Monday, January 11, 2010
Collective action of PRM-30
Our economics professor Atulan Guha was just taken aback by the behavior of our batch today. All of the participants created chaos at his desk while forming groups for assignment and some defaulters did their job by writing their names in groups of their choice irrespective of their lottery chits. It came to notice when some participants had chits but no left over space in the list. So close monitoring is very must in any collective action, be it of IRMANs. What about the wastage of time and resources during this lottery process. Should we learn something??
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This incident could be a perfect example of the free rider problem. This depicts the rational benefits-oriented approach of some of the participants.Some participants wanted to take advantage, which resulted in the collective action being a failure. Further it has hampered our class's reputation and has set a roadblock for future collective actions.
We, as a batch must be ashamed of these kinds of acts. Because of few participants the reputation of all of us is tarnished. What is disturbing is that it shows lack of integrity in us. If for such petty things we can stoop to such levels then God only knows what will happen in future when we may be assigned important tasks with full faith and no one to monitor us.
More than having degree from reputed institutes it is important that we have CHARACTER which will go a long way in making us successful.
SHASHVAT SINGH (30044)
People are scared to attach or form groups with people who are known to be "free riders" or "process benefiters" in a group. It is a simple example of less number of selfless utilitarians in our class. Hence the snowballing effect not triggering.Probably people have learnt from Raju sir that one should not be always attached to "Lose" side of "Win-Lose" situation.So after 1 st term they know how to deal with these people.
Let’s go to the crux of the problem. The "full utilitarians(fullut)"(most of class) as well as "free riders(f.r)" wanted to take advantage of "selfless utilitarians" also the fullut tried to avoid joining such groups which had free riders in it. but this action was a win lose situation as it only benefited those who defected, tarnishing the image of batch; later turning to lose lose as new allocations negated their benefits along with tarnished image of batch. Hope such incidences don't take place.
Govind kumar rai
p30080
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