Thursday Feb. 26, 2016 - I wasn 't able to make any progress today towards unit 5 as I was finishing up unit 4 's journal today.
Friday Feb. 27, 2016 - I am off to a late start as today as I wasn 't able to get any work done today either. Tomorrow is going to be rough.
Saturday Feb. 28, 2016 - I read the required work for the week and started my discussion questions.
Sunday Feb. 29, 2016 - Struggling with the discussion questions today. I hope that I am answering these right. I am trying to add some personal details to the examples to make it make sense to both myself and those that read them. I am not going to be able to post these tonight however, I have a long ways to go.
Monday March …show more content…
I buckled down and worked all day on them. Normally I do not struggle as much with writing, but for some reason today it has been a laboring process. I think I am psyching myself out, but I want to make sure my citations are correct before submitting. I was able to submit the discussion questions late tonight/early Wednesday morning. I am so glad to know I have that …show more content…
So with that in mind, I looked up the different styles of management in our text book to find... Informal vs. Formal and so we fit the definition of a formal work group. We also fit "high group cohesion" and "high task commitment" (Carpenter et al., 2009, p.304) The Expectancy Theory applies to our experience in this classroom experience. It is summed up with "effort, performance, rewards" (Carpenter et al., 2009, p. 332) The reason I say that is because we contribute effort to getting our assignments in on time which we value as part of our path to acquiring a higher education in the long run. Each assignment and each action that we make big or small is with the frame of mind that this gets us closer to the goal of a diploma. The Goal Setting Theory is something that is operating on a personal level in each of our lives individually with "Smart Goals" (Carpenter et al., 2009,