For the last 3 years, I have been part of the Cornell Wushu club; this year I am on the executive board as Treasurer. As a member of the executive board, I require the trust of the rest of the board and team. In return, they need to be able to trust in me (that I won't misuse the money or steal it). In addition, because we perform a lot of demonstrations throughout the year, we need to trust in each other in order to organize a performance and teach each other different techniques. Just as trust is important for businesses to collaborate, trust is needed for clubs to collaborate and essentially function.
With a high degree of trust established, “organizations can work more efficiently, and adapt more quickly to changing circumstances”(Bos 135). This is very important for my club because the circumstances and space in which we perform changes drastically from one performance to the next. The desire behavior for our club is rather simple; pretty much, a person should attend club practices regularly. That way, the rest of the team, who have a “known past histories or the prospect of future interaction”(Resnick) can get to the know to person and start building trust with that person. In turn, that person will end up learning more basic forms, techniques and eventually weapons forms. The biggest reward system would definitely be getting to learn one or more weapon forms.
Our group doesn’t suffer too much from intervals of delayed or fragile trust because my club is a FtF community; senior members (as well as other members) can pick up non-verbal cues required to make judgments about one’s trustfulness. However, a way our scheme could be manipulated is if a senior member had a secret agenda and for some reason, taught other members of the group the wrong technique. Also, if someone in charge of leading some of the practices all of a sudden stops attending all practices, the rate in which the team learns techniques and moves to be used in demos decreases dramatically. Lastly, misuse of resources by the executive board greatly reduces trust within the team.
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Great post. I really liked how you brought back old class topics and integrated them in your post. It is nice to see everything connect. Your position on the executive board of your club definitely requires a lot of trust, especially when money is involved. I also agree that when groups trust each other they work better together and can adapt to situations better. I have been a member of many groups, and things always work out much better when people trusted each other.
ReplyDeleteI also liked your post a lot. I found that everything that you said about your club was true. Trust is very important in a club like this because each member depends on the other members to learn techniques and other things. Because trust is so important I think that if someone manipulated your scheme it would hurt your club's members that much more. If the trust is manipulated then the extent of knowledge and techniques to be learned will be decreased which is obviously not a good thing.
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