EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING REPORT

City Campus

Course: Principles of Management (MAN-401)

Instructor: Prof. Babar Khairi

Semester: Fall 2013

Section: U (MBA-2years)

Submitted by:

• Muhammad Ali Khalid (Group Leader:20131-)

• Kamran Hasan Khan (20131-15756)

• Syed Salman (20131-)

• Fahad (20131-16666)

Introduction

Our ELA begins with a vision of a leader, specifying the theme, mission and

goals by group members, plan the activities to achieve goals and then leading the

mission a step forward toward the vision. Experiential Learning is a prominent and

proficient learning method for students, which not only involve learning theories,

statements and laws, it also conjure the student to apply these theories practically and

make them understand forever. Asst. Prof. Baber Khairi is one of the pioneer for

teaching in this methodology in our institute. Under his privilege students gets an

opportunity to apply the taught concepts on the real world.

Vision

Our ELA for management is based on a vision. Which states as,

Provisioning the basics of life

Believing and owning the vision, we are destined to help those who are under held with

even the basic necessities of life that is food, shelter and clothing. Our mission and

vision is to help them to our extents.

Mission

To help the IDPs for their basic requirement, so to provide them clothing and other

preventive measures. We are précised to generate clothing collections.

Goals

Ensuing our vision we specify our goals and decide our lines and targets that we have to

achieve in our ELA. We then stipulate our vision to cater hunger issues and extends

our services to help in this cause. We decided to gather funds from offices, Mosques and

contribution by ourselves, so in order to make collective campaigns and convey our

message to most of the people in comparatively less centers. Our objective is to

understand a sense of well-being. To work as a team and create a team-player within

us.Secondly to ensure that we all with common taste, preference, liking, and attitude

work together to accomplish a common goal. Our project will work as a link between the

'higher' people and the 'lower' people and recognizing them as being of equal value as

human beings. To apply our classroom knowledge on something practical and get a

better understanding of what we have learned in our management Course.

Activities

In order to achieve goals, we plan several activities which collectively results our

goals, the following activities we plan to carry out.

1. Brain storming for resource collection and allocation.

2. Collection of funds and purchasing of items.

3. Combining the collection then sorting and packing.

4. Selecting the NGO for resource allocation and provision them lunch distribution for

distribution.

Group formation

One of the major task in our ELA was group formation, we made an informal group

extended to friendship group consisting on a project Leader, Ali,two General

Manager(Operations) namely Fahad Mohiuddin Ahmed Khan and Kamran, and one

General Manager marketing, Salman. Following is the detail of group formation task

division and designation.

Group Tasks And Responsibilities

Group Members Informal Group Designation

Responsibilities

Ali Project Leader Team Leading, Motivator, Planning, Decision Making, Distribution, Representative.

Kamran GM Operations Managing Resources, Purchasing, Distribution, Executing Backup Plans

Salman GM Marketing Negotiator, Disturbance Handler, Video Making, Resource Collector, Monitoring

Fahad GM Operations Managing Resources, Purchasing, Distribution, Executing Backup Plans

Informal Group Friendly Group

Project LeaderGeneral

Managers(Operations)

General Manager(Marketing)

Group operation

Group was operated and controlled centrally from group Leader; all the general managers

were assigned task and responsibilities and were operating their task and decision in

their domains with mutual cooperation. Out of four members three were privately

employed group members, hence all task were democratically handled in a team work.

Inputs

All group members were explained briefly about the goals, activities and their responsibilities

and their working domains were defined to them.

Process

One property for the group process is group norms, our group possess a social and informal

behavior and all of us enjoy our piece of task in ELA, we were lead in a way that increase

and motivated us being social and accomplishing our task with full of interaction and interest.

Another property of our group process was Group cohesiveness, we all were self-

motivated as being friends and understanding colleagues, so there was a lot of attraction

between our group members. It seems obvious that many a time we all used to go for a

singly ask, we all enjoy in job by being together in group and never mind if one is absent or

missing.

Output ---group into a team

This ELA has resulted our group into a team, we have found our character resemblance,

tolerance for each other view and a healthy environment, apart from achieving our goal ,

we have learn to form a group in team, and understand the team work.

Work Group Behavior

Initiation of ELA

Brain Storming

We initiated our ELA by conducting two meetings in discussing and planning the

approaches to be followed, we design our plan of action, program our availability and

decide our activities. After calculating all the measure and ins and outs of the activities, we

started with resource collection.

Resource Collection

For resource collection we decided to target our offices and also did contributed from our

own pocket, we started our campaign in the discussed sector to communicate our vision

and collect as many donation as we can.

Output

Group converted into team

Task completion

Healthy andCompatible attitudes.

Process

Norm: Social functional behavior

Cohesive, attracted and understanding relations.

Output

Group converted into team

Task completion

Healthy and compatible attitudes.

Purchasing

After collecting the funds, we went to purchase Biryani from Mateen Foods (North

Nazimabad) by analyzing the hygienic factor. Purchased fruits, Juices and prepared

lunch Boxes at the same time.

Resource Allocation

Our ELA leads to completion by allocating our collection resource to an NGO, we selected

EDHI Centre for resource allocation, we provided them our lunch boxes and explaining

them the cause for which we did, they further told us to extend hands with us. Moreover

they thanked for our support and expect more. Then we also distribute some lunch boxes

to the needy.

Leadership

Our group for this ELA was led by Ali, he possess a referent power, made a behavioral model

and apply consideration method (employee centered) structure. He bears good leader-

member relation with low task structure and weak position power, and holds relation-oriented

leadership style. Our leader is a democratic transformational leader he motivated with path

goal to achieve the desired targets.

Source of power---Referent power

Leader for our ELA holds and uses the Referent power for our group, because he

understand the situation of other members that they must be busy in their other courses also,

so he always coordinate and explain in easy and concern way, he gives time, make see and

understand plan of action and co-ordinate or follow up for its progress, he listen to everyone

and give them time, so that ELA should not be feel like a burden, he bears respect, loyalty

and admiration due to his character in the group.

Leadership Models---Behavioral--Consideration

In our ELA the leader edifice behavioral model, he understand the behavior of every

group member, and designate the task same wise. He has always been seen in care and

supportive for time managing in the group, all these trends tends the group to drive to the goal

automatically.

*Rate for leader, from 1 (never does) to 5 (always does)

Transformational Leader

The leading role of our ELA reflects the transformational leadership, as the leaders share all

information to all the group member, our leader conducted several meetings and

conference call for proper coordination, most of the time it has been observe our leader

blend our concern in the activity hence he engage the members with all involvement and

will.

Consideration Average Ali Kamran Salman Fahad

Friendly, Approachable 5 5 5 5 4

Make fun to be a group member 4 4 5 3 4

Advance notice for changes 5 5 4 5 5

Willing to make change ` 4 4 4 4 3

Treats group member as equal 3 4 4 3 4

Fiedler’s Model ---situation characteristics

In accordance with Fiedler’s model our leader lie in the situation characteristics region, he

leads, switch to various plans and take decision according to situation. He fits in everyone

concern in his decision and initializes the plan. For example during our ELA there was

an external issue that some of the people were keeping an eye over our daily movement

and activities, as soon as the leader and group members identifies them, leader decide to

change our location for collection and minimize the activity for some time, as soon as the

thugs lost confidence from us, we started our campaign again, so this was a good

situational decision.

Leader-member relationship --- Good

Our group adores a good leader-member relationship; all members trust the leader and

have faith and confidence in his plan and strategy that under his leadership we will achieve

our goals.

Task Structure --- Low

Most of the time it has been experienced in our group that due to good friendly

group, all members are going with each other for single task, it reflects the attitude that for

our leader task structure was not high and he prefer social interaction and healthy

relationship overtask structure. Hence we can sum up that our leader has low task

structure.

Position power ---weak

As all of our group members were clear regarding vision and goals, hence our leader

emphasize more on to motivate and to manage the activities. So he interacted weak

position power in ELA.

Fiedler’s Contingency Model

Leader Member Relationship

Good Poor

Task Structure

High Low High Low

Position Power

S W S W S W S W

Kinds of Leadership

I

Very Favorable

II III IV V VI VII VIII

Very Unfavorable

Managerial Effective Relationship Oriented Manager

Contingency model

According to the characteristics of leader our leader lie in the fourth kind of leadership, more

ever he bears an effective Relationship-oriented manager qualities.

Motivation

All our group members were self-motivated and interested in the ELA activities, group

members and leaders have a good compatibility and everyone is aware of the fact to

complete the ELA in the targeted time. It was a fortunate that the group was motivated

themselves and somewhat moral was being catered by the leader related the understanding.

Motivated with path goal

The only method that our leader uses to motivate the members was the path goal theory in

our ELA, our leader clarify all the hurdles and challenges of goals and activities. In

this way the members can see their targets easily and move in motivated and speedy way

to achieve them.

Conclusion of ELA

ELA has enabled us to experience the management theories. We achieve our goal by

practicing these theories and also by acknowledging the theories we are implementing,

started from a group, led by a vision, planned activities, controlled and managed tasks

toward goals; collected funds, finding the right shops for purchasing, purchase itand submit

them at Edhi Centre for distribution and also distribute it among less privileged people, we

again then organize ourselves into a team of friends to continue our vision.

Experiential Learning activity enhances us the sense of working in a group to achieve

specified goals. It has developed the skills of leadership and enlightened us the importance

of motivation to get any work done. In a nut shell, group managing techniques, leadership

style, and motivation and managing the group process has made the group of 4 people

who belongs to different background directed to achieve common goals which has

developed group into a team.