One of the most important concepts I learned in Commerce 292 was the importance of diversity within organizations and the positive externalities that are associated with it. Many concepts including generational differences, principle and attitudes, as well as values are extremely important not only to make a corporation, but to the diversity of this organization. These aspects directly have an influence on the employees of an organization and these different concepts give the different employees a different perspective which is extremely valuable to the organization.

Corporations should make sure that their work environment is as diverse as possible in order to bring different points of views all across the world. For example the different organizational groups in my class have a wide variety of individuals that come from many different places across the world. Some of us are domestic student,s while other students are international students and we all have different hobbies, opinions, and interests. We come together in order to bring different perspectives on whichever problem we face.

This makes us easier to work together which enhances our teamwork and it makes us more accountable on each other in order to complete the task of finishing our projects. I believe these experiences in the Commerce 292 class room can be directly applied to real world applications to the business world and I believe diversity is an invaluable asset that every single corporation should consider.

I believe that employees should bring up this aspect of diversity if it is not extremely apparent in the organization as I believe that through the increased teamwork, the organization will become much more efficient which in turn will increase their bottom line profitability.

In high school I played on the volleyball team in grade 10 where I was disciplined by a very tough coach. We had 4 practises a week, and every time you were late you had to run 15 laps around the school. Although I respected the coach like he was my father, a lot of my other teammates resented him and they started skipping practises. This only infuriated my coach even more and subsequently, we lost our team cohesion and we did not make it very far in to the season. The following year, many of the players that previously played did not come out again and I wondered if there was a better approach the coach could have used in order to teach us.

In Commerce 292, we had a case study project in which we had to analyze a movie and identify any organizational behavior issues. Our groups movie was “Coach Carter” and many of the teachings he used was similar to my high school coach. He disciplined the players on a regular basis with drills that were extremely intense. As a result this caused a lot of tension between the players and himself. He, like my coach in high school was a transformational leader in which he tried to inspire the players to take the game more seriously. However, a different concept that I learned in class could have been more applicable if he used it. Both coaches would have been better in coaching if they used a charismatic approach in which they rewarded the players by intrinsically motivating them and focusing on the positives they contribute instead of what the did wrong. Punishments should not always be used an I believe this alternative approach would have been much more effective.