Monthly Archives: February 2017

My first teamwork experience in university

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I didn’t learn much about teamwork from my figh school experience in China but Since I came here, I gradually know the importance of learning it, and my first formal teamwork last term does teach me a lot.

Our group formed by five people and like UBC, it was quite international. We have one Russian girl, two Canadian born Chinese, two Chinese. One common thing about our group is that we inclined to be accord with task-oriented roles. So that we are always easy to enter that flow state. Although now I realize that if there’s a maintenance-role person amont us, our group might have a better relationship. One thing that makes our comm101’s groups better is that we all have one common goal, that is to do better in the group project or case study, whereas in other group work case, each member may have their own individual objective, which could conflict with group’s goal.

We did get a really good grade for our group project last term. And i admitted that the distribution degree is different. Two Canadian students undertake the most difficult part of our project and had done it very well. That apparently is a good thing for rest of us to work with them, however, in the long term, if we don’t make any progress and keep up with them, there will be a larger gap between us and finally the contradiction can result in the separate of team. For people like those two canadian students, they will try to find a group that suits them and gain really useful things from members.

As a result, to make a group stable in the long-term, each member should have common goal, and equally important, their ability should be in the similar level. Our group did get a really great grade in group final project, but moreover, it’s a wonderful experience for me.

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Who is your friend in university?

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As a first year student and a foreigner in the university of British Colombia, everything here is new and fresh to me. Observing local people’s behavior is one of my habit now. Since UBC is a very international school, one thing I observed is that students tend to make friend with those people use the same language, same race and from the same country.

From chapter2, we learnt that personality is determined and affected by heredity, culture or background and present situation. All these three factors equally and significant affect one person’s personality. According to those three determinants, people who come from the same region and accepted similar education are more likely to have common things in their personality. And most people especially younger generation would like to make friend with people who have similar personality.

From my experience, Chinese students seems hard to get into Canadian students’ social network, while Canadian students don’t seems interested in Chinese Students’ life. That might not be hard to understand, we watched different cartoons, read different books, like different singers through our early years. That all result in a huge difference between Chinese student and Canadian student in every aspect. When we first know someone, common interests will always make people acquaint with each other faster. Therefore, we are naturally attracted by peers from the same country.

However, I personally think to obtain a high quality, long-run stable friendship is more about the commen values shared by friends. We may attracted by common hobbies and personalities easily, but common values between friends usually make friendship lasts long. According to the knowledge we learned through chapter3, two persons who have terminal value for example are more likely to keep a stable relationship since they are both inspired by the fulfillment of their goals.

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Is ZHENGFEI REN the owner of HUAWEI?

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Zhengfei Ren, as the founder and president of HUAWEI Technologies Co, Ltd, was thought to be the owner and largest shareholder of the company by many people includes me, however, the truth is he only takes 1.4% shares of company’s total, with the rests shared by his 82,471 employees. World’s third smart phone manufacturer is indeed not a public company!

In chapter 5 Motivation in Action, we’ve learned this type of payment method, it’s called Employee stock ownership plans and this focus on emphasizing attention to organizational goals. Not many companies adopt such a way to motivate their employees though, usually there is only a few people in an organization getting really rich with rest of people undertake most of work. However, the example of HUAWEI does prove that this is a very effective way to encourage and motivate its labor.

HUAWEI is famous for its Hard-charging workplace charging culture, for every new employee, they are given a blanket and a mattress because they would work late into night and sleep in the office, I have a sister works there and she proved that. For a doubled workload and high-pressured job, one of the reason why employees still want to keep their jobs is related to this ESOP payment system. As we known, HUAWEI is a very profitable and successful company, the dividend each year would be considerable not to mention their salary. Income is especially important for people who live in SHENGZHEN, city where HUAWEI locates since the price level and housing price are top in CHINA. In addition, the ownership of certain amount of shares make each employee feel more responsible and motivated for company, thus, they tend to become more committed and dedicated. Therefore, although we may think those highly educated people would care a lot about the intrinsic motivator or higher level of needs, we need to analyze the specific condition. Here in HUAWEI, the good publicity and good income makes a very decent job.

Nevertheless, whether HUAWEI actually belongs to those employees who own shares are still worth discussing. The share owner staff is hard to take part in the major decision making since so many shares are issued and they are only a small percentage of company. This will result in the reduction in employee’s motivaion. Also, many people hold the view that HUAWEI has a government background, therefore, most of decision making rights are still in management people’s hand, ang HUAWEI doesn’t necesserily need to concern much about the financial problem as the support of government, so making themself a public company to raise capital is not required.

To conclude, ESOP can be just suitable for HUAWEI while for other companies it can be inappropriate.

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References:

https://hbr.org/2015/06/huaweis-culture-is-the-key-to-its-success

http://www.employeeownership.com.au/employee-ownership/the-advantages-and-disadvantage/