...PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COLLEGE SUCCESS 1 Personal Responsibility and College Success Francisco C. Lujan Gen/200 February 24, 2012 Brad Volmar Personal responsibility is the lifestyle we choose to live whether it’s maintaining our health, self discipline & respect, spirituality, one’s outlook on life, decisions one makes, and accepting responsibility for one’s actions. A person’s attitude, ambition, and self- discipline can determine educational success. All three of these traits are used in our everyday living can lead to academic achievement. Setting goals whether they be short or long term can be a deciding factor on our future also. It is my belief that people are given the talents and abilities to be what they want to be but it is their decision to make it happen. I am living proof that personal responsibility is a strong factor for who I am today and who I’ve become. Prior to having my first daughter while living in Hanau, Germany, I did not have the responsibilities that came with being a father and in fact it took some getting used to over time. I noticed that...
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...In the world today there are many times that an individual may find themselves challenged with making an important moral decision. The individual will have to use his or her personal, professional, and organizational ethics in order to provide what he or she believes to be the correct action to take. This dilemma is encountered by the working force everyday. The three primary areas of ethical behavior must be clearly understood by all, to allow for an ethical “balance” in the world. Personal Ethics Personal ethics differ from person to person depending on numerous influences throughout ones life. Influences such as parents, religion, culture, environment, life experiences, and law all have a role in shaping personal ethics. Even though law does influence ethics, law is a last resort when private morality does not prevail (White, 1996). These principles learned help guide a persons actions and aid in their decision making process. A wise man once said, “Ethics is not simply what is “right” or “wrong”, it’s having the courage to do the right thing”. An example of a personal ethics dilemma: A man is out walking his dog in Little Italy and notices a woman drop her watch when exiting a cab. The woman is quickly approaching him on the sidewalk. Does he tell her that she dropped the watch? Or does he pick it up and keep it for himself? If the man is of good character he will tell the woman she dropped her watch. This lack of personal gain is an excellent example of proper...
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...Successful Responsibility Personal responsibility is taking ownership for your actions and holding yourself responsible for the decisions you make. This is something that is instilled in us from the time we started school in kindergarten, as well as while growing up through our parents. We live in a victimized world that is too quick to blame another for our misfortunes, but even faster to be held accountable for our accomplishments. Accountability, structure and gratification all come with having personal responsibility. Structure gives you the ability to manage your time and prioritize your demands. Accountability gives you the opportunity to grow by learning from your mistakes and flourishing through your accomplishments. Gratification also comes with personal responsibility because you are taking ownership of your actions, growing as an individual and putting yourself in a position where all decisions you make will create positive outcomes. These are all values that are demanded from us in order to be successful and reach our short and long term goals. These are also key elements to becoming a successful student and achieving your academic goals. While some may argue that personal responsibility does not directly affect college success because college already has an established structure to follow, it directly affects your overall success in life. Structure is everywhere we look, from a class syllabus to the way we drive, structure has been established. Personal responsibility...
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...In the world today, media has become as necessary as food and clothing. It has played a significant role in strengthening the society. Media is considered as a "mirror" of the modern society, in fact it is the media which shapes our lives. The media has claimed to be governed by righteousness and equity,but greed and self-aggrandizement has poisoned its virtues. Media has responsibilities, and these responsibilities need to be made clear and upheld by society. Unfortunately media today does not abide by moral standards, this sends mixed messages to our society. Most times these messages are daunting, callous and untrue. I will attempt to apply the classical theory of virtue ethics and the contemporary perspective of emotovism to this topic. Virtue ethics is the study of the virtuous character of a person.(Mosser 2010) Emotovism is basing ones moral decisions on ones feelings and emotions. (Mosser 2010) The constitution gives us the freedom of speech, however we must know that exercising these freedoms includes duties and responsibilities. The media has become an integral part of everyday life and has become a leading player and influence of our society. The basic role of the media is to basically and formally update a person on everything that is happening around them by informing them through the various communication channels. The media therefore has moral responsibilities, social responsibilities, and ethical responsibilities, with all working to form a responsible...
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...Analysis of Unilever Bangladesh: Introducing Unilever: 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product. From feeding your family to keeping your home clean and fresh, our brands are part of everyday life. Life partner: With 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways. Its brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favorites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave. From comforting soups to warm a winter’s day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life. We’re constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products. Continuous development: Consumer research plays a vital role in our brands’ development. We’re constantly developing new products and developing tried and tested brands to meet changing tastes, lifestyles and expectations. And our strong roots in local markets also mean we can respond to consumers at a local level. By helping improve people’s diets and daily lives, we can help them keep healthier for longer, look good and give their children the best start in...
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...Personal Responsibility There came a moment when I had to look at my life and claim it as my own. I put myself here. I created this world that now seems upturned. I had to finally claim that personal responsibility' for my life. Taking this step required a skill that needs to be learned by many individuals. The acceptance of inner acknowledgment that we are solely responsible for our choices in life, even when life deals us a flop, will give us an upper hand. Taking control of that bum deal frees us to seek out and accept help for ourselves. In taking on this task we must ask ourselves this simple question, how rational are we in dealing with the part we played in being who we are today? And if not, who is the responsible party? Why are we so programmed to blame? Alexander Graham Bell (1827) said, A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with- a man is what he makes of himself. In entering adulthood we chose how our self-esteem develops, but instead we seem to always have that, if it was not for her or if I could only go back and do things different. We must learn to work out our anger, hostility and depression over those haunting ghosts and focus on our now. Who we are and where we are going with this life. In starting this process it is wise to make a list of those parts of our lives that are inconsistent with the lifestyle that we have for seen for ourselves. Taking small steps towards removing these inconsistencies will lead us to that...
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...for Teen Jobs 2 The Struggle for Teen Jobs If jobs are scare today, where can teens learn about managing money, job experience and what type of career they might be successful in and where they want to go in life. The percentage rate in Ohio is at 67%, California is 32.7%, and the lowest is in Nebraska at 9.7%. The adult unemployment is at a high of 7.3% and growing faster everyday with the economy. Teen unemployment can also hurt the family income, for the parents are unemployed and they cannot even find jobs. The teen unemployment figure is simple alarming, while the rest of the country is in an economic recession. The percentage of teen job loss in the past two years, is greater than all U>S> workers the first five years of the great depression of the 1930’s.The employment rate amomg teens is dismal with the rates of teen unemployment varing from stae to stae.. Your teen is competing with adults looking for jobs because their one family income cannot sustain the increase in food, gasoline, education and all the expenses thy have to cover to provide for their families. Most of us come to that retirement age and we think that we can retire but we find out that our retirement money will not sustain through the rest our lives , so the older generation have to work longer which is also taking the jobs away from our...
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...time, doing the right thing at the right time. Accountability is a valuable piece of life. We as humans are accountable for every action we take and every decision we make. To be an effective leader you must understand the power of accepting responsibility for the results you create. When something goes wrong or does not turn out the way you wanted it to, a leader possess the skills to be held accountable for what they may have done to cause this problem. Once you can accept responsibility for what went wrong you can spend more time on finishing a goal versus more time placing the blame on others. Personal accountability is the key to success in both our personal and professional lives. BODY One of the issues facing police throughout time is the issue of police accountability. When the police are doing a “good job” in the public’s eye, no one has complaints or questions how things are done but the minute a situation arises that is out of the ordinary or one that is manipulated by the media there is public outcry and the allegations start challenging the integrity of the police department involved. Accountability is a concept in ethics with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as answerability, responsibility, blameworthiness, liability and other terms associated with the expectation of account-giving. As an aspect of governance, it has been central to discussions related to...
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...Corporate Responsibilities and Marketing Strategies Tyloria Evans Contemporary Business; 508 Dr. Horner-Smith Strayer University April 25, 2015 Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies In todays society many corporations need the trust of the general public for their survival. Apple, Inc. which has been named #1 on the fortune top ten most admiral companies list has worked hard to gain that trust by producing quality products that appeal to diverse groups. According to Boone/Kurtz (2013), “an organization that wants to prosper over the long term is well advised to consider business ethics” (p.32). Business ethics can be defined as standards of conduct and moral values regarding right and wrong actions in the work environment (p. 32). Not only should a corporation consider business ethics, but it should also take social issues into account as well. Business ethics and social responsibility can work in conjunction to allow a corporation to thrive. These social responsibilities can include how a discussion will affect the work environment, employees, and its customers. Overview of Apple Apple, Inc. is a fortune 500 companies established in 1977 in California. Since 1977 Apple has designed, manufactured and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players. Apple also sells a variety of related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third party digital contents and applications. Apple was...
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...Celebrities have a moral responsibility to be good role models for the society, would you agree? First of all by using the dictionary the main definitions can be broken down; the definition for a celebrity is ‘a famous or well known person’. The definition of moral responsibility is ‘the idea that a person has moral obligations in certain situations.’ The definition of a good role model is ‘a person whose behaviour, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people.’ Our opinion as a group is that every human being has a moral responsibility towards society although celebrities tend to have the upper hand when it comes down to being ‘good’ role models. Our three arguments for this topic would be: First, ‘yes celebrities do have a moral responsibility towards society’. Second, ‘every human being has some kind of moral responsibilities towards society’. Third, ‘Celebrities influence the youth of today’. Our counter argument will be: ‘Celebrities cannot be considered as ‘good’ role models because some of their actions can be inappropriate and be a bad influence on others’. Our refutation will be: ‘Miley Cirus is on illegal drugs and Lindsay Lohan was jailed due to the misconduct of the law.’ Our first argument is ‘Celebrities do have a moral responsibility towards society’. Celebrities nowadays are everywhere, from television to your doorstep. Their approach is becoming stronger towards the general population/audience by the simultaneous diversification...
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...6, 2011 The people in the world of business today face a number of issues. These issues could be hiring the appropriate people to work for a company, to updating their websites to face today’s technological boom or they could just be being able to establish and adapt to their place of business principles. These could be based on harassment, following company policies, having the proper training in order, or performing to their hired capabilities. What I am talking about is living up to their expectations or in other words their ethics. In this paper I will focus on ethics within running a business. I will define, explain differences, and give details about ethical and moral ethical issues in business. This paper will also include the difference between personal ethics and business ethics. To conclude I will give real life examples of common ethical problems in businesses today. What is business ethics? Going into the business world, people have the familiarity of his or her morals and ethics in mind which is taught growing up as a child. What is the definition of business ethics? To be ethical is to be honest (Trevino & Nelson, 2007). Upholding corporate values and morals is a part of business ethics. Many organizations have implemented a code of conduct and business ethics programs to ensure social responsibility to the stakeholders as well as the organization. Implementing these types of programs will not only ensure the responsibility of employees, not only to the...
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...Personal Responsibility Gen 200 September 18th, 2013 Evelyn Aiken Abstract It is easy to point the finger and become the victim when things go wrong in your life. When you can take personal responsibility for your actions, not only are you showing signs of growth and maturity, you are also showing that you are reliable and trust worthy in the work place. The world we live in today, it is easy to become the victim. We have radio lawyers who will be happy to help you sue even if the accident is your fault, there are therapists who will dig into your past and blame your upbringing for poor decisions that you have made, and we can even blame McDonald’s for being fat! Part of the problem is that people feel that there always has to be a winner and a loser. Just because you accept responsibility for your decisions or mistakes does not mean you have lost. It means that you are mature enough to understand what you have done and you can use that as a learning tool to move forward and hopefully not make the same mistake in the future. As children we are programmed to “tattle” and point the finger at our peers, but when we don’t grow out of that it can have damaging effects on us as adults. “It is time to take personal responsibility for our choices and actions and let maturity shine.” (Sue, 2007). Not taking personal responsibility also causes laziness, if we can blame others for our short comings then why should we even try to better ourselves? If I grew up in public housing...
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...PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY I recently took a look at my life and claimed it as my own. I put myself here, in my present situation. I claim all that life has given me thus far. I created this world that is full of progress. I proudly claim personal responsibility for my life. Taking this step required a skill that needs to be learned by many individuals. The acceptance of inner acknowledgment that we are solely responsible for all our own choices in life - even when life deals us a challenging hand – our acceptance will give us an upper hand. Taking control of that challenge frees us to seek out and accept help for ourselves. In taking on this task we should ask ourselves a simple question, how responsible are we in dealing with the part we played in being who we are today? And if we don't feel like we, ourselves, are responsible for our present situation, then who is the responsible party? Why are we so programmed to blame someone other than ourselves? One of my favorite quotes is by Alexander Graham Bell (1827), and he said, “A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with. A man is what he makes of himself.” In entering adulthood, we consciously (or unconsciously) choose how our self-esteem develops, but most of us seem to always have the thought that, “if it was not for her,” or “if I could only go back and do things different.” We must learn to work out our disappointments, anger, hostility and depression over those regrets and focus on our NOW. Who we are...
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...Personal Responsibility Being a responsible individual is necessary in order to succeed in life. Life is full of important choices and being responsible is one of the most important of them. Many things can alter our choices: friends, money, or life’s stresses can persuade you to make poor decisions. The dictionary defines personal responsibility as “taking responsibility for your actions, accepting the consequences that come from those actions and understanding that what you do impacts those around you”. In this essay I will explain my view points and experiences on the importance of having personal responsibility for one’s self. In life we have both positive and negative ways of going about doing any given task. We also have the choice as individuals as to when we decide to do or not do that task. As we grow and learn on a day to day basis, we are to be responsible for our actions. As a result, we will get positive or negative feedback from those around us. As we move forward in life we will most likely, but not in all cases, enjoy the positive feedback rather than the negative, and we will strive to do whatever it takes to continue getting it. We are personally responsible for what path we take in life and where it takes us. We can make it a hard, bumpy road full of thorn bushes that we have to walk though, feeling the pain that we have created, or we can be in an air-conditioned BMW, cruising on a smooth highway. We are the ones who are responsible for the outcome...
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...ABSTRACT Ethics brings out a lot of concerns in our world today. This document will set out the main issues about ethics in Information Management and Business world. There are many Ethical and legal issues that I will analyze in this document. 1. INTRODUCTION In this century many countries around the world are affected by “Information revolution and Ethics”. This has also altered many aspects in life, such as: commerce, employment, medicine, security, transportation, entertainment, and many more. Consequently, Information and Ethics has affected people in both, bad and good ways. These are: community life, family life, human relationships, educations, careers, freedom, and democracy. Information ethics has been defined as “the branch of Ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct I society. It provides a critical framework for considering moral issues concerning informational privacy, moral agency, new environmental issues, problems arising from the life-cycle of information. Information Ethics is related to the fields of computer Ethics and the philosophy of information. 2. BODY OF REPORT 2.1 Literature Review There are a number of ethical issues that can arise in information management, such as: * Professional Computer Ethics: The responsibility of the analyst towards the organization. Professional ethics...
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