Harold Demsetz Econ 490 Fall 2019

A personal experience I have had with conflict in a group dynamics within a work setting was during my two-three month internship at a company in Rome.  For background information, the company I interned for worked on making the processes of getting foods from farms directly to restaurants and stores much more efficient through the use of data analysis and automation.  The company had three main sectors which were, the delivery sector, the trading sector, and the technology sector.  I worked on a team within the technology sector which was working on the processes of data analysis and automating the ordering/processes of the food. And the team I worked in had five interns including myself which I will name David, Kevin, Ryan, Lucy, and Harold for myself.   Also all the interns had a data analysis and coding background to some degree, some of the interns were more experienced in the data analysis while others were more experienced in coding.   The tea...

There have been several experiences in my life in which I have witnessed the higher up discipline someone.  One occasion was when I was involved in a research project in which four student research assistant including myself were working under a professor.  After about two months into the research project, one of the research assistants began to get busy or lazy and started to not contribute as much to the project and would sometimes not even show up to the weekly project meetings.  After a while of this behavior happening, the professor pulled the student outside of the meeting room after one of our weekly meeting so he could have a private talk with the student.  After that, the student told us in our group chat that the Professor basically said to him, "I know you may be getting busier with balancing research and school work, but when you agreed to take this research assistant position, you agreed to dedicate a certain weekly amount of time to it (it was 10-15 hou...

I found the three article to be really interesting and many concepts in them actually shined some light on many of the experiences I have had in the past.  In particular, I found the first article about sharing the marbles to be intriguing when it talked about "everyone bearing the burden" when a mistake is made.  This is statement feels very relateable to me because when I played soccer and lacrosse in middle school through high school, this concept of "everyone bearing the burden" when is mistake is made was a big emphasis that the coaches tried to convey to us. An example of "everyone bearing the burden" is that in soccer or lacrosse we had specific strategic plays that we would sometimes run during games.  And when someone messed up really badly or made in a mistake in other situations, the coaches would get angry and would always yell the same thing which was "everyone get on the sideline".  These five words were something every player dre...