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 →

The Evidence Ledger Is Not a Diary

Notebook pages with handwritten notes documenting evidence items and witness interviews dated February 21-22, 2024

The Evidence Ledger is not a place to relive the wound. It is a place to preserve what happened clearly enough that your next step can be based on facts, not fog.

Night Numbers: Money Triage Without Shame

Stressed woman with bills and calculator; notebook with detailed financial plan and checklist

Money pressure gets louder in the dark. Night Numbers turns financial panic back into a page you can work with.

Before Blaming the Person, Check the Conditions

Infographic showing trust, communication, support, and shared goals for collaboration

A Standing on the Ledge reflection translating MGT2382 team and organizational behaviour material into a practical SOTL lens: before blaming people under pressure, check the structure, norms, trust, authority, and conditions around them.

Week 1 MGT2382 learning journal

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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 →

No Big Decisions While the Alarm Is Still Ringing

A crisis wants a dramatic answer. The field rule is simpler: do not make life-sized decisions while the alarm is still ringing.

The First 72 Hours: Stop the Bleed Before You Solve Your Life

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When life takes a hard hit, the first job is not to solve the entire future. The first job is to stabilize the next 72 hours without making the wound worse.

The Team Is Not the Word “Team”

Business team in meeting room with whiteboard showing collaboration, support, authority, accountability topics

One of the risks of doing public learning journals is that the course material can start to get heavy. Definitions. Models. Terms. Categories. Textbook language. All of that can be useful. But Standing on the Ledge was not built to become a textbook. It was built from the rubble. So the question is not only, … Continue reading The Team Is Not the Word “Team” →

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 →