A coalition is when two or more people come together and form a type of partnership to achieve a common goal. There are internal and external coalitions. Internal coalitions are when people from the same company/organizations come together to figure out things such as employee wages, benefits, or a type of working condition. It is internal so it is specifically about the environment they control/are working in. The external coalition deals with people who are members of different organizations that come together and collaborate and achieve whatever goal they had planned. People who form coalitions use synergism to come up with the greatest possible outcome that they want to reach as a group.
An example of a time I used a coalition was last semester. It was about a specific new professor in the marketing department. All three of his classes were very confused about what he was teaching us in class because he was not a good teacher. Everyone was clueless when the first exam came around. When we would go to office hours to ask questions or ask questions in class he would not even know how to answer them, which left the classes even more frustrated and mad. A couple of us formed a coalition to go to the dean of marketing and expressed our concerns. We were all seniors at Shippensburg and needed to pass this class in order to graduate. After we spoke to the dean he did not do much, but told us to go talk to the professor about it. So we took our group and went to speak to the professor about how we felt. Unfortunately, nothing changed. The average test scores were all within the 50%-60% range so we knew as students we were not doing anything wrong.
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