Everything seems to be somehow connected…
I had been really hoping to do my Best Practices paper (Labor Standards) on Smart Communications Inc. But that was shot down when my request was rejected. So I had to quickly find another company to focus my research on. I was able to get Unilab because of a friend who is working there. I was able to get the data I needed and I spent Friday night and most of Saturday, working on it and preparing a Power Point presentation. Only to find out that somebody else was already working on it. So I’m back to square one. I wouldn’t consider it a waste of time though, I think learning about how Unilab operates and the ideas they uphold was worth all the time I devoted to it. Unilab values its employees highly. It shares what it makes with its employees and they espouse the Bayanihan spirit in their operations.
On the other hand I think I am doing better with my IR 222 paper. My Prof required us to have primary data and suggested that we work on the companies we work for to make things easier. That was convenient, since I already had a research proposal ready from my IR 299 class and I still have the data from the Organizational Diagnosis survey I conducted a few months ago but I was never able to use it because I thought I didn’t have enough respondents. My Prof only required at least 15 survey respondents if we were going to use a survey and I had 24. Good thing I didn’t discard those surveys.
The Organizational Diagnosis survey I conducted focused on 5 key areas namely: job satisfaction, work environment, communications, leadership, and values. After processing the data, it appears that the respondent’s perception would indicate that there is a problem with job satisfaction and values. The fact that job satisfaction is low in this account comes as no surprise but values was a bit unexpected. Well at least now I know where to begin and what to watch out for…
I had been really hoping to do my Best Practices paper (Labor Standards) on Smart Communications Inc. But that was shot down when my request was rejected. So I had to quickly find another company to focus my research on. I was able to get Unilab because of a friend who is working there. I was able to get the data I needed and I spent Friday night and most of Saturday, working on it and preparing a Power Point presentation. Only to find out that somebody else was already working on it. So I’m back to square one. I wouldn’t consider it a waste of time though, I think learning about how Unilab operates and the ideas they uphold was worth all the time I devoted to it. Unilab values its employees highly. It shares what it makes with its employees and they espouse the Bayanihan spirit in their operations.
On the other hand I think I am doing better with my IR 222 paper. My Prof required us to have primary data and suggested that we work on the companies we work for to make things easier. That was convenient, since I already had a research proposal ready from my IR 299 class and I still have the data from the Organizational Diagnosis survey I conducted a few months ago but I was never able to use it because I thought I didn’t have enough respondents. My Prof only required at least 15 survey respondents if we were going to use a survey and I had 24. Good thing I didn’t discard those surveys.
The Organizational Diagnosis survey I conducted focused on 5 key areas namely: job satisfaction, work environment, communications, leadership, and values. After processing the data, it appears that the respondent’s perception would indicate that there is a problem with job satisfaction and values. The fact that job satisfaction is low in this account comes as no surprise but values was a bit unexpected. Well at least now I know where to begin and what to watch out for…
I start on a new challenge come Monday…
