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.