Monday, February 3, 2014

Team Introduction

Team 04:


Leader: 
IMAN BTE MD KAMAL

Group Members:
MARDHIYAH BTE ALIP
LIM YUN HAN
SHANDY TAN XIN YI


Problem Analysis:



Driving Question for Team Project:



Providing social good, who profits?


Presentation done using:

(Prezi)

    Response to the Driving Question

    Response: The government, beneficiaries, the company and the society. 

    The government:


    From the article above, we can see that when the governments of Japan and Korea expanded social expenditures, it has helped to boost and improve the country's economy and therefore it is benefiting the Government.

    The beneficiary:

    From the video, I can see that the beneficiaries (Youths @ Risk and Ex-Convicts) have found a way to be re-integrated into the Society. With Eighteen Chefs, they benefit in a way that they are given a chance to showcase what they are capable on. 

    The company:



    From the two websites above, we can see that social enterprises are recognized for their good work and effort to help the society.Thus, they receive recognition and awards as rewards and benefits for all their handwork.


    The society:





    Based on the articles above, we can see that the society benefits from a lot of ways like: 
    1) Education 
    2) Environment
    3) Health care
    4) Poverty
    5) Sanitation

    Justification of Response

    When our team was first given the Driving Question (Providing social good, who profits?), we thought that the topic on social good was very vague. Before we started on coming up with the response to the Driving Question, we thought that it will good to use the Analysis Process to analysis the Driving Question. Through it, we find that we would like to associate doing social good with the start-up of Social Enterprises. Social Enterprises are businesses that are set up to maximise improvements in the human and environmental well-being, rather than maximising profits for external shareholders. Our team has defined social good as something that is shared and beneficial for all (or most) members of a given community. After much discussion, our team has come to a conclusion that the government, the beneficiaries, the company and the society are the ones who will be profited from social good being done. We will be researching on artefacts that will support our response with sufficient reasoning. We will have one artefact each to support the various groups of people who will benefit, and one artefact in general.

    Justification for the Government
    Based on the article we have extracted, we can see that initially the Government of Japan and Korea were reluctant t to expand social expenditures because they had stable economic at that point of time, which was around the mid 1990s. However, when economic crises struck around late 1990s, they decided to venture on social expenditures because more people are facing financial difficulties. Due to that, it has helped to tackle the problems faced by the people during the economic crisis.

    Justification for the Beneficiaries
    To support that social good profits the beneficiaries, we have used Eighteen Chefs as an example. This restaurant hires the youths at risks and ex-convicts to work here.

    "Here you can draw on the walls, order up to a thousand different combinations of baked dishes. But most of all, this is a place for change. Here, ex-convicts and drug addicts get a second chance in life."
    This quote shows that the beneficiaries like drug addicts and ex-convicts can benefit from the good that is being done by getting a second chance and also get to change themselves and start a new life.

    Gary, from Boys Town, a juvenile place for delinquents quoted that: 

    "Before that, I have a bad attitude. But slowly, he (Benny) taught me how to be a better man"
    This also shows that the beneficiaries are being helped and taught to become a better person so that they can get accepted into the society. And because of that, Gary is a full-time chef in Eighteen Chefs.

    With this action, this group of people are given a chance to re-integrate back into the society, and is not seen as a useless group of people.



    Justification for Companies (Social Enterprises)
    To support that social good profits the company, we have the awards that the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) has won with the help of the work of the beneficiaries. They have been awarded the ISO 9001;2008 certificate and has also received the 4 year EduTrust award for having achieved satisfactory to commendable performance in key areas of management and the provision of educational services. This example has showed that, the company will gain profit and even recognition through its work of providing social good.

    Also, there is a President's Challenge Social Enterprise Award to recognize the "outstanding social enterprises which are innovative and have made significant sustained contributions to the disadvantaged in our community."

    This shows that by doing good and helping out the society, the companies can also gain benefit and awards for all their hard work in shaping a better society.



    Justification for Society
    We have made a cross-reference based on the two articles that we found (set 4 change Wordpress and Conversations for a Better world), and it shows that the society is benefiting in terms of Education, Sanitation, Health and Poverty.

    We have found a video on a Social Enterprise, World Toilet Organization, that helps with the Sanitation of the people living in poor countries. Based on the video, we found out that the cause of 1.5 million deaths of children under the age of 5 every year is because of contaminated water and bad sanitation. Therefore, the clean and proper toilet that they (society/people) get will help them overcome their problems.

    This is how we arrive in the conclusion that with doing social good, it has brought benefit to the government, the beneficiaries, the company and the society. 

    Project Log

    Time Log for Team 4
    (IMAN BTE MD KAMAL, MARDHIYAH BTE ALIP, LIM YUN HAN & SHANDY TAN XIN YI)
    Meeting No.
    Date
    Time
    What did we do?
    1
    27-Jan-14
    0830hrs-0920hrs
    ·         Team introduced to driving question
    ·         Discussion of what is needed to be included in the e-portfolio
    ·         Coming up with our stand and further analysis


    0950hrs-1030hrs
    ·         Discussed outline for e-portfolio (Prezi)
    ·         Doing flowchart of presentation


    1040hrs-1130hrs
    ·         Creating of Google Blogger
    ·         Putting our information into Blog Posts
    ·         Brainstorming
    ·         Came up with Introduction, Log Book, Evaluation Tools
    2
    30-Jan-14
    1400hrs-1600hrs
    ·         Creation of Team Whatsapp Group that will facilitate communication in team
    ·         Identifying of things that needs to be included in E-portfolio, as taken from file “Description of Project Work” in Week 12 Problem Statement Folder
    ·         Editing made to contents in Google Blogger
    ·         Came up with Problem Analysis, to set objective clear for the team as to what needs to be done
    ·         Updates of contents in Google Blogger


    1700hrs-1730hrs
    ·         Change of design template of blog
    ·         Included titles of posts needed in the E-portfolio
    3
    3-Feb-14
    0840hrs-1035hrs
    ·         Continuation of work (as from previous week)
    ·         Starting of Evaluation Checklist
    ·         Coming up with response to the Driving Question
    ·         Researching on artefacts to support our response to the Driving Question
    ·         Linking artefacts back to the Driving Question


    1230hrs-1315hrs
    ·         Stating reasons to how the artefacts is used to link back to our response on who benefits from social good
    ·         Completion of the response to the Driving Question


    1400hrs-1415hrs
    ·         Edited the order of presentation of the blog posts on the blog
    ·         (Content should go with the flow, for example, Team Introduction at the top of the page and the Bibliography at the bottom of the page.)
    4
    8-Feb-14
    1230hrs-1330hrs
    ·         Finalising discussion done at Whatsapp group
    ·         Consolidating of everyone’s Individual Reflection
    ·         Finishing up of Prezi presentation (Mardhiyah)
    5
    10-Feb-14
    0845hrs-1315hrs
    ·         Completion of Individual Reflection
    ·         Touch up on the whole blog
    ·         Edit of justification of artefacts
    ·         Discussion on flow of presentation
    ·         Completion of work!

    Evaluation Checklist

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13Cje2siaQrXF6zJyrQqFtVqAqq6yYGHm6SRvNUO29FE/viewform

    Analysis and Reflection

    (a) Analysis Process

    Step 1:
    Purpose: Who will profit from the social good


    Step 2:
    Major question: Providing for the social good, who profits?

    Step 3: 
    Sub-question 1: Who (which group of people) will it affect?
    Sub-question 2: Who (which group of people) can benefit from it?
    Sub-question 3: What is (team's definition of) Social Good?
    Sub-question 4: Can it (the social good done) be tangible or intangible?

    Step 4:
    Factors to measure profits?
    Factor 1: Does it improve the lives of the target audience?
    Factor 2: Is the income generated sufficient enough?
    Factor 3: Does it benefit the society as a whole?
    Factor 4: Does it leave an impact on the people who profits?

    Step 5: 
    Using the cause-effect analysis.

     Causes
    Effect 
     Identified the needs of social good.
     Try to provide solution & ideas ( eg. Creating job opportunities) 
     Have the capability.
     Contribute their resources (eg. Monetary, manpower, network.)
     Makes a difference in other people's life.
     Influence people. (Traditional Vs SE).
     Passion & Urge.
     Be more willing to be involved in activities/ programme (eg. visiting, voluntary work)


    (b) Elaborations and Reflections

    i) Search strategy taken and how information gathered is evaluated and decided fit to use,
    ii) Feedback solicited from peers and facilitator is used and worked into your response to the Driving Question.

    i) Search strategy : Google, Organisation Websites, YouTube
     We focus on Social Enterprise related issues in Singapore to justify our stand. 
    -Searching from reliable websites.
    -Cross-referencing to other videos/ information.
    -Finding related articles/ case studies.
    -Focus on how the Social Enterprise manage to help the different group of people.

    ii) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13Cje2siaQrXF6zJyrQqFtVqAqq6yYGHm6SRvNUO29FE/viewanalytics

    Improve on:
    - Background
    - Further elaborate on the individual groups of people who benefit
    - Use cross-reference to further support our stand
    - Use analysis process to help in answering our driving question


    (c) Individual Reflections

    i. What are the qualities which I possess now that is crucial to 
    being a successful professional in my field? 
    ii. What are the areas which I need to develop to speak, think 
    and behave like the professionals in my field? 

    Name of Student
    Individual Reflection
    IMAN BTE MD KAMAL
    The qualities I possess now which is crucial to being a successful professional in my field is that I am timely and do things according to what is needed. I try my best to make sure that my work is being handed up on time, or before the due date, and also will try to accomplish the necessary contents that is needed in the work. I feel that being able to hand up the work on time is very crucial because if one were to hand up the work late, it will set a negative impression on him or her. Also, being able to meet the contents as required will let people know that you understand what needs to be done and also, make the work structure clear and neat. Areas in which I need to improve in is to have confidence and also how I can try different ways to answer the question, rather than just following the usual. Having confidence is important because if I do not have it, I will keep doubting my own work and keep on finding more information to further justify my answers. This will lead to things like me not meeting the contents as required as too many information has been added, which might not be necessary. To add on, finding more ways to convey my answers can make me stand out from the rest of the people. This is because if everyone were to do the same thing, the answers given will all look the same.
    MARDHIYAH BTE ALIP
    One of the qualities that I now possess that is crucial for the field in my profession is perseverance. This is because that no matter what happens in my work, I need to continue and move forward because giving up will not let me go anywhere. It goes the same way for doing the project work for the past weeks. Initially, I had a hard time figuring out what to do for the project work. However, I tried to seek help from my teammates and also my facilitator to further explain the problem to me and slowly, I managed to understand the problem bit by bit. And now, I have a clearer vision on how to do the problem.


    One of the areas in which I need to develop to speak, think and behave like the professions in my field is my confidence. This is because I have low self-confidence and it always holds me back from voicing out my thoughts, ideas and opinions. My low-self-confidence has also caused me to miss a lot of opportunities because I am always afraid that I am not capable enough to do things even before trying it. Therefore, I need self-confidence in my field of profession so that I can be brave enough to try and venture new things as social enterprises is mostly about innovation. I need to be more confident and outspoken so that I will be able to mix around and get to know the rest of social entrepreneurs and the beneficiaries.
    LIM YUN HAN
    One of the qualities would be passion, it is very crucial because if I don’t have the passion in what I do then I wouldn’t have a purpose and meaning in whatever I’m doing and wouldn’t be suitable to be a social entrepreneur. Another quality would be heart of compassion, if I don’t have it then I wouldn’t be able to understand their need and it wouldn’t drive me to do something to change and impact the lives of the less fortunate people. Some things I need to develop which is being able to speak confidently in front of people to bring out what I want to say because sometimes when I speak to large group of people I may feel afraid and lose my train of thoughts, I also need to be able to plan ahead and be flexible when things don’t work out because when something goes wrong I would panic and don’t know what to do and I will feel very stress, and I also need to be daring because if I don’t dare to take risk and continue to stay in my comfort zone then I wouldn’t be able to learn and explore new things.
    SHANDY TAN XIN YI
    Personally, I feel that the qualities I possess now which will be crucial for me to become a successful professional in my field will be ensuring that all the required/ necessary details are well elaborated and accomplished. I will constantly do thoroughly checks to ensure all requirements mentioned are met. Also, I believe that I will be able to provide adequate guidance/ ideas throughout the process of accomplishing something. I tend to think of innovative ideas to ensure that the plans are “fresh” so as to be able to attain attention from the audience. However, I believe that there are areas that I will need to further develop so as to be more professional in my field. Some of the areas will be my punctuality and to be more outspoken/ confident with my stand on various issues. As we know, punctuality is an important factor when it comes to work because it will determine your professionalism and it will leave a deep first impression on someone. In addition, being outspoken/ confident with my stand will also be able to help bring about my point of view and share about my opinion on something which will be beneficial for the various major decisions that will be going to determine the success of something. Thus, I believe that if I were to improve on these areas, I will be able to be a more reliable and credible person someone will choose to turn to, be it for advice or respect.   

    Bibliography

    1) The young do-gooders who profit from their ethics, retrieved 1 February 2014, http://travel.cnn.com/singapore/shop/singapores-student-social-entrepreneurs-347424

    2) Eighteen Chefs, retrieved 3 February 2014, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3uV5jnRh9Q

    3) Social Enterprises, retrieved 3 Febrary 2014, http://www.ymca.org.sg/Web/main.aspx?ID=753a796e-93ee-49f2-b970-c9d4893f0c60

    4) Realising Singapore Social Enterprise Employment Potential, retrieved 3 February 2014, http://www.edenstrategyinstitute.com/consulting/impact/case2

    5) Key highlights from Mashable’s Social Good Summit for United Nations Week, retrieved 3 February 2014, http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/key-highlights-from-mashables-social-good-summit-for-united-nations-week/

    6) President's Challenge Award, retrieved 3 February 2014,
    http://www.pc.org.sg/socialenterpriseaward