This week you might write about your own experience with organizations, particularly ones that have undergone some change. For example, have you been in an RSO that merged with another RSO and if so why? Or you might talk about some place where you've worked and the organization structure there. Finally, you might talk about "transaction costs" in some of your school or work (or social) relationships. How did the transaction costs matter? Again, the idea here is to tie your own experience to the concepts we are studying to give those concepts more meaning for you.
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I founded a badminton club on campus a couple months ago, aiming to organize a club that people in this community can really enjoy playing badminton instead of play for competition. It did not really operated for long because of the funding issue. In one hand, we did not have the money to rent the court as a RSO and supply shuttlecocks. In the other hand, we really did not want to charge our member for $30 dollars for playing badminton, since people can reserve a badminton court at ARC for personal play for free.
This semester, another personal (let's call her A here) contacted me said that she want to take over the club. So we sat down, had a conversation concerning the situation of the club. She decided to take over the club and radically change the structure of the club. She planned to charge members for $25, and ask member to reserve court themselves so that RSO can avoid the cost of renting courts.
The transaction incurred are the following:Time we spent discussing the past situation and future planning of this club with the new president A. Emails she sent out to explain the new structure, rules and fees of this club. Emails she sent out to clarify the new rules, and warnings to reinforce the on-time payment of the fees. Transfer the contact informations we had to A. Filing paperworks at RSO office to switch the presidency and other authorized agents.
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I founded a badminton club on campus a couple months ago, aiming to organize a club that people in this community can really enjoy playing badminton instead of play for competition. It did not really operated for long because of the funding issue. In one hand, we did not have the money to rent the court as a RSO and supply shuttlecocks. In the other hand, we really did not want to charge our member for $30 dollars for playing badminton, since people can reserve a badminton court at ARC for personal play for free.
This semester, another personal (let's call her A here) contacted me said that she want to take over the club. So we sat down, had a conversation concerning the situation of the club. She decided to take over the club and radically change the structure of the club. She planned to charge members for $25, and ask member to reserve court themselves so that RSO can avoid the cost of renting courts.
The transaction incurred are the following:Time we spent discussing the past situation and future planning of this club with the new president A. Emails she sent out to explain the new structure, rules and fees of this club. Emails she sent out to clarify the new rules, and warnings to reinforce the on-time payment of the fees. Transfer the contact informations we had to A. Filing paperworks at RSO office to switch the presidency and other authorized agents.
There was no need for you to reproduce the prompt. From that I got a sense that you didn't know what to write about or feel comfortable doing so. In the rest of my comments I will try to walk you through some ways you might have profitably extended the post.
ReplyDeleteYou might have started not with the RSO, but rather with simply playing badminton at the ARC. What are the limitations in that? Obviously there must be some because you wouldn't have thought to make an RSO otherwise. Those limitations may be transparent to you, but the are not to be. So you could have started out with your motive for making an RSO in the first place.
Then you could have discussed further the issues with attracting membership. As you noted, students have the free alternative at the Arc. You didn't write enough about the potential benefits form joining the club.
You also could have asked whether it could sustain where some students did join the club but others who played badminton regularly did not, or if only one extreme solution could hold.
Finally, I didn't get a sense of whether you wanted to stop running the RSO and would have let it fold had not the other student contacted you. So you could have spent some more time explain how your own motivation changed over time as you went through this experience.
I suspect there was more than enough information there to get at an interesting telling of the story. You just need to be patient enough to get the story out.
Thank you professor for the comment! I guess I was not fully understood your expectation from the prompt. I definitely have a better understanding now. I will try to post a more detailed post later this week!
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