On Monday, 10/20/08, we got our first grade back for Management. The class average is 68. Although I did not get the grade that I expected, but at least, I did not do too badly. Then, the professor announced if we can come up with a plan for this exam and the next one in a reasonable matter, and has 100% agreement by the end of the class time, he will do what we propose. Then, the chaos started... with the large class that we have like the management class, to have 100% agreement is not easy.
There are five ways to handle conflicts, such as compete to win, avoidance, compromise, accommodation and collaborating. I would say that I am handle the conflict by accommodation through communicating with my neighbors about what we can do; however, everyone has their own concern, and their weakness, so the disagreement build up, and frustration build up too. As a matter of fact, I have couple minutes of avoidance which is just looking at the crow and sit quietly. But at the end, some people stand up and take charges, then, and I once again see the light, and I engage to the process by agreeing or disagreeing to the proposal that comes up by raising my hand. If there is a second time, I would be accommodating fully, with no second thought.
Anyhow, at the end, we have 100% agreement of drop one lowest exam with the two midterms, and curve the first exam, and for the next exam for the multiple-multiple choice, professor have to tell us how many correct answers are there within a question of five choices.
And the day ends...
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I am similar to you in the fact that we were both more accomodative to the situation then other conflict handling choices. I think that as the crowd becomes more excited and more participating in the discussion, other peoples drive to contribute increases. =D Good job overall. We did it!
It is good to see that you try to accommodate to the class’s discussion, but you said you were avoidance for a period of time. I was avoidance too, because I’m thinking if the professor will give us whatever we want when we reach the 100% agreement or he just want to show us the decision making by giving us this exercise. The other thing that I worry was can we actually made 100% agreement at the end of class. But at then end, professor actually gives us whatever we agree on and we also made the 100% agreement. So I guess I worry about it too much. It is great for us to accomplish the 100% agreement and everyone gets benefit from that decision. Good Job!~
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