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 prcised 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.

Informal Group

Friendly Group

Project Leader

General Managers (Operations)

General Manager (Marketing)

Group Tasks And Responsibilities

Group Members

Informal Group Designation Project Leader

Responsibilities

Ali

Team Leading, Motivator, Planning, Decision Making, Distribution, Representative. Managing Resources, Purchasing, Distribution, Executing Backup Plans Negotiator, Disturbance Handler, Video Making, Resource Collector, Monitoring Managing Resources, Purchasing, Distribution, Executing Backup Plans

Kamran

GM Operations

Salman

GM Marketing

Fahad

GM Operations

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 selfmotivated 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

Output Process Group converted into team Task completion Healthy and Compatible attitudes. Norm: Social functional behavior Cohesive, attracted and understanding relations. Output Group converted into team Task completion Healthy and compatible attitudes.

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.

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 leadermember 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

Consideration Friendly, Approachable Make fun to be a group member Advance notice for changes Willing to make change ` Treats group member as equal automatically.

Average 5 4 5 4 3 5 4 5 4 4

Ali

Kamran Salman 5 5 4 4 4 5 3 5 4 3 4 4 5 3 4

Fahad

*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.

Fiedlers Model ---situation characteristics In accordance with Fiedlers 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 structure. overtask structure. Hence we can sum up that our leader has low task

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. Fiedlers Contingency Model

Leader Member Relationship Task Structure Position Power Kinds of Leadership

Good

Poor

High

Low

High

Low

I Very Favorable

II

III

IV

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.