Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
These posts connect course material in organizational behaviour, communication, conflict, psychology, sociology, and systems thinking to the real-world work of collapse recovery, agency, pressure, accountability, and rebuilding.
Some entries are more reflective than polished. That is intentional. This is the development bench where raw notes become field observations, tools, protocols, case studies, and future book material.
The journals are not separate from the work. They are part of how the work is built.
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
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 on the Ledge: What We Have Learned So Far Standing on the Ledge began as a record of collapse, but the Organizational Behaviour learning journals have started to give that collapse a working language. At first, SOTL was about impact: what happens when the floor drops out, when work disappears, when trust breaks, … Continue reading Learning to See the System
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
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
A learning-journal bridge between conflict styles, the Five-Factor Model, and the way personality shows up under pressure inside organizations.
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
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
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
This post is adapted from my final learning journal for Communication & Conflict Management. I am sharing it here because the course did not stay inside the classroom for me. It connected directly to Standing on the Ledge: collapse recovery, crisis management, boundaries, communication under pressure, and the systems that shape conflict before anyone says … Continue reading What Communication & Conflict Management Taught Me About Collapse, Systems, and Boundaries
Standing on the Ledge 