W illiamson-like critique We are already in December and I am writing my last blog post. This was my favorite part of this class because it helped to think about yourself in your working life and to reflect on the actions of your manager and team leader. This class was special because deadlines were very soft and the attendance at class was not required. I really liked that we had soft deadlines because you don’t have the pressure to submit a lot of homework on one day. Moreover, it improves the quality of your work because you choose a time to write the blog post, excel homework or quiz when you are really concentrated and have time and not on days when you have to submit a lot of homework. Furthermore, I enjoyed writing the blog posts and when you don’t have such a pressure with the deadline you see more the part you like about it. I think in sum the class can have much better results with teaching the class in this way because every student can search for a good mom
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Triangle model In the following blog post I would like to write about the triangle model. This describes when two principals don’t see eye to eye on what counts on good performance by the agent. I could recognize this situation at my work in an insurance company. At the one hand, we had the manager. He was located in a different building and my team leader only had meetings with him every month because he was very busy. On the other side of the triangle model was the works council. All of these mentioned parties have different interests, and sometimes this can result in problems. These three parties try to meet as much as they can and discussed the topics of the company. For the manager, it is most important that the returns are high and that the company is constantly growing. Moreover, for the manager it is necessary that the company works on every contract very fast, thus employees have a deadline to finish a contract of a client within three working days. Otherwise it
Conflict in work environment In this following blog post I will describe a conflict situation at my work. First of all, it is to mention that when different people with a different age and different background work together then there is potential for conflict. The bureau at my work was very huge. Every department had only one room and in every room were about 50 people. This raises the potential for conflicts at work. For example, choosing the music can create conflict because all ages have different preferences. Another example is that some people’s working style are loud and others silent workers. One of the biggest conflicts at work happened between two colleagues who were the same age. Both of them were around 60 years old and very close to retirement. For that reason, they didn’t care what they say in team meetings because they already signed their retirement contracts and act very intuitively how they thought it is right in the situation. Moreover, they were not a
Receiving discipline at work First I would like to start to talk about punishment in organizations. In my experience, discipline had never had a positive effect because people feel attacked and are not productive at work anymore. The workers are only thinking about the punishment and not on work. For example, we had a team meeting and got a lot of negative feedback although everybody tried their best. The result of this was that all members of the department were angry after the meeting and reflected on what happened together. Everybody felt treated unfair and they didn’t continue their work because all their thoughts were focused on the negative feedback. They felt like the team leader didn’t see the effort in their work and as a reaction they did nothing productive. In comparison, we also had good team meetings where we got presented good results and the progress we made. Moreover, the team leader specified what was working well, which also raised motivation. She als
Team production with gift exchange In the following blog post I would like to talk about gift exchange in group work in university. At my business university in Vienna teachers have a main focus on this type of work because they think that it is very important for our future working life to work with different people together and learn how to coordinate. I had last semester 8 different groups at the same time, which was very hard to coordinate, but now I have a lot of experience in working together in groups. It is very interesting to see that in a short time period everybody finds their position in the group. Quickly there is a leader who makes a facebook or whats app group and someone decides which work every student will do. For me gift exchange is defined as giving something to a person or a group for example effort or time and not expecting to get back the same. My favorite group was last semester in my human resource management class. Here I want
Future income risk At the end of high school, you are at a point in your life where you have to decide what to do in the future. I went in an art high school with focus on media design and photography. I chose this school because my biggest hobby was art and I thought that you should do what you like because then you are always good at it. Going to that school was a lot of fun and I liked my decision. We went to a lot of photography galleries, museums and learned how to do pictures professionally. Moreover, we produced the photos by ourselves in a darkroom. I learned a lot in this field but after visiting this school it was clear for me that I will keep art as a hobby but will not spend my future life with art and photography. One other reason why I haven’t chosen to go to an art university was that my teachers were not able to have fixed incomes with art so they had to become teachers. In this school, I also had a good economic professor. This was the reason I chose to g
Reflection Post I began this class in the end of August with my first blog post. Now we have October, and I have already written about five different topics related to my Economic in Organization class. The first blog post was about my alias Claudia Goldin, who is one of ten most influential female economists in the world and a professor at Harvard University. The second post was about my experience with organizations in a change process. I wrote about my previous employer “Bank Austria” in Vienna and about their process of building a new headquarters, especially about the change process. The next blog post was about the effect of team leader’s behavior in organizations. I wrote about my employer in an insurance company before I went to my exchange semester. In this blog post I wrote about my team leader and the problems in our department. The next topic was quite similar to the blog post before. I wrote about the team structure in my first job. The biggest dif