Your scores have been pigeon-holed!
Today was an eventful day. We got the results of two tests. So there were some happy faces, but some seemed disappointed.
One subject that we study in Term 1 is Organisational Behaviour (OB). I had studied this subject prior to the start of MBA programme, and I had been wondering if this would turn out to be as boring as it was then. I was in for a surprise when the course began early in October 2004.
As part of our curriculum, we use numerous tools in OB. These tools enable us to identify and understand ourselves, our personalities, behaviour, emotional intelligence, etc. We experienced “ladder of inference”, MBTI, learning styles, Johari window, FIRO-B, and a few other aspects. But how does a student get objectively assessed in such a subjective course?
We have QOITs for this – Quick Outline of Interpersonal interaction Tool – a unique instrument that is used by each team member to capture his / her thoughts during team meetings. To ensure consistency, these are rigid in its structure and frequency. All QOITs across the term are divided into weeks and every student has to fill it and get it stamped by the Grad. Admin. Office.
Four weeks into the journey it was time to write our individual reports. With the WAC report format, we submitted our individual OB reports on 29th October 2004. And today we received the reports back, duly assessed and graded. Imagine going through 126 individual reports, assessing the 8-9 QOITs attached in each of these reports (that’s over 1100 QOITs) and to top it all, giving written feedback on each of these reports in a matter of just under two weeks! Such is the capacity of our faculty.
As the news spread that the OB assessment was out, one could see students rushing to their pigeon-holes to pick them up and douse their anxiety. Some were happy faces, some weren’t.
It had been less than half an hour after the OB results, when we heard “Accounts results are out!”. Accounting is considered as a subject that can give sleepless nights to some students. Hearing that the results were out, a few hearts would have skipped some beats. One could see some students rushing to the school building with flaying arms, running (with weak) legs, rapidly beating hearts and twitching lips. Some others walked coolly. A fact now insignificant was that we had written the Accounts only last night and hardly 16 hours had passed away!
One subject that we study in Term 1 is Organisational Behaviour (OB). I had studied this subject prior to the start of MBA programme, and I had been wondering if this would turn out to be as boring as it was then. I was in for a surprise when the course began early in October 2004.
As part of our curriculum, we use numerous tools in OB. These tools enable us to identify and understand ourselves, our personalities, behaviour, emotional intelligence, etc. We experienced “ladder of inference”, MBTI, learning styles, Johari window, FIRO-B, and a few other aspects. But how does a student get objectively assessed in such a subjective course?
We have QOITs for this – Quick Outline of Interpersonal interaction Tool – a unique instrument that is used by each team member to capture his / her thoughts during team meetings. To ensure consistency, these are rigid in its structure and frequency. All QOITs across the term are divided into weeks and every student has to fill it and get it stamped by the Grad. Admin. Office.
Four weeks into the journey it was time to write our individual reports. With the WAC report format, we submitted our individual OB reports on 29th October 2004. And today we received the reports back, duly assessed and graded. Imagine going through 126 individual reports, assessing the 8-9 QOITs attached in each of these reports (that’s over 1100 QOITs) and to top it all, giving written feedback on each of these reports in a matter of just under two weeks! Such is the capacity of our faculty.
As the news spread that the OB assessment was out, one could see students rushing to their pigeon-holes to pick them up and douse their anxiety. Some were happy faces, some weren’t.
It had been less than half an hour after the OB results, when we heard “Accounts results are out!”. Accounting is considered as a subject that can give sleepless nights to some students. Hearing that the results were out, a few hearts would have skipped some beats. One could see some students rushing to the school building with flaying arms, running (with weak) legs, rapidly beating hearts and twitching lips. Some others walked coolly. A fact now insignificant was that we had written the Accounts only last night and hardly 16 hours had passed away!
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