Monthly Archives: April 2017

Put right people in the right place

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After read my classmate Jovi Lam’s blog culture leadership. From my perspective, I strongly agree the point which is hire right people in the right position. Because a good leader will help the company to stimulate other employees’ potential and maximize their output. For example, a good temper teacher will have better leadership when he/she treats students in schools, but a serious polite officer will have better leadership when he/she treats prisoners in prisons. On the other hand, if a good temper police officer is a good temper when he/she treat prisoners, they probably will laugh hard and disrespect the officer, if a serious teacher does not want to have fun with his/her students, then the students probably will not like the class. Same as in work area, if companies put right people on the right spot, then they will receive better outcome.

According to Organizational Behavior by Langton et al. (2016) Leadership defines the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals(p380).  Meanwhile, according to House’s charismatic leadership theory , followers make attributions of heroic or extraordinary leadership abilities when they observe certain behaviors, and tend to give these leaders power(p389).

Clearly, different positions need different types of leader to deal with different things and employees, the point is under ethical rules, try to maximize the best outcome for companies and try to get the best results for companies. Employees will love to follow a great leader if they believe the leader will lead them to succeed.

  1. Langton, Robbins, Judge, Organizational Behaviour, 7th edition, p.380  p. 389
  2. https://blogs.ubc.ca/jovilam/2017/02/05/culture-leadership/

 

UBC Men’s Basketball Team culture

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Kevin Hanson, head coach of the UBC Men’s basketball team. He has been coaching UBC for about 17 years. He made a lot of progress and obtained many accolades at UBC building tremendous value to this program. From the players  coaches, alumni and the rest of the UBC family, respect is always demonstrated. We push and care about each other on the court and off the court. For example, after seeing our coach hug a player after missing two free throws changed my perspective towards him and basketball, as they could have won the game. I gained a lot of respect for my coach as this shows what our team culture is truly about. Sometimes basketball is not just about winning, we can learn a lot of experience and life skills under a successful program. During team practices, we try to be the best we can be and try to win national title for our program. Moreover, we are not only compete to win games but we also care about each others, we want to each other do well in the future and giving back to the program. Helping each other to be the best we can and go hard on each other on the court because we know life will not be easy as well. This is our team culture.

According to Organizational Behavior by Langton et al. (2016) Henry Mintzberg said, “Culture is the soul of the organization—the beliefs and values, and how they are manifested. I think of the structure as the skeleton, and as the flesh and blood. And culture is the soul that holds the thing together and gives it life force. (p348)

Under UBC MBB’s value and our team culture, we believe doing little things will matter, such as learning, eating and training. This is how we become a better team and stronger individuals, always appreciate people’s support and compete level on the court.. Through many practices, I understand learning is a daily experience, but it also is a life mission. Not only about basketball, but I also understand all these things put together will help me to become a better person and better athlete.

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  1. Langton, Robbins, Judge, Organizational Behaviour, 7th edition, p. 204.
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Effective team and do your part

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I did storm the wall with the special Olympic British Columbia last week. Strom the wall is a traditional event at UBC since a couple decades ago. The goal is developing UBC students team work skill and sportsmanship to solve and complete different sport tasks together as a team, such as swimming, running, biking, and climb the wall. Special Olympics BC programs help over thousands people with intellectual disabilities celebrate personal achievement and help improve the confidence, skills, and friendship.

 

As a student athlete, I realized that not only our athletes try to represent our school to compete the highest level in the country but also these special Olympians try to be the best they can be. In order to help each other to complete this event, three UBC athletes partner with one special Olympians, we tried to maximize each person’s strength to finish this event. My group has 4 persons, the special Olympian is good at swimming, and one guy is on the track team, one guy is on the soccer team, and I’m on the basketball team, so the special Olympian did the swimming part, other two guys did the running part and I did the bike part. At the end, we did the climb the wall together. We believe each other and encourage each other during the event. We finished quicker than other groups and we enjoy this event a lot.

 

 

From this event, we can easily understand this connect with OB. According to Organizational Behavior by Langton et al. (2016), “Effective teams have members who believe in the team’s capabilities and are committed to a common plan and purpose, have an accurate shared mental model of what is to be accomplished, share specific team goals, maintain a manageable level of conflict, and show a minimal degree of social loafing.”(p268)

 

 

We try to maximize each person’s strength to finish a group goal, this is same as playing sports on the court/ field and even in the business areas as well, understand each members strength and maximize the best effort in order to get successful result. Team work is a life skill and this is very important to us, especially maximize each members’ strength in order to get the best outcome is not easy. However, once we can understand the concept and use it in real life, it will guide us become better people and more success in our lives.

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  1. Langton, Robbins, Judge, Organizational Behaviour, 7th edition, p. 204.
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