Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Reputation about organizations

I want to discuss Facebook's reputation about its working environment and culture in this case because I was impressed by it. I used read some articles about Facebook's working environment and I think Facebook is reknown for it.

In order to complete this blog, I searched some pictures and reviews about it. I could not imagine how a company like this could incent its employees instead of making them lazy in the office. I believe the most important reason for Facebook to create such as open and relaxed working culture is to "free" people because it needs innovations instead of conventions. I have noticed a small detail from one picture: chairs are not in their regular forms but look like books. These innovative lead Facebook employess to be innovative and compose one of the greatest company in the world. The other reason that I can think of is that Facebook create this working environment in order to attract the most talented people. We all know that the importantce of human capitals begins to exceed that of physical capitals in such a highly competitive market. Facebook has many competitors such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. Therefore, it needs to create this kind of reputation in order to attract the best employees and become more competitive. Last but not least, I believe Facebook's working load is high although it has relaxed working environment. Free working environment allows employees to relieve from heavy working load.

Many companies these days begin to learn from Facebook about this reputation in order to attract qualified employees, especially in high technology makets. Although I am not a "Science" person, I do want to have an opportunity to work or at least visit in Facebook and feel its working environment by myself one day.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Personal reputation

My high school student union members always regard me as a reliable person in activities; therefore, when we have teamwork to finish, they always invite me to join in their team. I think this kind of reputation is built gradually through my daily performence during school. For instance, when we have works to do in a given period of time, I often contacted with other members in order to distribute the work as soon as possible. Beside, I tried to finish my part at my earliest convenience; therefore, I could find any problems and deal with them. My classmates used me to tell me that if I was in their group, they would not worry about the project any more.

Usually, I felt good about their trust. I continued trying to do the best job and leading the group with any work. I did not make any special efforts to maintain this reputation; on the other hand, I just maintained my regular working attitudes. Although it is time-consuming and tired to always keep track of works, I found it was pleasant and necessary to keep on working in this attitude.

However, I indeed abandoned my reputation in certain situations in the past. For instance, I remembered the period of time that I needed to prepare my SAT and Tofle test and was under huge pressures for my college application, I did not want to spend a large amout of time on doing extra activities in the student union and I even considered about quiting it. At that time, I always procrastinated and complained about doing too much works. When I went through the application and received relatively sastified good result, I feld regretful and sorry for my group members because I have ruined their trust for me during those weeks. During the following months before I graduated from high school, I devoted much more time in the student union in order to compensate for my mistakes and I had resumed my reputation for my hard working.

I believe it is good to accumulate good reputation because it represents trust from your peers or families to you. Although I might abandon the reputation in some special situations, I try to compensate for my mistakes in order to regain my reputation. Therefore, I will find myself to be a worthwile person.