Week Five Work in Class

Result from Abby (Yao Ruyan)

post by Anne(HUANG Anni)

CC(Xie Yuchen)

Janey(Hu Jiani)

Anne (HUANG Anni)

From the data presented, it is easily to determine how well the organizations functions. Three factors are taken to be concerned, they are supportive learning environment, concrete learning process and practices, leadership that reinforce learning. First, I will analyze the performance of my learning organization.

What are the advantages of SFL: 

1) Appreciation of differences 85.7%: Different ideas are welcomed in SFL where the staffs can point out problems and express his opinions.

2) Openness to new ideas 92.9%: The score means the creative new ideas are highly valued in SFL.

3) SFL is basically good at learning process and practices. As I have explained in previous sessions, the organization takes serious of development. Importantly, the managers actively response to change, that the staffs feel encouraged to come up with systematically schedule.

What are the disadvantages of SFL:

1) Psychological safety 77.1%: People in this unit can feel stress of competition. If you make a mistake or your measure is beyond schedule, others may feel uncomfortable.  

2) Time for reflection 77.1%: It is weak in this area because the SFL is eager to make difference.

Comparing performance of SFL against other three organizations:ZJUT(Abby's), FE(CC's) and FFL(Janey's), it reveals some useful information. We can find some areas SFL thought are strengthens are actually less robust than other organizations

a. FFL mentioned by Janey works very well in the area of appreciation of differences and time for reflection. However, this organization needs a breadth of perspective to open to new ideas.

b. For the learning process and practices, ZJUT organization mentioned by Abby is in a state of negative situation. ZJUT(CC) and FFL have obvious advantages in some areas. 

c. Analysis of leadership that reinforce learning clarifies that the manager in ZJUT(Abby) and SFL spend less time and resources to drive the innovation. On the other hand, ZJUT and FFL encourage creative and different views. 

Harvard Review Survery helps us to identify area where the organization is weak and need to improve. Assignment Task 1 asks what strategies does your organization (or an organization of your choice) have in place to encourage development, change and innovation. From the analysis we are able to suggest the organization which activities can be sustained, and which can be improved.

Abby （Yao Ruyan）

In my case, my faculty did not get high scores in all parts. But they did well in the following several parts: time for reflection,experimentation,education and training,information transfer. It shows that my faculty pays a lot of attentions on training, professional development, communication and reflecting on former educational work. But we did not so good at agreeing the disagrees and supporting new thoughts. I think it's the time for us to introspect about accepting new ideas and new thoughts.

Back to Anne's, her case all gets high scores and mainly in information transfer, information collection, education and training, openness to new ideas. It shows that Anne's case is good at collecting and transferring information and opening-minded to those new ideas and thoughts.But her case is same as mine in bad at learning processes composite.

Back to CC's, her case also gets pretty high scores at information collection, analysis, information  transfer and leadership that reenforces learning. It is also bad at learning processes composite and psychological safety.

Back to Janey's, her case gets high scores for experimentation, education and training, information transfer, appreciation of difference and leadership that reinforces learning, be relatively bad at learning processes composite, openness to new ideas and information collection.

Basically, those four cases are all good at collecting information and correspondingly bad at accepting new ideas and learning processes composite. I think it is a normal sense happened in Chinese schools and organizations which is what we can do to make them a better and organized organization.

Comparison from CC

Table of data comparison:

Scaled Scores	YAO Ruyan	XIE Yuchen	HUANG Anni	HU Jiani
Psychological Safety	57.1	65.7	77.1	80
Appreciation of Differences	46.4	85.7	85.7	96.4
Openness to New Ideas	50	85.7	92.9	78.6
Time for Reflection	74.3	65.7	77.1	88.6
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT COMPOSITE	57	75.7	83.2	85.9
Experimentation	71.4	75	89.3	100
Information Collection	69	100	97.6	78.6
Analysis	57.1	97.1	94.3	85.7
Education and Training	78.6	88.1	95.2	100
Information Transfer	73.2	94.6	98.2	100
LEARNING PROCESSES COMPOSITE	45.6	60.6	66.6	68.7
LEARDERSHIP THAT REINFORCES LEARNING	60	92.5	72.5	90

Compared with my members’ organizations, my organization is weak in “Time for Reflection” and “Psychological Safety”, but seems strong in “Information Collection”, “Analysis”, “Information Transfer” and “Leadership that reinforces learning”. My organization, the faculty of education in Zhejiang University of Technology, need to establish a more comfortable environment that makes staffs develop a sense of safety, a sense of home to publish ideas, even the different ideas, new ideas. Reflection is also significant to continue work and develop a sustainable change. So it is useful for my individual assignment.

Besides, Anni and Jiani’s organizations do well in “Experimentation”, “Education and Training” and “Information Transfer”. I think I learn a lot from their post and analysis. Maybe establishing a system that show important information and making access to information easier and more convenient is an important component.


Janey (HU Jiani)

According to the questionnaire, I wonder if I give my organization a too high comment… Redid the survey again, the outcome was almost as same as before, so I think it did have a high performance in this area.

After analyzing the data, it turns out that my organization is good in Appreciation of Differences, Experimentation, Education and Training, Information Transfer and LEADERSHIP THAT REINFORCES LEARNING. It is because of the new ICTE system we used in language teaching and learning, the leaders have devoted a lot to develop this system and tried their best to let the system work efficiently. My faculty has a good cooperation with the IT company, and they also designed series of training courses for teachers being used to the system as soon as possible.

However, there still some parts of performance need to be improve. The scores of LEARNING PRCESSES COMPOSITE, Openness to New Ides and Information Collection are lower than other factors. Students and teachers’ advises, suggestions and feelings should be taken more considered.

Compare to my group mates’ scaled scores, my organization’s scores are higher in some parts. Anne’s data and CC’s data don’t have a huge difference, Abby’s data is much lower, she and CC were in the same university but different faculties, I’m interested in why there are such big difference between different faculties in the same university.