Reflection Paper
Paresh Uppal
Reflection Paper
MS12A051
My Reflections upon the Organizational Behaviour Course
A 24-year old, Gen-Y guy entered a B-School with an aim to enter the Operations Field. He was asked to go through a Core course of Organizational Behaviour. He thought to himself,
“What does an institute like IIT think, asking an aspiring MBA-grad to go through this HR
Course?”
Well, that was me at the beginning of this quarter when I saw the time-table for this quarter. I have been through an OB Course during my graduation and that course left me dry. Now, after almost 2 months; my opinion of Organization Behaviour is exactly opposite.
Let me start from the starting.
An Honest Confession
After the introduction and description of the course outline in the first class where we told about the topics, the readings and the cases; my first impression was that Prof. Rupashree has put in a lot of effort for this course. But, the subject itself is so boring that I can never get myself to like it. Well, I was wrong but only on one count. Prof. Rupashree has put in so much effort in designing and carrying out the course that the energy got to me
Instead of day-dreaming in the class, somehow I was attentive and I wasn’t even making an effort to do so (I have to do so in some subjects). The in-class activities were attentiongrabbers.
Realization
The first time a case study was discussed in the class, I realized how punctiliously the course had been designed; the zeal behind the classes was evident from the course structure. It was not a class where we were told about a lot of concepts and we had to remember the intricacies; it was about understanding the relative experience. I say this because I come with a work experience of
2 years in more than one organizational setting. I could relate to a lot of theories being taught in
Paresh Uppal
Reflection Paper
MS12A051
the class. I can easily recall the class where motivation was being
Reflection Paper
MS12A051
My Reflections upon the Organizational Behaviour Course
A 24-year old, Gen-Y guy entered a B-School with an aim to enter the Operations Field. He was asked to go through a Core course of Organizational Behaviour. He thought to himself,
“What does an institute like IIT think, asking an aspiring MBA-grad to go through this HR
Course?”
Well, that was me at the beginning of this quarter when I saw the time-table for this quarter. I have been through an OB Course during my graduation and that course left me dry. Now, after almost 2 months; my opinion of Organization Behaviour is exactly opposite.
Let me start from the starting.
An Honest Confession
After the introduction and description of the course outline in the first class where we told about the topics, the readings and the cases; my first impression was that Prof. Rupashree has put in a lot of effort for this course. But, the subject itself is so boring that I can never get myself to like it. Well, I was wrong but only on one count. Prof. Rupashree has put in so much effort in designing and carrying out the course that the energy got to me
Instead of day-dreaming in the class, somehow I was attentive and I wasn’t even making an effort to do so (I have to do so in some subjects). The in-class activities were attentiongrabbers.
Realization
The first time a case study was discussed in the class, I realized how punctiliously the course had been designed; the zeal behind the classes was evident from the course structure. It was not a class where we were told about a lot of concepts and we had to remember the intricacies; it was about understanding the relative experience. I say this because I come with a work experience of
2 years in more than one organizational setting. I could relate to a lot of theories being taught in
Paresh Uppal
Reflection Paper
MS12A051
the class. I can easily recall the class where motivation was being