...in 1986, the company had learned its lessons well. It acted quickly - ordering that Tylenol should be recalled from every outlet - not just those in the state where it had been tampered with. Not only that, but the company decided the product would not be re-established on the shelves until something had been done to provide better product protection. As a result, Johnson & Johnson developed the tamperproof packaging that would make it much more difficult for a similar incident to occur in future. Cost and benefit The cost was a high one. In addition to the impact on the company's share price when the crisis first hit, the lost production and destroyed goods as a result of the recall were considerable. However, the company won praise for its quick and appropriate action. Having sidestepped the position others have found themselves in - of having been slow to act in the face...
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...you are a manager/owner. It is a manager’s duty to point their employees in the right direction, but to provide them with everything they need is just not practical, and in some cases, impossible. Also, the more dependent an employee becomes on a manager, the less adequate he will be on his own. It is essential to provide the proper training and possible resources for success, but to cater to someone’s needs builds dependency, and discourages resourcefulness. A manager should reinforce the idea that being able to find answers is just as good as knowing all the answers. If you catch a fish for a man, he can eat for a day. If you teach him how to fish, he can eat for life. Here is a true Golden Rule that should be added to this list: Praise publicly, reprimand privately. When someone does well, let everyone in the company know. This will create a positive image for the employee and boost his morale tremendously. To let someone know that they are appreciated is a tool that is slowly forgotten and left unused. Public praising creates a culture of positivity and motivation. Other employees will strive for the same recognition, which in return, will increase productivity. However, if an employee does the opposite, a manager should reprimand in private. This will ensure the idea that it is not acceptable to have reoccurring mistakes. Since the employee is held accountable, he should make...
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...University of Phoenix Material Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet In this course, you will write a 700- to 1,400-word Personal Responsibility Essay, due in Week Five, including the following information: • Definition of personal responsibility and what it means to you • The relationship between personal responsibility and college success • A preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in your education This week, using the Center for Writing Excellence resources, provide the thesis statement and informal outline for your Personal Responsibility Essay assignment. Thesis Statement: Even though not everyone takes responsibility for what they do, everyone should be held accountable for their own actions because once we understand the concept of right and wrong we know what is expected of us. We all have been judged by others based on our actions. Informal Outline: People should be held responsible for their actions. It’s always easier to put the blame on someone else but if we continue to do so or allow others to do so we’re hindering ourselves and each other from learning. People will continue to do wrong if we allow them to put the blame on someone else. Why do someone have to be responsible for themselves and you? When you’re working on a task whether it’s for home, work or school it is your responsibility to make sure everything is completed. We are judged based on our actions. When we accomplish something...
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...Actions done by reason of ignorance Every action one proceeds in doing will always have its consequences whether they are good out bad. All actions are governed by two main categories: voluntary and involuntary. It is through these two categories can one determine where the responsibility of the action lies and what is the proper outcome that the person who performs the action should receive. As Aristotle has mentioned, if the act is voluntary one should be praised or blamed, but should be given reason to be pardoned and sometimes even forgiveness if involuntary. However, what can be said about action done out of ignorance? It seems that some actions can be blame on the person who acted and others cannot. The following essay will discuss the concerns on when one is blameworthy for their action and when one is not. An action performed out of ignorance is, as it said, a deed that one carries out unknowingly or not understanding/given complete information of the situation. An example of that would be, if Anne was driving on a highway and a person, Carl, jump out of nowhere. Anne hits Carl and kills him. Anne cannot be blame for killing Carl because Carl had no reason to be there and Anne had no idea if she had continued down the highway she would have killed someone. Of course one could argue that driving can be considered a dangerous act to begin with and that Anne should have been aware of the consequence that might transpire. In spite of this, Anne still should not be blame...
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...I. If I were a voice, a persuasive voice, That could travel the wide world through, I would fly on the beams of the morning light, And speak to men with a gentle might, And tell them to be true. I'd fly, I'd fly, o'er land and sea, Wherever a human heart might be, Telling a tale, or singing a song, In praise of the right - in blame of the wrong. II. If I were a voice, a consoling voice, I'd fly on the wings of air, The homes of Sorrow and Guilt I'd seek, And calm and truthful words I'd speak To save them from Despair. I'd fly, I'd fly, o'er the crowded town, And drop, like the happy sun-light, down Into the hearts of suffering men, And teach them to rejoice again. III. If I were a voice, a convincing voice, I'd travel with the wind, And whenever I saw the nations torn By warfare, jealousy, or scorn, If I were a voice, a convincing voice, I 'd travel with the wind, And whenever I saw the nations torn By warfare, jealousy, or scorn, Or hatred of their kind, I'd fly, I'd fly, on the thunder-crash, And into their blinded bosoms flash; And, all their evil thoughts subdued, I'd teach them Christian Brotherhood. IV. If I were a voice, a pervading voice, I'd seek the kings of Earth; I'd find them alone on their beds at night-- And whisper words that should guide them right-- Lessons of priceless worth; I'd fly more swift than the swiftest bird, And tell them things they never heard-- Truths which the ages for aye repeat-- Unknown to the statesmen...
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...DEVOTIONAL: “Can You Praise Under Pressure?!” List of Helpful Scriptures: * Jeremiah 17:14 * Psalm 118:23 * Hebrews 13:15 * Psalm 117:1-2 * Psalm 100:4 * 1 Peter 1:7 * James 1:3 * James 2:17 How many of us are dealing with a certain situation right now and we just don't see a viable solution? How many have lost their livelihood and feel zombie-like when it comes to their faith? How many of you feel as if God has forgotten you? Well I come to encourage & let you know that you are not alone, but it feels as if the walls are closing in from every side making it difficult to know if God even knows your name. One thing you must remember is that the enemy will attack when you are most vulnerable, and it's not that God doesn't see or hear you in distress, but it's a similar concept that was exhibited in the movie "Ray" (based on the life of legendary music great Ray Charles); as a young boy Ray was trying to cope with the fact that he had completely lost his sight and was declared legally blind. He was running though the house and tripped, as much as he cried out & yelled for his mother's help [and as reluctant as she was] she chose not to wrap her baby in her loving arms, she realized that if she continued to rescue him immediately everytime he got into a troublesome situation he would never learn the lessons she needed him to. When he sensed she wasn't coming he began to listen to his surroundings to guide himself along the way. Well, similarly, we may walk...
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... John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer, once proclaimed, “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” For millennia, the brightest minds of our society have praised mistakes as quintessential for our development as humans. With this in mind, what occurs when one refuses to acknowledge their wrong-doings? Certainly, they would find it exceedingly difficult improve, as they would continue to make the same mistakes time and time again. As such, denial of wrongdoing proves to act as an extraordinarily potent self-defeating behavior that has plagued mankind for millennia. In contemporary society, denial of responsibility remains a pertinent behavioral issue whose devastating implications on relationships and progression can be clearly seen displayed through literature, film, and personal-testimony. One conflict between two allied soldiers in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried offers phenomenal insight into the destructive nature of actively denying one's mistakes. One morning, while two soldiers, Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk, are out on patrol in the jungles of Vietnam, they get into a fistfight over Jensen’s missing jackknife. As Strunk refuses to accept responsibility for stealing the knife, the fight becomes increasingly violent. Eventually, Strunk’s nose is broken and he is then airlifted to a wartime hospital. After Strunk’s return, a growing tension mounts between the soldiers...
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...have shown that praise for intelligence may have negative effects on children’s overall achievement. Students praised for intelligence were found to care more about performance goals relative to learning goals than children praised for effort. In addition, those students praised for intelligence described it as a fixed trait more than children praised for hard work. This is an important study to show what motivational tactics work best for different students. These negative effects can happen when children believe the praise to be insincere or when it leads them to feel pressure to produce future good performance. A study was done that showed that children who hold performance goals are likely to sacrifice potentially valuable learning opportunities in order to get good grades now and to “seem smart.” This could have a negative effect into the future as the children are not learning the material and instead just want to get good grades on the assignments. The researchers in the article hypothesized that the children praised for ability (intelligence) and children praised for hard work when administered after success, would lead children to hold different goals for their achievement and have different responses when confronted with failure. They expected children praised for intelligence to show they had begun to see their performance as a reflection of their ability and work on tasks that would ensure good performance. They further hypothesized that praise for intelligence...
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...In the story called The One Minute Manager, it talks about three secrets to being a great manager. The first secret is One Minute Goal Setting. Which is setting goals that are obtainable, know what good behavior is, writing out each your goals on a single piece of paper using 250 words or less, read and re-read each goal that should only take a minute or so, take a minute every once in a while out of your day to look at your performance, and finally see whether your behavior matches your goals. The second secret is One Minute Praising. The key to One Minute Praising is to tell people up front that you are going to let them know how they are doing, praise people immediately, tell people what they did right being specific, tell people how good you feel about what they did right, and how it helps the organization and the other people that work there, stop for a moment of silence to let them feel how good you feel, encourage them to do more of the same, and finally shake hands or touch people in a way that makes it clear that you support their success in the organization. The third secret is One Minute Reprimand. How this work is to tell people before hand that you are going to let them know how they are doing and in no uncertain terms, reprimand people immediately, tell people what they did wrong being specific, tell people how you feel about what they did wrong using no uncertain words, stop for a few seconds of uncomfortable silence to let them feel how you feel, shake hands or...
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...Organization and Motivation in the Workplace This is a subject that for me is close to my heart. I think that myself personally have been pretty lucky especially with the job that I have now and with one other one that I had in the past. I would say that the management that I have had in the past has been really good, I have had a lot of extras that allowed me to do my own thing in my positions that would also allow me to find other ways of doing my job and of motivating others to do their job as well. The job that I have now is really big on using our ideas and telling us how well we are doing. I don't have any issues with a job or with supervisors that will only reprimand you and never tell you when you do good. I get both, not usually reprimanded but there are times that I make mistakes and there are way more times that I get praised. I think that when you have the chance to be who you are and to give help to your supervisors and other workers that you have a happier workplace overall. I feel in the instance with Ayame, she is really in a position that is needing some change and help. I think that when you are having someone do something that is not only against their culture, but is also against their beliefs you are going to have some very unhappy employees and ones that will not go above and beyond for your company. If Ayame is not happy with her job she is very likely to not do everything that can be done to...
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...spending a great deal of time. One Minute Goals: The basic idea is to set goals and identify what good results look like. They should be done on paper in 250 words or less. Both the manager and employee should individually review the goals and progress regularly to see whether the result matches the expectation. The overall idea of this part is that there should be no surprises because everyone involved should clearly understand the expectation. One Minute Praising: Managers should be trying to catch people doing something right. Managers should tell people in advance that you are going to let them know how they are doing. People should be praised immediately on being caught doing it right. The manager needs to be specific in the praise and tell the person how good it makes you feel and how it helps the organization and other coworkers. The point of one minute praising is to reinforce positive behavior. One Minute Reprimands: This is not a formal heavyweight reprimand. It is supposed to be a gentle correction for poor performance. Once again the manager needs to make sure employees know that you are going to be honest about how they are doing. Just as with praisings, people need to be reprimanded immediately. It’s important to be specific and tell the person how you feel and how it impacts the organization and coworkers. After the reprimand the person should be told how much they are valued and reminded that the manager things well of them, just not...
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...Topic: Attribution theory. I chose this topic because it interests me a lot. I have always had many difficulties when giving feedback to my students, writing reports is the most difficult thing for me to do. I never find the appropriate words, I don´t know how to motivate my students and how to tell them to improve without hurting their feelings. In unit 2 we talked about different topics but this is the one that called my attention. I would like first to summarize what this theory is about. It is widely know that people perceive events in different ways, not only at school but in their everyday lives, when something bad happens to us we generally blame someone or something else for the outcomes but when we do something right or something good happens to us we usually say it is because we for example put a lot of effort in the task, because we are lucky and so on. But, to what do we attribute our failures and success? Many theorists state that we attribute them to four factors, effort, ability, luck and task difficulty. The former factors are said to be internal and the latter external. On the other hand we can categorize them according to stability, in that case effort and luck are unstable and ability and task difficulty are stable. But what does internal, external, stable and stable mean? Internal means from within a person, external the opposite. Stable means that we can control it and unstable means the opposite. For example, a student is sad because he failed in an...
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...Financial meltdown I agree with the basic premises of article one. It did take all of these factors to align in order for such a major financial catastrophe. However, some of these factors are much less important and less to blame then others. In a sense, blaming concerned citizens for there “shock and panic” as a factor for the financial crisis is similar to saying my dog wouldn’t have bit you if you weren’t afraid of him. No, people were only afraid because the actions had taken place. The people had plenty of reasons to be afraid and “shock and panic” along with “severe contraction” were the effects of the outcome, not the causes. I do agree with the financial aspects of article one more. It brings up the key aspects, such as the detriment leverage and the uses of short-term debt to finance investments, which were extremely over-looked by companies. The main thing that the article ignores are the actions of the companies, crimes committed, corruption in government, and the fact that these companies ran themselves into the ground while getting filthy rich. Greed was a large factor in the cause of the crisis. CEOs weren’t happy with the normal compensations; they need a fleet of jets, cruise ships, fancy cars, and drugs at the company’s expense. The inflation rate The second article comes off as more political. The article focuses mainly on what government needs to do in order to correct and “try” to prevent this from happening again. However, the article also...
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...praising the child for the right reasons. A good example would be if the child was aked to clean their room and they immediately went into their room and cleaned up all there toys. This would be an excellent example of proper praising. Unfortunately this example is not realistic and can be a frustrating situation. Some parents will bribe the child to do a task and when the child pushes back the parents will then bribe him/her. Some parents praise the child for doing some of the task asked of them. When I was a child my mother would ask me to complete a certain task. After I had completed the task, my mother would praise me for doing a good job. One day, I was asked to do a task that I always do but this time I went above and beyond. When my mother saw the work I had done, she praised me more than she did before. As a child I saw this as an opportunity to ensure I always get praised for my work. What are the advantages and disadvantges of physical punishment? . How can adults help children develop self-esteem? 2. How and when is it unwise to praise a child? 3. How do caregiving and culture affect later emotional control? 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of physical...
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...(Heffernan, 4). While they agree on the fact that adulation and reward is important, they do not agree on why or who should get an award. Diller insists that the term trophies are common and has little significance since it is awarded to anyone, even those who did not rightfully earn it. Instead of awarding children trophies and praising them for when they did not earn it; he asserts that raising children to have grit and persistence is more important than offering trophies they never earned. On the matter, he referred to Carol Dweck’s research where she concluded that “After studying children's coping and resilience mechanisms for over 40 years, she says too much praise may lead to less resilient children.” (Diller, 6). While Diller concedes that praise is important, the extent to which they are given these praise may be more harmful to a child’s development than we think. What is most important is raising children to have character and contributing to the is more important than of. The writer desires to see children being taught what it is to win and fail as this much more beneficial to their development. More importantly, children should be allowed to experience success and failures; rewarding those successes as well as, teach them to cope and work harder for those awards. In accomplishing this Diller believes “we would help them build the motivation and endurance needed to face real life challenges— e.g. sustaining a long-term marriage or securing employment—two very elusive...
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