Note: These questions are here to turn away from the details of this rotation and toward how the lessons and strategies you’ve learned might apply in a variety of real-world situations. The focus is not to add to your writing workload as much as to give you an opportunity for some thoughtful reflection so as to incorporate any thoughts these exercises may have raised for you before you move to another task.

Provide a thoughtful response (about one page) to the follwoing:

• You find out that one of the main ingredients of your favorite foods is from a crop that's recently been genetically modified to grow larger and faster. The media states that if the initial consumer response is positive that there's a high chance that nearly all new harvests will use the GM version of the crop.
  
  
  • What questions you would have about the new version of the crop?
    
    
  • Based on the techniques you know of that could be used, which would you approve of and which wouldn’t you approve of? Why?
    
    
  • Would it matter where the gene(s) that were used in the modification came from?
    
    
  • Is there information about how safety was tested that you would want to know? If so, what would you want to know and why?
    
    
  • How would you use the information you encountered in this rotation to critically evaluate the situation?
    
    
  • What skills and processes you exercised in this rotation could you use to research these issues?

In addition to the above, the Project Manager for the GM Crops section needs to complete the task below.

Provide a thoughtful response (about one page) to the following:

• In this section of the rotation you were in charge of distributing work, ensuring people were completing their work, completing status reports, mediating disagreements within your team, making decisions, and other tasks needed to complete your work as a team. These tasks involve not just doing your own work, but working with others in a way that motivates them to do their own work and contribute to the team.
  
  
  • In what areas of project management do you feel you performed well?
    
    
  • Why do you believe you did perform well in those areas?
    
    
  • In what areas did you not perform very well?
    
    
  • Why do you think you did not perform them well?
    
    
  • How might you improve on those areas in future situations?