Thursday, December 1, 2011
Exercise Discussion
On Monday we discussed the exercise we did about two weeks ago. I thought a lot of good points were brought up. The way the exercise was run, a lot of good faith was needed on the part of each group, and in the end the bottom group had the most power. They actually didn't really need the middle or bottom group at all. They could have just negotiated without the top group. I think it's a descent representation of a company. The top group negotiates with other companies. The middle group gets the specs from the top group and delegates to the bottom group. This way all the bottom group has to worry about is working. The middle group makes sure the bottom group is taken care of and the top group deals with the customers. My only problem with the exercise is that there wasn't enough time to do everything.
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I think the representation that you pointed out is an interesting idea. I think that it does a good job at explaining how a company today is run. I agree how you said all the bottom group has to worry about is working but I think a lot of problems are involved with this group. They are the ones that are doing a majority of the work, but tend to be left out. Dr. Goates applied this concept when he displayed the group members on the projector. The bottom group was the smallest and most crammed section.
ReplyDeleteI agree the bottom group has do the majority of the work, but tends to be left out. This was certainly apparent in our class representation because I think the bottom group had to do the most but then hardly got any goates bucks by the end of it.
ReplyDeleteAlthough a real business if far more complicated, I think the exercise was a good example to show how a business operates. Being a part of the NMBL gave me an outside viewpoint, Which I enjoyed because I got an outside look at the distribution of power and how work was delegated within the MRC.
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