I am entering the second week of mid-terms and the work is not letting up. This has been a real busy semester. When you combine it with the fact that this is when you really need to begin ramping up your Internship search, there is little time for anything else.
Last week, I completed two exams (Managerial Accounting and Marketing) and my small group handed in a detailed Case Study for Financial Accounting. This week its the Financial Accounting mid-term and my small group have two minor and one detailed Case Study due.
If that wasn't enough, my small group has two 10-20 page projects due at the beginning of March. For those interested about the projects one is for Organizational Behavior and the other for Marketing. For OB, we are examining a the motivational factors of employees in a company department whose numbers suggest there is a reduction in productivity. The goal is to identify the main factors that may contribute to this productivity decline through interviews and surveys and then make recommendations in a report. For Marketing, we are helping a technology startup with a disruptive technology create a marketing strategy. Specifically, we are trying to determine the best marketing messages to use to attract the innovators and early adopters who tend to embrace this type of technology before it becomes refined for mass market consumption. The projects are interesting, but the time lines and workloads may force the types of quality compromises that I hate.
But in the end, it could be argued that this is what an MBA is about. Overloading students with work (not necessarily highly difficult work) and let them weed themselves out by demonstrating who is best at prioritizing and assigning their scarce resources to the work that will give the most benefit. While top notch work is desirable for all, sometimes the paybacks will only justify a reasonable effort. At the end of the day I am trying to balance school, extra-curricular activities, a job search, and my family life (and not necessarily in that order). I think at certain times during the year, some things will have to take the backseat.
That being said, I am still holding my bi-weekly poker game. It is a great networking tool (for me and Lindsey) and a great outlet for some fun. No matter the workload, there always needs to be time for fun...
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Re: Motivational Factors
I just read a couple of books that address this exact issue and likewise approached it from surveys (Gallup polls).
I gave a couple of books to AV-Base two weeks ago as a gift. One of them was called "First, Break All The Rules" and it talked about exactly that, the motivational factors for good performance in a company.
Another book that I just finished was called "Vital Friends." It's main point is that people work most effectively within a company if they have developed a "best friend" at work. Same approach, research based on Gallup surveys.
Future Shop uses annual employee surveys and both these topics are specifically targeted
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