...Abstract The nature of forgiveness is often misunderstood and misinterpreted. After experiencing organizational damage, trauma, or injustice, one challenge facing leaders is to help the organization heal, restore positive energy, and enhance resiliency. Fostering forgiveness is one effective mechanism for achieving those outcomes. This paper illustrates how justice and forgiveness was analyzed within my workforce and implications established to eliminate the issue from reoccurring. Primary focus will be on interpreting the problem from the perspective of self-responsibility. Keywords: workplace, justice, forgiveness, self-responsibility, accountability, ownership. Justice and Forgiveness in the Workplace Socialization and positive chemistry amongst individuals of any given company is desired yet not always attained. Having a work environment in where most individuals get along not only makes it a suitable environment to work in but also an enjoyable one to be a part of. However, in order to portray such healthy environment one must first analyze the individuals that make up such environment and ask are they here for the betterment of the company or are they just here for a paycheck? This paper discusses the importance of self-responsibility and exemplifies the power of justice and forgiveness. Issue at Hand Within the past, couple months my company had been going through many unforeseen changes. Due to the unsolicited changes, employees’ morale and spirits had...
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...up for trash. While at the hospital, he meets a dying Nazi soldier, by the name of Karl. He listens to his story about what he has done to Jews, the people he’s killed, and his mother. They later have a unique connection with each other. Although, when he’s done telling his story, he asks Wiesenthal for forgiveness and ends up passing away. Wiesenthal remains silent, but later questions himself about his experience whether or not he should have accepted his apology. If I were in his situation, I would have not remained silent and forgave the Nazi soldier because he was not promoting any action of hate, rather than forgiveness, my moral values, and my own experiences. A writer that does not reflect my point of view is Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse states that Wiesenthal should not have forgiven the soldier because it perpetuates the crime. I do not agree with his view completely because in this case, the entire government was promoting evil and majority of people were brainwashed. Also Karl was a growing up child and comprehended the propaganda from a very early age. He was not trying to promote any type of war, but rather forgiveness. For example, when he had asked for forgiveness, Wiesenthal had second thoughts after he had remained silent. “Had a doctor entered the room with a miracle drug that would have restored this young man to full vigor, would he have remained weighed down with guilt? And had the German Army then offered him whatever was the Nazi equivalent to a Purple Heart...
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...The paradox of forgiveness is one that has been debated by philosophers for centuries. In a sense, by asking someone for forgiveness you are influencing their ability to forgive you for themselves. Forgiveness starts within the self, because of some outside force or action. Therefore, the desire to forgive begins in one’s self. By allowing an outside force (i.e. someone asking for forgiveness) to nudge you towards needing to forgive, your personal and moral desires to forgive are affected. By asking for forgiveness, you are taking the right away for someone’s forgiveness to be truly their own forgiveness. However, it is their forgiveness that you desire. This fascinating paradox is one that has puzzled the minds of many. But what about the...
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...say in the Creed " I believe in the forgiveness of sins." I had been saying it for several years before I asked myself why it was in the Creed. At first sight it seems hardly worth putting in. "If one is a Christian," I thought " of course one believes in the forgiveness of sins. It goes without saying." But the people who compiled the Creed apparently thought that this was a part of our belief which we needed to be reminded of every time we went to church. And I have begun to see that, as far as I am concerned, they were right. To believe in the forgiveness of sins is not so easy as I thought. Real belief in it is the sort of thing that easily slips away if we don't keep on polishing it up. We believe that God forgives us our sins; but also that He will not do so unless we forgive other people their sins against us. There is no doubt about the second part of this statement. It is in the Lord's Prayer, it was emphatically stated by our Lord. If you don't forgive you will not be forgiven. No exceptions to it. He doesn't say that we are to forgive other people's sins, provided they are not too frightful, or provided there are extenuating circumstances, or anything of that sort. We are to forgive them all, however spiteful, however mean, however often they are repeated. If we don't we shall be forgiven none of our own. Now it seems to me that we often make a mistake both about God's forgiveness of our sins and about the forgiveness we are told to offer to other people's...
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...the topic of forgiveness Chasity Webster PSY 400 Martin Methodist College Forgiveness is one of the most compassionate things that we can do for one another. The term is greatly misinterpreted and because of this it is not often given in the truest sense of the word. Forgiveness requires finding and feeling compassion and then being able to let go of anxiety, anger and yearning for revenge. Letting go of grudges and bitterness can make way for compassion, kindness and peace. In an article reviewing compassion, the authors define compassion as the feeling that arises in witnessing another’s suffering and that motivates a subsequent desire to help. The definition theorizes compassion as an affective state defined by a specific independent feeling, and it differs from treatment of compassion as an attitude (Goetz & et. al 2010). According to Webster’s Third Edition, to forgive is to cease to feel resentment against, on accord of wrong committed, to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon an offender, to absolve; pardon. Generally, forgiveness is a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge. The act that hurt or offended you might always remain a part of your life, but forgiveness can lessen its grip on you and help you focus on other, positive parts of your life. Forgiveness can even lead to feelings of understanding, empathy and compassion for the one who hurt you. Forgiveness doesn't mean that you deny the other person's responsibility for hurting...
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...Grace and Mercy Niiyah Johnson According to The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the English spelling of grace comes from the French word grace. The word grace goes back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries when it was spelled grass or grease. The history of grace originated from the Latin word gratia which lead to the Spanish word, gracia, the Portuguese word, graca, and the Italian word, grazia. The first definition given in the OED is "pleasing quality, gracefulness." Another definition for grace is "favor." A favor is usually asking someone to do something for you that you don't deserve. When I think of the word grace, I think of something wonderful and powerful. To me, grace is a gift from God. I have always known its definition to be "receiving what is undeserved." An example of grace is forgiveness. No one "deserves" to be forgiven. Forgiveness is something we "undeservingly receive." So, that makes forgiveness a form of grace. I learned these things from my parents and church sermons. Grace is a big part of my life because it allows me to love and forgive others. If I were not living under "God's grace" I wouldn’t be able to forgive others as easily as I do. Because grace is a gift, there is nothing that we as humans can do to earn the grace of God because it is given to us. The word grace has been around for many years. Grace's meaning began as one which applied to attractiveness. It was later used to mean favor and then to mean gratitude. Mercy is "not...
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...This form of forgiveness is a business transaction that involves a creditor absolving the debtor from paying back a debt. Dictionary.com defines this aspects of forgiveness as a financial pardoning of debts: “To give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.) (Dictionary.com para.2). In this manner, forgiveness has nothing to do with an emotional pardon, but it is more related to relieving a financial burden of a debt by the creditor. For instance, a banking institution has given a loan to a local business, which has failed to successfully pay back the loan. Due to a bad economy, the government may allow the business to declare bankruptcy, which would forgive the individual owner(s) of the business for not paying back the loan. Under these dire circumstances, the government and the bank may forgive the loan (and the recurring interest that ahs been accruing on the loan) due to the impossibility of the debtor paying back the loan. This is an important interpretation of forgiveness, since it is often utilized in business or financial language as a way to relieve the debt of an individual. This is why the word ‘forgive” is primarily asking the creditor to “give up all claims” on the debt in order to resolve an extremely difficult financial circumstance. At first, a creditor or banker may not understand the...
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...Name Tutor Unit Date of submission Simon Wiesenthal Acted Right by not forgiving the Nazi, Karl, for his for his crimes against the Jews The reality of forgiveness is one of the hardest things incomprehensible in the human life. Throughout our lives, we are faced with a number of challenging situations that understanding them goes beyond the conscience of our thoughts. The ease at which we forgive largely depends on the nature and the effect of the actions that require forgiveness. Simon Wiesenthal’s novel, The Sunflower is one of the narratives that leave us in dilemma on whether Wiesenthal should forgive the dying soldier (Nazi, Karl) or not. However, I support Wiesenthal’s act of moving away from the dying soldier rather than just forgiving him for his past deeds. Karl actions towards the Jews are an act of inhumanity that requires deep heart, mind, and soul searching. Despite the fact that Karl is dying, Simon should not forgive since the dying soldier is still better placed in the society as compared to the Jews. He will receive a decent burial, as he will be buried in a graveyard with sunflower lighting his dark grave. I believe that not forgiving Karl for his actions is better than forgiving him. Simon has acted to his level’s best by listening to Karl’s confession. Therefore, it is best for him to leave Karl face the consequences of his crimes, victims, and sins (Wiesenthal, Simon, Harry, Cargas, and Bonny 25). By doing this, it provides Karl with the best opportunity...
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...Cameron Becker Phi 102 Reflection #3 02//15 This reaction is going to be a little bit different then the other ones I just want to talk about the whole religion thing. I know it's a hot button issue but I just can't understand how there is no belief in something like A higher power by some people not in a way that you have to go to church but just using the idea as something to talk to or to help you get through it. I asked u whom do you turn to in times of need or depression when you feel totally alone. I know you said strangers but it can be argued that maybe that stranger was supposed to help you. I do hate the idea of gods will over free will but not having something to believe in just seems really empty to me almost like a life unfulfilled, what do you wait for? What do you live for? I guess the “right now” the present over the future. But what about the poor, or the sick, the ones that don't live to be 100 those aren’t able to spend their time on earth to the fullest? Can't there be something offered to them will comfort the time they spent on earth that is unfulfilled? Telling someone sick to come to heaven and sit next to the lord or to be reborn as something else on earth to fulfill that creature journey? It's just really tough for me. I have battled with religion and spiritually and faith a large portion of my life. I was raised catholic but still to this day have not been baptized I remember going to church with my grandma on Sunday's and midnight mass on Christmas...
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...Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" and "Sin against the Holy Ghost" Author(s): Gerard H. Cox, III Source: Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Feb., 1973), pp. 119-137 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3816592 Accessed: 07/11/2010 15:38 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucal. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. University of California Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access...
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...invocation coming from Colossians 3:12-17. The service proceeded with Aretha Wilson. Soon after a group called "M.A.S.K" graced the stage with their praise dances. My spirits were uplifted. The freshman members of Concert Chorale came onstage to sing "Speak to my Heart". The leader of the chorale discussed how his grandmother had recently passed and the song related to him. The speaker was Hakeem Lewis. He is the Vice President for Advancement. His job is to get money for the school. The speaker asked us "What would we do if God offered us a divine apology?" He also mentioned that we need to forgive because it is the center of everything we do. I was inspired by the quote Mr.. Lewis mentioned. "Generational curse doesn't exist if generation forgiveness does." It is imperative that we forgive....
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...“THE PRODIGAL SON Luke 15:11-32 In the New Testament, there is a parable entitled “the lost son”. In this passage we begin to learn and understand the compassion and care that the Father feels for us, his sheep. We also get insight on the awakening that happens with the son. The parable of “the lost son” was written in the book of Luke. Although we don’t officially know who wrote this book it is believed to have been written by Luke which was a friend and close follower of Paul. The book of Luke gives us different details on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Included are numerous places he traveled and parables he used in which to get a lesson learned. It is also believed that Luke was written in the latter part of the first century, somewhere around Ephesus or Smyrna. This is important because it allows us to know the culture and geographical location in which Luke may have been influenced by in his writings and or interpretations of the teachings. There are a couple of words that are significant in this particular passage. These are lost and found. The denotation of the word lost is no longer in possession of; or the one I like to use is beyond reach, communication, or influence. This is important because it makes us aware of the state in which his son had been in for the last few years. The other is found, and its meaning is to bring into being, set up...
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...before Joseph, who was governor of the land. He knew who his brothers were immediately, although did not reveal his identity. He acted as a stranger to show his brothers that he was truly a better person. They were allowed to buy grain, and he provided provisions for their journey and refurbished their money. This shows that he sought to show his brothers forgiveness them for mistreating him so. He accused his brothers of being spies, by bringing Benjamin to Egypt, it showed he that his brothers in fact did not recognize him and were not there to spy or harm him again. This is important because Benjamin was a favored child, such as Joseph. The moral of the story is all about forgiveness. God put Joseph through many struggles; his brothers leaving him in the pit, being sold into slavery, accused of lying with Potiphar’s wife, imprisonment and being forgotten by the butler. Each of these happenings could have caused Joseph to become pessimistic, unforgiving and possibly evil; although Joseph had God with him through all his strife, the narrartor tell us.. God had a plan for Joseph to triumph all negative things and show forgiveness and spread it through his story. He believes that God’s plan eventually led him to saving his brothers lives. If not for all the bad things that happened to Joseph, his brothers may not have been granted grain during the famine. There would have been another person in charge instead of Joseph being there that denied the brothers and surely they would have...
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...the solid earth, everything grows very quiet. All look at the lumberjack, who killed this tree, and find him weeping in sorrow. This situation is not uncommon when dealing with Nature. Nature, as simple as it seems to some, generates great power. This power is sent to us, as nature forgives only after a physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" helps implement all these teachings together. In current times, this power continues to teach us of forgiveness. With physical suffering, the power of nature shows us forgiveness many ways. In the story, the mariner betrays nature: "I shot the Albatross!" This action against nature is rather extreme, for he takes lightly to this thought of death. The Albatross, as a representative of nature, means nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as Nature begins to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." When "the mariner begins to find his salvation when he begins to look on the 'slimy things' as creatures of strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of nature and he realized what he had done wrong. The mariner is forgiven after sufficient penance - "We could not speak" - is performed by Nature. Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can not forgive someone who has shot...
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...Forgiveness Forgiving someone who you believe has done wrong to you is a very difficult thing to do. Some people live their entire lives unwilling and unable to forgive someone else and carrying this burden on their shoulder all through their lives. For some, a grudge rakes place when you focus on the bad things that you think has happened to you. For others, a grudge is silent and you think you’re over it, but then you discover you still haven’t forgiven the other person. The only person being hurt by you not being able to forgive is YOU. Often, the other person doesn’t even realize you have these bad feelings because, they think everything is okay between the two of you. With that being said forgiving someone is hard but, if you do things between you and that person would become much better. Forgiveness is the key to life. It is very important to forgive someone no matter what they have done to you in the past. If you haven’t forgiven someone they tend to be on your mind a lot or either the situation that may have took place. Many people go on with their lives knowing that they haven’t forgiven someone and the guilt tends to eat them alive. You would also feel even terrible if the person whom you haven’t forgave passes away. The most important thing is too forgive once you forgive you will be able to finally move forward in your own life. You’ll feel as though a huge weight and burden has been lifted off of your shoulders. While forgiveness may not always be easy, it is...
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