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Blog Post 11 - Final Post

This class enhanced a lot of ideas and concepts that were never really taught in a classroom setting. Through the blogs, I was able to reflect on a lot of internship and RSO experiences in a way that I never have before. The various different models for the way people inherently act in organizations or group settings taught me a lot about the structure on how to potentially resolve these issues. It put a lot of these very simple and day to day conflicts and situations in a more methodical light and allowed me to reflect on experiences I once just looked over as failures in projects or bad team members or even bad leadership. This class really allowed me to use a lot of economic principles we learn in other classes as well such as game theory concepts and macroeconomic mathematical concepts. A lot of things learned in previous classes were put into more real life scenarios and situations. My process for doing the blogs and excel homework was pretty consistent after the first week of ...
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Blog Post 10 - Triangle Model

This model in relation to the different types of conflicts we have been addressing is very interesting. I believe in situations when a person is trying to mediate two sides of a situation it must be done in a very reasonable and thought-out way in order to come out with the most successful outcome. I have experienced this in multiple situations both in work and internships as well as in RSOs on campus. Holding a leadership position often puts people in situations where they have to balance out the authoritative aspects with also maintaining a positive relationship with every member of their team. I have talked about my experience in an on-campus consulting organization in a lot of my blog posts because of the amount of real-life experience it has provided for me. My experience in CUBE consulting, an entirely student-run organization has taught me so much about the way organizations run and has provided me examples of a lot of the situations talked about in this class.  A...
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Blog Post 9 - Group Dynamics

Work environments and working in teams often do come with conflicts because of the idea of bringing together different personality and leadership types. The way that different people address problems are different and often the importance of working in a team and understanding each members strengths. I have definitely experienced this during my internship and RSO experiences over the last few years. The most prominent group dynamic conflict I have ever experienced was during my internship last summer. I was working at an Artificial Intelligence Marketing start-up and was in a small team of three and then our manager. Despite being in a small team, there was still room for conflict and different opinions on how we carried out some of the tasks that my manager wanted us to complete. I started my internship around the same time as a new grad full-time employee and as we were both being on-boarded on to the marketing team of the company, I realized our responsibilities would be similar....
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Blog Post 8 - Receiving Discipline

Description: The opposite of the gift-giving model we had been looking at would be to see what the results consist of when one performs worse than their peers and the process of fixing that. I have been in many team settings and have seen people experience consequences for lower performance levels and have also been on the other side of it as a leader and have had to handle giving discipline. This post will allow me to draw on my experiences and focus in on a situation where someone was penalized or disciplined by a supervisor and how each party handled it and grew from it. This post allows us to think beyond what we learned from the articles in the last post and put ourselves in those situations. My most prominent experience of seeing a team member being disciplined is though my professional consulting RSO. CUBE is an organization I have brought up a lot in my posts due to how much relevance it has to the things we write our posts about and learn about. CUBE has a very strict poli...
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Blog Post 7 - Gift Exchange

Description: The articles have an overarching message that human beings have very similar tendencies. They are caring towards each other and naturally want to share except when there is an increase in competition and a decrease in supply. This is when a more self centered mindset comes into play and people's actions reflect that. The innate reaction people have in a competitive environment is to protect themselves and make sure that they can benefit in some way or another. The articles were very enjoyable and they had such interesting examples of situations that display this mentality of sharing and altruism. Children are innocent and a good way of observing what natural reactions of humans can potentially be and seeing the different instances of whether the children split the marbles or take what they see, is a very tangible example of a larger perspective on behaviors. The transfer of goods or gift exchange is technically considered a voluntary act but is natural in some situ...
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Blog Post 6 - Income Management

I am currently studying Economics and am a part of one RSO on campus to further my career experiences and abilities as I graduate. I wanted to study Economics because I have a great interest in the business industry as well as the mathematical aspects of the real world and the economy of large businesses. I applied and got into a non-profit student run consulting organization called CUBE Consulting where we work with local start-ups and help them build marketing strategies and financial models for long term growth. I talked to a lot of friends and family who were in the business industry and they recommended me try out consulting as a profession and I found this organization to be a perfect fit for me to grow and learn more. I started off as a consultant and then applied and became a project manager. This position has prepared me a lot for what is to come as a potential career as a consultant in the real world. My first internship after my sophomore year was at a biotechnology compa...
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Blog Post 5 - Connecting the Dots

(1) There are definitely themes from the different posts that connect together and tie in concepts that we are learning from lecture. Each post had an aspect of the economy and the dynamic of organizations but allowed us to reflect on our experiences and life stories. From organizational changes to opportunistic behavior to transfer pricing, the concepts all had relevance to the economy of organizations. These concepts are all simple in the sense that they apply to our lives and things that we experience at the most basic level of organizations that we are a part of. (2) The ways that the posts correlated to the course themes as whole is seen through the excel homework and the posts together. The excel homework goes over the concepts in a problem solving way where as the prompts for each post take those mathematical methods and develop them as more overarching themes. When I first approached each prompt, I did not fully understand the connection to the course overall since they were...
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