Remuneration (recover)

Remuneration can be defined in your own word as reward you get after you have been working for someone, salary/wage will be the most common remuneration. How much you for your remuneration can be varied from your experiences and skills, time constraints, amount of works and other costs.

With a fixed weekly wage, employees will just do as they told to do. To let employees to have more motivation to work harder, that’s where remuneration reward applied on. Beside Monetary, extra payment for overtime work or good achievement, there is also few type of non- monetary remuneration. 1. “Saying thanks/thank you”, this is simplest reward but it’s also the most important and highly valued; 2. Public recognition, thanking an employee for their contribution to a project or good achievement; 3.Symbolic reward, like a certificate or a high mark as in competition; 4.Relatively inexpensive award, bottle of wine, box of chocolate or coupon vouchers; 5.High cost award, can be oversea trip or holiday package, etc…

For our UT3 modeling project, our remuneration would be around $20,000 to $25,000 since we are still exploring as junior designer. And the non- monetary remunerations we are getting from this project are new knowledge, new skills, and experiences on both individual modeling and team collaboration.

reference:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn5305/is_20041004/ai_n24914613

Conflict (recover)

Conflict is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests. A conflict can be internal (within oneself) or external (between two or more individuals). Conflict as a concept can help explain many aspects of social life such as social disagreement, conflicts of interests, and fights between individuals, groups, or organizations. From the definition, you may think that conflict should be avoided to have a healthy and peaceful team environment. Then you are wrong, conflicts are negative but they also have positive outcomes, all depends on how you deal with them. If you chose to ignore conflict or managing your conflict in a wrong way, then the outcomes might be problem unsolved or even getting worst; confusion, feeling resentful or stressful; team or partnership broke up, which will cause failure to keep the project running. On the other hand, if deal with conflict with a good way, your rewards will be a sense of achievement, learnt more about each others with your teammates/partners and makes a stronger relationship and teamwork.

Way to deal with conflict, the most effective way to deal with conflict is to negotiate with the other person involved. Getting angry or aggressive often makes the situation much worse. Much conflict can be resolved if you use a positive and respectful approach - but sometimes this can be very difficult, especially if you or the other person are used to getting what you want by becoming angry, or used to just giving in.

One of the most effective ideas is the win-win approach.

• This approach is about both people being satisfied with the outcome.
• It's about finding out what you both want and where there are areas that you can both agree on, then working towards them.
• It's about working together as partners trying to solve a problem, not as opponents trying to win against each other.
• It's about working together on a basis of mutual respect to find a satisfying solution.

Conflicts happened in our project will be on decision makings, since our intent and knowledge are different, most likely we will come out with different plans. And what we did was getting our plans together and sharing each others intent, then combines them as one to keep the most desire and list out the negative outcomes, to solve or throw them away.

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conflict
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Planning (recover)

Planning is the first step of starting a project. A plan should be a realistic perspective of all expectations such as minimum or maximum time and cost allowed for completing the project, expectable time clashes or member conflict, etc…
Often project planning is ignored in favour of getting on with the work. However, many people fail to realise the value of a project plan in saving time, money and many problems.

As first step will be setting project goals, identify your/your client’s intent and who is this project for, the audience or the users of the project output. Step Two will be using your project goals which defined in step one, make a list of objectives, see which could be best to use for those goals and also find out any difficulties or errors could be make by any situation. Step three - project schedule, list out the tasks, for each task identify the approximate time required to complete and which team member to assign on which task, and also set up a deadline for each task in case of time clashes or uncompleted scheme. Step Four – problem support, expect the unexpected, creates an optional or backup plan in case of any error.

Beside the project plan, there are few other plans to support the project to run smoothly, which will be Human Resource Plan as team member organization, details of each member; communication plan, define the communication tools to use between members on team collaboration; Risk Management Plan, we identify as much risks to our project as possible and prepared to fight them off if they happens.

Reference:
http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/project-planning-step-by-step.html

Context (recover)

When we writing a narrative, the last paragraph always will be the conclusion refer or answering the first paragraph, this could be one of what we called “context”. Context is defined as the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect, the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.

For UT3 modeling project, we are not just to get the dimensions and make the solid models. We also look at the context of the model, and as well as architect’s intent. Our group is modeling an unbuilt building which is on a real site and designed a real architect. By looking at the plans and drawings, it looks really fantastic, but once you look at its details, where the confusions come out. The limitation drawings of the building and the site, and few sentence description of the design, we have to study the site and try to dig out its context from behind its scheme.

Reference:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/context