Writing Log #8 Silence with murmurs fills the classroom every Tuesday around two forty-five pm. Give or take a few minutes, this span of utters normally ranges from about fifteen minutes till three o’clock eastern time. This period of mouth breathing is when professor Diasio goes over the weekly review of our management concepts. During this time of communication of beneficial data students seem unengaged and suddenly engaged at the drop of a hat. It is kind of like a negotiation process between the professor and students relating the feedback. Simple questions like these are being asked at this time internally and externally. Which questions will spark their interest? What do we recall? Should I answer this question? Do I not agree with the statement? Theses brain stimulating questions in relation to “Management by Hitt, Black, and Porter” can be perceived as an attempt to unlock the gate to the class’s informal communication channel, through our different individual responds and reactions to the questions being asked. After breaking the mouth breathing barrier that is present at the start of class it is time for the lesson, this last span of forty-five to fifty minutes is when the true barriers are broken through for higher learning. Communication is flowing with every type of respond from vivid opinions, to the questioning of the book, to even the random “mouth vomit” that will inevitably happen. At this point the class stimulus is intense as the perceptual understands come out is it right or wrong? Networking on the class’s emotions floating in the air development can flourish, like a beautiful rose of managerial knowledge. This atmosphere that is set up every Tuesday at three o’clock sharp, can also be compared office settings in large organizations as they use a more formal communication channel as ideas flow during the daily course of meetings and managing company operations. I tend to feel students don’t realize the value of these social situations, as some continuously play on their fancy apple laptop totally disengaged from the lecture. Lost in the present ideas of developing social communication skills through interaction, skills that become a crucial necessity in modern management. These self-inflicted consequences from attempting to multitask reflect academically. I guess from previous lectures I can describe these seemly harmless academic blunders as type of natural selection in the long-term run of life. My reasoning is simple, as my fellow colleagues and I continue to develop our social communication in low risk situations like a classroom; this practicing will presumably give us a “leg up” or a competitive edge to add to a resume, in an ever so rapidly growing dog eat dog world of business. Listening is key in the communication process, and development of that process if you cannot listen efficiently, why are you paying for this class? Or in management terms how are you going to follow directions effectively for their desired position? These are the questions I continually ask myself now when I sit back and reflect on the Tuesday class “Principles of Management” with Dr. Diasio. I wonder if he ever ponders on the motive or inner drive of students, and what they plan to obtain from the opportunity of maturity growth in this course. I probably will never truly understand the factors that drive people in the journey of life. All I can do is verbally communicate my thoughts and kinesics social in efforts to gain a deeper understanding as I mature into early adulthood. Psychology in a regular classroom students are very diverse, and develop very different with personality’s types mixed in
the seventy seats. Certain variables expressed from individual traits allows a presumable sense of which students are small or open minded in the mix. Elements like this effect every outcome of communication increasing the difficulty of negotiating process for a common ground relationship for education purposes. I feel once barriers are broken and people are force to step outside of their comfort zone and react to stimulus success rate for prosperity are high. A song lyric named Aerials by a famous metal band called System of a Down states “when you lose small mind you free your life.� Can be used as used as a heuristic in the journey of life growth, through knowledge and communication
References Hitt, M., Black, J., & Porter, L. (2012). Chapter 11. In Management (Third ed). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall