Workplace Reflective Summary And Analysis

During the summer, over the past two years, I worked at a law firm called Norton Rose Fulbright, which has an office located in downtown Montreal. This firm is quite large, and has offices all around the world. They specialize in areas like employment and labour, intellectual property and dispute resolution and litigation, among others. This was a great opportunity for me to understand how a workplace functions in a corporate setting, which is beneficial because I am interested in the fields of organizational behaviour and human resources. While I was working there, I noticed a few aspects that I really liked about the company, but also I experienced some things that may have needed some improvement. My experience included positive aspects like my manager’s managing style, as well as negative things like poor job design. Taking this course now, allows me to be able to analyse my experience, as well as allowing me to put some of the theories to use. One of the positive aspects that I noticed was that the firm makes an effort to engage the employees in exercise. They do this by offering a Pilates class once a week, as well as …show more content…
This can happen when a person is competent of doing much more, but the job that they are assigned is too simple. That year, I was doing a lot of basic office work, like making photocopies and looking for certain phone numbers in a stack of paper. I felt like I was able to do so much more, but I was stuck doing mundane tasks, which would often leave me pretty bored. Additionally, since I was only able to do a few tasks, when I would finish, I was often left sitting at my desk with nothing to do. I could not help the secretaries with legal work because I wasn’t trained, and so while people were trying to find work for me I felt bad that I wasn’t able to do anything; this was very