Student Name: ANG GAO
Student Number: 3813958
Week 7 Journal
We had an activity called “lost on the moon” in this week’s lecture and we achieved 41 points, which is close to the likely score-30 points. In the whole process of this activity, we used win/lose conflict management strategy to solve our conflict. For instance, when our group members held different opinions on an question, we would vote for different options and we would always choose the one with the majority approvals, which means the minority had to compromise in order to meet our agreements. I thought it brought short term solutions to immediate problems in that situation, because our time was limited. Lastly, it turned out to be good effectiveness on the result of our activity.

During this week’s activity, I preferred to use win/win strategy to cooperate with my group members. However, it is really difficult to satisfy everyone’s need, so sometimes I had to use win/lose style to achieve our goals. For example, when answering some questions, I gave others my answers and explained that why they were reasonable, but sometimes in this activity, my win/lose strategy did not work so well, because I fail to convince them to use my answers.

When people interact with each other, it’s quite hard to avoid conflict, so I also have conflict with my friends sometimes. For example, my friend and I hang out in the city three weeks ago, we had a conflict on what kind of food to eat. My friend wanted to eat Malaysian food, but I want to eat Sichuan spicy food. After telling him that I do not like Malaysian food and it was my last choice, he said that he would eat Sichuan food this time and next time I should have Malaysian food with him. So we went to China Red to eat spicy food, however he sweat a lot and could not stand that kind of spicy food. Finally, he did not satisfy with this. I think what we acted in