Monthly Archives: November 2004

Times, they are a’changing

Some­what unex­pec­tedly, the Dean, “Barry Spicer”:http://staff.business.auckland.ac.nz/b.spicer sent out an email to the fac­ulty about “Changes at the Gradu­ate School of Busi­ness”. I say unex­pec­tedly, because tucked at the end of the email was the fol­low­ing: bq. *Peter Smith*, presently Lec­turer in Strategy in the Depart­ment of Man­age­ment and Employ­ment Rela­tions, will take over the role

Answering the question

Since I’ve just fin­ished mark­ing my share of the _MGMT 101 Organ­isa­tion & Management_ exam­in­a­tion scripts, I thought I’d put my reflec­tions down whilst they are fresh in my mind. Over­all, it was a dis­ap­point­ing exper­i­ence. The qual­ity of the hand­writ­ing (which made the scripts hard to read), the qual­ity of the gram­mar (which made

Planning for next year

I think the stu­dents sit their final exam­in­a­tion tomor­row. And so Fri­day and Monday will be taken up with exam mark­ing. The team will be ‘locked up’ and not allowed out until it is fin­ished. But we have already begun plan­ning for next year. I’ll be teach­ing this course at sum­mer school. Since sum­mer school

Sounding out a research site

One of the more dif­fi­cult things to do when car­ry­ing out research is to nego­ti­ate entry into a research site (espe­cially when car­ry­ing out case research, which is what I hope to do). For­tu­nately, “Nigel Haworth”:http://staff.business.auckland.ac.nz/nhaworth provided me with an intro­duc­tion to the Chair­man of my ‘ideal’ par­ti­cipant organ­isa­tion. So today, I met with the

Patterns in the sand

Most of the mark­ing of the Case and Annot­ated Bib­li­o­graph­ies are done. We, DPE, will meet next week to review the marks before releas­ing them. Unsur­pris­ingly some are very good, and some are not. What is sur­pris­ing is the pat­terns that we’ve seen occur­ring in the cases and bib­li­o­graph­ies. Firstly, the mem­bers of each team

Cholesterol still a bit low (and high)

It’s been another three months since I last saw the doc­tor, so it was time for a check up today. My blood pres­sure is bet­ter, only 120/86. I’d like the second fig­ure should be lower, say 70, but it con­tin­ues to head in the right dir­ec­tion. I?ve only lost 3Kg in the last three months.