lack of commitment, fear of conflict, absence of trust. In my opinion, a team is an unit entity that every team member should work together in order to acheive their goals. Each of team members should interact and communicate with each other, and also listen to others opinions and comments.

]]> team project http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/04/team_project Our team had the first meeting after my five thirty class today. We basically just went over the budget form... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/04/team_project MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:49:03 EST Our team had the first meeting after my five thirty class today. We basically just went over the budget form and incident D together. Each of our members participate in the discussions and all the decision makings. We all felt very good about our team and everyone seems to understnad everyone in our group must need to work together in order to acheive the goal.

]]> MBTI and strong Interest Inventory test http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/03/mbti_and_strong_interest_inventory_test We did the MBTI test for MGMT 250 class at the begining of the semester and also got our result... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/10/03/mbti_and_strong_interest_inventory_test MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:22:16 EST We did the MBTI test for MGMT 250 class at the begining of the semester and also got our result back. In addition, I want to know myself better, so I went to take another strong Interest Inventory test and made the appointment with one of the college counselors, Chris. My reported MBTI type is INFJ, and she explained me more details about the characteristic of INFJ. I think the result is correct, because it describes me really well. Also, I am interested in business-related future career, and the strong Interest Inventory test showed lots of business-related opportunities. After I talked with her, I knew better about myself and also my interested-career field.

]]> Mock Interview http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/09/18/mock_interview I found that the mock interview was a very good practice for me since I have not had many interview... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/09/18/mock_interview MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:47:30 EST I found that the mock interview was a very good practice for me since I have not had many interview experiences before. The experience allowed me to see my weatknesses and what I need to improve as well as my strength and what I can continue to enhance and develop. The comments that the interviewer gave were very helpful and I will be applying them in the future.

]]> Working on the resume http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/09/11/working_on_the_resume The extra session on Thursday about resume workshop was a great idea to do so. I found more things that... http://blog.case.edu/wei-ting.lin/2005/09/11/working_on_the_resume MGMT250 case cwru Case Western Case Western Reserve University Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:31:12 EST The extra session on Thursday about resume workshop was a great idea to do so. I found more things that I can put in my resume, and prepared before we actually run into a interview.

I like this MGMT250 class, because it makes me learn a lot of things and be prepared for the future. By doing the resume and cover letter, it prepared me for seeking a summer intern.

However, because english is my second language, sometimes I do have hard time in speaking english. It is fine if talking with friends, but if I have to make a speech or interview, I sometimes get scared and nervous. Therefore, I think the Mock Interview, which will be held this Friday, is a good idea for me to practice and have actual interview experience before seeking a real job.

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