The third week

The workload has just started hitting me, in fact many other co-students are a lot more worried than me. I rely primarily on hearing people and not reading everything. I know its going to be difficult, and my character is, when I read I forget, so I prefer to read just before the exams (Whatever I can read).

One good thing about coming with an Accounting and Economics background is that you have only 4 subjects which are entirely new, in fact a lot of marketing stuff had also been taught to me in the final stages of my Management Accounting course, Statistics was a part of it too, which drills down to Operations and Organisational Behaviour. I like operations very much and the faculty is very passionate about the subject, being an operations manager for most of his life (not as academic but as a manager), he teaches in a way which helps us understand things a lot easier than reading any texts.

This week in terms of personal relationships, I went underprepared and late to one of the team meetings and I apologized right in front, however one of the team members was unhappy and he threw it out at a time when I started contributing, the thing that I liked was, one hour later, we did a small analysis of what had happened and he accepted the fact that the anger towards my non-compliance to our basic rules had made him angry and not the point I was trying to make.

We have to submit our individual reports on organisational behaviour this week, and this would be the first exercise that is going to be marked (50% of OBPPD), so I have to take it really seriously. The tools and techniques taught in OB are really good and are influencing me in many ways, however the influence has not completely changed me in the period I am here, this report might want me to stress on the current period and I am more than willing to do that (who in his right mind can ignore the 50 marks).

My wife went to attend an interview, we are eagerly (atleast she is) waiting for the results, for me its more of an achievement that she went to an unknown place in UK without my company, and she can only improve with this confidence. Coming weeks are going to get a lot more busy, with recruitment, assignments and the course getting more intense, I hope to keep up with this blog all through, but lets hope.