Damien gives a debrief of Data Analysis from the night before and an overview of his day at work doing a Business Review with a Kinaway Victorian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce member. He talks about what he did after work at the Melbourne Business School for study for Managing People for the weekly survey and reflection question. He then talks about the weekend ahead including the Data Analysis Tutorial Assistance class on Saturday and whether he will be watching the NRL Rugby League Grand Final on Sunday.
Damien also talks about managing his study, work and personal life as he plans for exams in December as well as work travel.
Damien talks with Bode Muse who has travelled the world with his work and is now studying the Part Time MBA here at Melbourne Business School. Bode tells his story starting in Nigeria where he grew up to his work in England and now Australia in a wide variety of roles with various organisations. He has worked in government, Corporate and Non Government organisations. He has worked in various organisations including banking, energy, IT and education. He talks about his experience in the Not For Profit area around social cohesion and Corporate Social Responsibility with Kulture Hive. Bode talks about the importance of MBA students having a social responsibility view in their organisations.
Bode also talks about a term known as ‘Tribalism’ from his experience both in the not for profit and corporate world. He tells why it is important for organisations to understand about regional social and cultural differences when expanding into new international locations.
Bode also talks about why he chose to do a MBA at Melbourne Business School and how he has previously done a leadership program at Harvard Business School and considered it and Melbourne Business School in comparison.
Damien talks about what he has done at work with internal meetings, Indigenous business members and Corporate Partner meetings. He has submitted his Social Responsibility and Ethics assignment, submitted his weekly Data Analysis prior to tomorrow nights class, done the Managing People quiz and has yet to complete the self reflection question.
Damien also talks about his registering with several MBS Clubs as the MBS Startup Club, MBS Consulting Club as well as other Alumni clubs as EY and Australia Post. Damien has registered for ‘Coffee Roulette’ where he will be matched with other students from other industry and experience backgrounds to share stories and knowledge.
Damien talks about Indigenous Business Month which is a legacy of the Murra Program which Melbourne Business School runs. Damien in his role as Relationship Manager with Kinaway Victorian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and the video he is working on. He discusses his interaction with another student on the Social Responsibility and Ethics assignment and his finding another resource from Brown University.
The Managing People class was an information overload lecture. Damien found the class information intensive in the slides and content. There were class exercises around how we use past experience and knowledge/ heuristics to solve problems (one of the exercise problems was on Die Hard With a Vengeance in the park).
The takeaway from the class were the modern Motivation Theories which are Goals Theory, Consequence Theory, Justice Theory and Self Determination Theory. These now supercede the old Motivation theories as Maslows Heirarchy of Needs. He learns what Negative Reinforcement is where it is about taking away a negative impact on performance.
The Self Reflection was how in the workplace we ourselves or another employee performed poorly and how that was approached around feedback. The most notable reasoning most went to was it being the result of extrinsic reasons as to intrinsic reasons.
The Syndicate work has a Project due on the 26 November but we need to have our topic in as soon as possible, but then also have a mid term assignment due in week 6. We also discussed what technology we will be using as a team for the assignment. It was agreed by the Syndicate we use Slack for communications and Google Docs for document control.
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