Week 6 Learning Journal

Woman thinking with decision-making concepts like logic, emotion, creativity, and ethics

This learning journal examines the full scope of Chapter 7 by treating decision-making as both a logical process and a human process. It begins with rational choice, then questions the assumptions underneath that model: whether the problem has been defined honestly, whether information is accurate and supplied above board, whether goals conflict, whether important alternatives … Continue reading Week 6 Learning Journal →

MGT2382 Week 5 Learning Journal

Open notebook with handwritten notes on compensation models, reward systems, motivation cycles, and performance management.

Topic Focus This learning journal examines Chapter 6 as a connected system of applied performance practices. It begins with money as an economic exchange and a psychological and social symbol, then evaluates job status-based, competency-based, skill-based, individual, team, and organizational rewards. It also examines how reward systems can produce fairness or distortion, how job design … Continue reading MGT2382 Week 5 Learning Journal →

Week 4 Learning Journal: What Drives People at Work

Office scene showing stressed employee overwhelmed with deadlines and a motivated team achieving goals

Based on Chapters 4 and 5 of McShane and Warner's Canadian Organizational Behaviour, 12th Canadian Edition. This Week 4 learning journal brings together two connected parts of Organizational Behaviour: emotions, attitudes, stress, and employee motivation. Read together, these chapters show that workplace behaviour is rarely simple. People do not perform well only because they are … Continue reading Week 4 Learning Journal: What Drives People at Work →

Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Week 3.5

Five people discussing identity and perception concepts on a whiteboard in an office

This is Week 3.5 because the reading guide and facilitator guide did not line up with the same material, which means I missed a chapter. This entry corrects that gap and brings the material into one continuous learning journal. The chapter matters because it deals with something underneath almost every workplace decision: self-concept, how people … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Week 3.5 →

Organizational Behaviour — Week 3 Learning Journal

Diagram showing workplace personality profiles, motivation, stress coping, leadership styles, cognitive biases, and conflict resolution.

Personality, Values, Jungian Type Theory, the Dark Triad, and Perception in Organizations MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour Topic focus: This journal entry reviews Chapter 2 of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, 12th Edition, including personality, the nature-versus-nurture debate, the Five-Factor Model, Jungian personality theory, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Dark Triad, and values. It also extends the reflection into … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour — Week 3 Learning Journal →

MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour: Week 2 Learning Journal

Flowchart showing communication process from sender to receiver with encoding, message, channel, decoding stages, barriers like noise and bias, and feedback loop.

Effective Communication Is More Than Sending a Message This week’s Organizational Behaviour reading focused on communication, and the more I worked through it, the more I realized that communication is not simply “person A sends a message and person B receives it.” That is the simple version. The real version is messier. Effective communication happens … Continue reading MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour: Week 2 Learning Journal →

Week 1 MGT2382 learning journal

Team discussing collaboration, structure, trust, and communication concepts around a table with charts and building blocks

Posted at a later date than the dates listed in this reflection. Phase lens: Phase 3 — rebuild systems, with Phase 0 warning-light implications and Phase 1 implications whenever people are making decisions under pressure. Source note: This rewritten entry expands the May 18–19 team-dynamics reflection into a broader organizational behaviour reflection. It keeps the … Continue reading Week 1 MGT2382 learning journal →

MGT2382 Learning Journal – May 18-19, 2026

Six people discussing project plan around table with charts and laptops

posted at later date than dates listed in reflection Groups, Teams, Organic Teams, Team Dynamics, Trust, Norms, and Decision-Making Under Pressure Category suggestion: MGT2382 Learning Journal / Field Lab: Learning Journals Phase lens: Phase 3 - rebuild systems, with Phase 0 warning-light implications and Phase 1 implications whenever people are making decisions under pressure. Source … Continue reading MGT2382 Learning Journal – May 18-19, 2026 →

What are Teams?

Diagram showing different types of organizational teams including functional, cross-functional, self-managed, matrix, virtual, and project teams with key roles and activities.

MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Today’s organizational behaviour reading focused on teams: what they are, why they exist, and how different types of teams function inside an organization. At first glance, a team sounds simple. Put people together, give them a goal, and call them a team. But organizational behaviour is more precise than that. … Continue reading What are Teams? →

First Week Review

Group of diverse students discussing motivation theories with notebooks and laptop in classroom

Week One Theme: Learning the language of Organizational Behaviour without losing sight of the worker inside the system. Opening Reflection The first week of MGT2382 did not begin with fireworks. It began with friction. Some of that friction came from the textbook language. Some of it came from trying to translate course concepts into my … Continue reading First Week Review →