ERAU MGMT 535 Reflection Blog (Pratt)

MGMT 535 (Module 2) Reflection Blog: Taking Someone to Lunch Just a few years before I retired I worked in the Wing Inspector General office.  We rotated who would be the project officer for each inspection as we performed 24 inspections a year.  This one particular time during my turn to be a project officer, I reached out to one of the senior enlisted people in the maintenance squadron we were about to inspect.  This was standard practice because they knew a lot of the leading information we needed to build our inspection.  This specific inspection was particularly difficult, largely due to this individual.  We were the same rank, so when I reached out to her I assumed she would have no problem helping me gather the info I needed.  Unfortunately, she did not see it that way.  She responded to my email request explaining that she didn’t understand what info I needed, why I needed it and that she didn’t have time to “do my job for me”.  After I...

MGMT 535 (Module 1) Reflection Blog: The Meaning of Words The best example I have of commonly used jargon as words would be in the military.  My experience stems mainly from the Air Force, but through the years I definitely was exposed to the other branches and their respective unique jargon as well.  Rather than discuss "made-up" words like hooyah or similar, I'd like to discuss how acronyms are commonly pronounced as words and some unique phrases widely known throughout the military in general.  Acronyms can become real words to the group of people they affect and thusly develop a unique meaning to those individuals.  Words like "OPCON" or "ADCON", which combine operational control and administrative control, respectively, to form pronounceable words.  I would be willing to bet all Air Force members (and likely other branches) know and use these words regularly.  There is also the occasion when an acronym is turned into a word, for exampl...