Abstract
This paper documents a practical reflection by the instructor on a university course titled Management of Nonprofit Organizations, triggered by student reports. Originally, the author taught the Principle of Human,Principle of Value, and Principle of Method—proposed by Tsuyoshi Saijo—as a framework for organizational management. However, analysis of student reports revealed that students were utilizing these three principles not merely as isolated techniques, but as an integrated model to understand conflict and explore possibilities for collaboration. By synthesizing this student insight with the concept of common purpose from Drucker’s organizational theory and TOC (Theory of Constraints) discussed in class, this study constructs a Conflict Understanding Model that guides conflicts toward resolution through the discovery of shared goals. This paper clarifies the process through which an instructor, by analyzing student learning outcomes, re-discovers their own course structure and reconstructs their educational practice.
