Blog Franziska Heggemann
Student no: 53324444
http://fnh1988.blogspot.hk

Assignment 1: Group Exercise

Question 1: Introduction of our Team

Franziska Heggemann (Franzi):

 

I am from Germany, Cologne, and 25 years old; have finished my high school in England, Oxford;

 

after that did a gap year where I have been in the USA, Spain, Argentine and Germany for iternships;

 

finished my undergraduate in International Management in Munich; have been in Shenzhen last year

 

for an internship and again in the USA; as you can see I have travelled a lot and gained work

 

experience all over the world; I love skiing, art can fascinate me easily and I enjoy to hang out with

 

friends; my family is very important to me; my future career goal is to be a leader. 

MA Tianheng (Candy):

Hi, my Chinese name is MA Tianheng, and you can call me Candy. I am from mainland China and my hometown is Hefei, the province of Anhui. I graduated from China University of Mining and Technology Yinchuan College. I am a hardworking and outgoing girl, I have passion about everything and try to do best。

YANG Zhengrong:

My name is YANG Zhengrong, which means extraordinary in Chinese. I was born and grow up in Hubei, after graduated from Hubei economic university,I have worked in the government as a civil servant for several months, then I resigned and come to Hong Kong to study.

Question 2: Our Group Name

Our group name is Zebra. On the one hand, Zebra is named by its protective body stripe, each zebra stripe is different. Just like our group member, we are unique and each individual, too. On the other hand, Zebra always consists of groups, even elderly individuals will not be expelled from the group life and group is very tight and not loose. The members of the group are friendly, often living together, sharing the same food with other herbivores such as ostriches, giraffes and antelopes. Our group is like Zebra, each individual work together with others and share informations. What’s more, Zebra always know which way to go and leading others, all of our group members want to be a leader like Zebra.

Question 3: Group Goals
 

We all know collaboration gets more and more important in our daily work life. In the future, we need to find a job and negotiating with others in work, our group want to put the theory into our daily work life, learning how to negotiate and cooperate with our future colleagues, learn some useful ways and skills to build trust among individual and to be a good leader to build high performance group. 

Question 4: Excitement about weekly topics

As we can see, weekly topics is different and specific, they can add more value for our future work. So we can learn different knowledge and know how to deal with some problems with group member when we face in the future. We think this is the most part which excites us.

Question 5: Additional topics

We are also interested in the topic about how to motivate our colleges who are not actively in our group. Because sometimes when other group members are busy at group work while someone are not care more about it because they know other colleges will finish it and they do not need do anything, and incentive these people is quite difficult.

Question 6: A Myth about collaboration

First of all, lets be clear about the definition of a myth. It’s origin comes from the mid 19th century: 

 

from modern Latin mythus, via late Latin from Greek muthos. A myth is a story that may or may not 

 

be true. Also it can be described as a widely held but false belief or idea. Cultures or groups of people

 

tell myths in order to help define themselves as people or understand the word around them. But why

 

are people telling myths? Well myths entertain us today, but it was from myths that we learned to

 

trace genealogy, from myths that are the origins of ideas – psychology, time keeping understanding

 

and naming human emotions.

We decided to choose the following myth: "Nationality is not interfering in collaborations"

Usually nationalities are different in terms of values, behavior, language etc. and therefore change the

way how people with other nationalities collaborate with each other. However sometimes

nationalities show also similarities and actually the collaboration is not facing any challenges. So this

myth may or may not be true.