...Ethical issue, as stated by Ferrell et al (2008) is “simply a situation, a problem, or even an opportunity that requires thought, discussion, or investigation to make a decision” (p. 60) whether it is right or wrong, ethical or unethical. Ethical issues results from the conflicts among individuals’ personal moral philosophies and values, the values and culture of their organizations and their society. Especially in the business environment, the ethical conflicts appear more normal when the benefit of one organization is the loss or suffering of the others. Ethical issues include many problems, situations or opportunities, however, within this context, I would like to discuss on the following three issues. First ethical issue relates to the environmental protection that becomes the most concerned today, especially in countries with high speed of industrialization and urbanization like Vietnam. Pollution is caused from dust, raw sewage, toxic chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides, industrial waste… from factories and transportation vehicles that are damaging the living environment. In a latest report by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), Vietnam stands 6th among the cities having highest level of pollution when dust is as 2 to 3 times higher than normal level. Some rivers in Vietnam are now being called as “black rivers” instead of their own names as the water is being so polluted with bad smell that no fish can exist after years they are being filtered by waste...
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...Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................3 Problem Statement .........................................................................................................................5 Research Objectives .......................................................................................................................6 Research Questions ........................................................................................................................6 Research Contribution ..................................................................................................................6 Literature Review ..........................................................................................................................7 Theoretical Framework .................................................................................................................8 Hypotheses Development ...............................................................................................................8 1.Improve the understanding of output importance of labor .....................................................8 2.Strengthen labor service personnel abroad for training, improve their overall quality and international competitiveness ...........................................................................................................9 3.Establishment...
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...Charles Kettering, the famed US electrical engineer and inventor said “A problem well-stated is half-solved.” One of the key capabilities in Consulting is to develop a good understanding of the problem situation from a number of different perspectives. This stage in the consulting process is known as ‘problem structuring’. The capabilities in Consulting have no limits with extraordinary growth in which is capable to handle and bring solutions for all business problems. Consulting is currently not well defined; however, it may refer to as giving advice to companies provided by trained professionals who help managers solve operational and strategic problems through the use of their knowledge and systematic analysis of facts and experience. Many specialised practitioners from all industry sectors often refer to themselves as ‘consultants’, in which roles they share knowledge and proffer advice to clients. The teaching of consulting begins its teaching by introducing the art and science of consulting. The reason being is that when coming up with any problems within a business, everything can be approached scientifically and everything can become art (Vidal R. 2006). The message given here believes to indicate that in complex situations to problem solving, it is advisable to use both the scientific and artistic attitudes for a more satisfying result to achieve with the risk of failure been minimized, all the participants been empowered and everybody to have given the chance...
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...Military Information Operations Capability for the Australian Defence Force 2 4/4/2016 “Classical” Systems Engineering 5 One way of thinking suggests… engineering begins when a need is established. the engineer’s task then provides a solution ... A “how to” oriented activity the need is expressed in terms of a system with defined objectives If there is a current situation S0 and a future, desired situation S1, then select the best of the available ways of getting from S0 to S1 so that the process becomes one of evaluating alternative solutions using models and criteria However… 6 More often than not, for managers, the problem is ill-defined – or the need is not readily established “What is the issue?” is the relevant question before we get to “how” to resolve it Need a system of enquiry … which works at both the “what” and “how” level SSM seen to be such a system of enquiry 3 4/4/2016 Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) 7 This is Checkland He came up with SSM Why? Hard/Soft systems Dissatisfaction with hard approaches in soft situations SSM 8 Developed for : ill-structured or messy...
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...Critical thinking is when you stop to analyze any problem or situations and come up with ideas on how you can solve them critically; it is also the ability to use reasoning and logic to unfamiliar ideas and situations. Critical thinking is a form of behavior we can enforce in every moment we need to analyze a certain perspective, situation, problems, and issues. The three most significant things that I have learned about critical thinking during this course are how to identify if it is a problem or an issue, the steps to critically analyze a situation, and finally I learned how to listen, read, and view critically. Learning to identify if a situation is a problem or an issue is imperative. The reason is because they have different approaches to each one. If a situation is a problem, people can all agree that is a problem but may have different ways of mindset when it comes to finding the solution. There may be ideas for solutions that not everybody agrees with, but everybody will agree there is a problem. If the situation is an issue, people will not all agree there may be an issue. Everyone will have their own opinion on the situation to where some may think there is an issue, others may think there is no issue and also others may not agree on how to solve the issue. When you are able to identify if it is an issue or a problem, you can start thinking critically on how to come up with ideas and solutions to solve this problem and any issues that may rise. There are several...
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...Problem Solving-Based Scenarios: An Approach to Identify Opportunities to Create Value for the Business Introduction Today’s realities of leadership include increasing competition and intensity, reducing cycle times and costs, and improving productivity while at the same time growing the business and meeting increasing customer and Wall Street expectations. These pressures require leaders to redefine and redesign how to think, how to lead, and how to act. These shifts in the very nature of leadership and of work demand that the leader spend more time figuring out what to do next and how best to do it to add value to the corporation and the stakeholders. Problem solving is a core capability required to realize these opportunities. Leadership can be seen as a process of identifying opportunities and solving problems. Some problems are important; some are not important. Some problems are easy to define; others are complex. Some problems are easy to solve; others are difficult. Some are solved alone; many are solved with others, often under tremendous political and organizational pressures. Sometimes there is a problem; sometimes there is not a problem. All problem solving and solution development methods follow a process that may be adapted by the user and to the particular scenario or situation. As human beings, we tend to look to preserve the status quo and see the world as it has been. We look for patterns or approaches that have been successful in the past. These...
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...organizations, people, and situations and (2) fictional ones that, although usually based loosely on actual people and events, do not use real organization's or people's names. The advantages of factual case studies are that they can provide a wealth of detail, give credibility to situations and problems, and, most important, provide real outcomes. Actual results give those who analyze a case real-world solutions: How did the organization or manager solve the problems? Did the solutions work? Although factual cases furnish concrete, not theoretical, solutions, they also have some drawbacks. Often students or case discussants get hung up debating the details of the case as they may remember them. Some discussants claim inside information or refer to later outcomes that bring the organization's solutions into question. When discussing factual cases, analysts tend to focus on the accuracy of the details rather than on the appropriateness of the solutions. Factual cases tend to become outdated as organizations, strategies, problems, and people change over time. Also, if a factual case portrays real organizations or people in a negative way, questions of taste, fairness, and even libel can arise. Finally, in a factual case writers must obviously stick to the facts, which means that they are limited to dealing with only those management topics that are implicit in the case. The most effective use of factual cases are for describing current organizational problems, then analyzing...
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...Problem Solving-Based Scenarios: An Approach to Identify Opportunities to Create Value for the Business Introduction Today’s realities of leadership include increasing competition and intensity, reducing cycle times and costs, and improving productivity while at the same time growing the business and meeting increasing customer and Wall Street expectations. These pressures require leaders to redefine and redesign how to think, how to lead, and how to act. These shifts in the very nature of leadership and of work demand that the leader spend more time figuring out what to do next and how best to do it to add value to the corporation and the stakeholders. Problem solving is a core capability required to realize these opportunities. Leadership can be seen as a process of identifying opportunities and solving problems. Some problems are important; some are not important. Some problems are easy to define; others are complex. Some problems are easy to solve; others are difficult. Some are solved alone; many are solved with others, often under tremendous political and organizational pressures. Sometimes there is a problem; sometimes there is not a problem. All problem solving and solution development methods follow a process that may be adapted by the user and to the particular scenario or situation. As human beings, we tend to look to preserve the status quo and see the world as it has been. We look for patterns or approaches that have been successful in the past. These...
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...leadership and strong . To look only in physical ability, personality, wealth and prestige , but for the present at birth . Changes in the environment over time. A good leader must also have a strong and far-reaching vision of communication in organizations , etc. in order to lead the organization to success , according to the target set . Meanwhile, to make membership in the organization was satisfied with his work . Awareness is key in the decision making process . A manager because you Must fully understand your decision to make , with all the facts and information related to . In a situation where you have to fix it if you have a bad perception of the situation and did not consider. all the facts Involved as external factors that you or anyone else can control you may not make a mistake eventually cause negative consequences for the organization and myself to make the recognition of situations wherever you are . to analyze all data Related to participate in Reasonable time without...
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...because I have grown up in a generation where this situation is very common and many teenage girls do not know how to react to this. Sometimes it can be hard to use wise judgment but it’s not impossible. The first way would be to take a step back and recognize the situation before it gets out of hand. For instance the 17 year old girl has to recognize that the boy is maybe becoming too pushy about the situation by saying, “they will only have protected sex.” The problem here is that he is trying to persuade her and change her thoughts on the situation by saying it will be safe. By realizing this problem she will able to sit down and actually think about the situation instead of falling to pressure and having sex. She will also be able to realize that what he’s doing is wrong and maybe even be able to sit down and talk to him about everything. Another wise judgment would be to define each problem and decide which ones are solving. The problems in this situation are number one he is encouraging her to have sex. She apparently is having a problem with that or he wouldn’t have to encourage her to do anything. This problem would be easy to solve by telling him that she is maybe not ready to have sex with him just yet. If he is a mature young man then he will be able to also look at the situation and know that pressuring her into having sex is the wrong thing to do and maybe they should wait. The second problem in the situation is how he is trying to persuade her by saying...
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...because I have grown up in a generation where this situation is very common and many teenage girls do not know how to react to this. Sometimes it can be hard to use wise judgment but it’s not impossible. The first way would be to take a step back and recognize the situation before it gets out of hand. For instance the 17 year old girl has to recognize that the boy is maybe becoming too pushy about the situation by saying, “they will only have protected sex.” The problem here is that he is trying to persuade her and change her thoughts on the situation by saying it will be safe. By realizing this problem she will able to sit down and actually think about the situation instead of falling to pressure and having sex. She will also be able to realize that what he’s doing is wrong and maybe even be able to sit down and talk to him about everything. Another wise judgment would be to define each problem and decide which ones are solving. The problems in this situation are number one he is encouraging her to have sex. She apparently is having a problem with that or he wouldn’t have to encourage her to do anything. This problem would be easy to solve by telling him that she is maybe not ready to have sex with him just yet. If he is a mature young man then he will be able to also look at the situation and know that pressuring her into having sex is the wrong thing to do and maybe they should wait. The second problem in the situation is how he is trying to persuade her by saying...
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...suffering different, problems in their lives? The various problems that customers face in the human services can identify as follows. Problems need development, and the needs created by some social change, and can influence environmental needs. As also several different social skills used when working with the client. Different strategies to help customers and provide better support and customer support so that problems can be solved best used. When problems occur, we realize that something is wrong and realize that this causes inconvenience to the customer. (Woodside, 2011) Human service professionals should identify where the problems come because sometimes tend to bea unemployment, inadequate housing, or disease of any kind. As has already identified the problem is to do everything possible to find the solution, helping the client to take better care of him. Development theory suggests that human development is a process of continuity and that there are certain stages in the life of the individual to be experienced. (Trotter & Stwartwood 2007) Over lifetime customers have been able to develop difficult situations such as problems, community, culture, work, weather, and even socio-political. Every family experience is different depending on the client and are stages in life that can cause a negative effect in their lives. Could not cope with their lives, this process allow the professional development of human services reaches the root of the problem? They are helping to...
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...Abstract. Introduction Map Stage 1. Problem situation unstructured. Stage 2. Problem Situation expressed. Rich Pictures Illustration of Stage 1 and Stage 2 as a whole in SSM Pitfalls that must be avoided. Stage 3: Naming of Relevant Systems Root Definitions CATWOE Stage 4: Conceptual Models Systems Thinking Formal Systems Model Monitoring a System Stage 5: Comparing Conceptual Models with Reality Using Conceptual Models as a Base for Ordered Questioning Comparing History with Model Prediction General Overall Comparison Model Overlay Stages 6 and 7. Implementing Feasible and Desirable Changes Case Study - Rethinking a Service Function in the Shell Group Stages 1 and 2 Stage 3: Naming of Relevant Systems Stage 4: Conceptual Models Stage 5: Comparing Conceptual Models with Reality Stages 6 and 7. Implementing Feasible and Desirable Changes Observations and Conclusions Exercise References Figures. Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6. Soft Systems Methodology map. Transformation process for producing Rich Picture. The routing of Systems Thinking. Shell's MF Rich Picture. Shell's MF world view of training. Shell's MF training conceptual model. Tables. Table 1. One to one transformations involving different world views. Table 2. Shell's Comparison with reality. Abstract This document deals with Soft Systems Methodology as developed by Professor Peter Checkland. This methodology is a way of dealing with problem situations in which there is a high social...
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...that day and then we started discussing possibly moving some team members from certain projects to projects that took more precedence, due to us having employees on vacation over the next two months. The boss for team immediacy recommended that two of my team members from be moved directly to his team, which would put me short of members for the month. I disagreed and said that one member from his team and one from mine was a more logical choice. This upset the boss and led very shortly to an argument. We eventually both had to be removed from the meeting and received a verbal warning. Many times when we face conflict, there is a surface-level problem and an underlying problem. The surface-level problem acts only as a symptom of the real problem. Consider both. 1d. What was the surface problem? I think the surface of this particular problem was conflicts that had happened prior to the meeting. Boss and I have had other...
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...Analysis Michael Hitt, Duane Ireland and Robert Hoskisson Using the Case Method The case method brings reality into the classroom. When developed and presented effectively, with rich and interesting detail, cases keep conceptual discussions grounded in reality. The case method can help you develop your analytical and judgment skills. Case analysis also helps you learn how to ask the right questions. Students aspiring to be managers and business owners can improve their ability to identify underlying problems, rather than focusing on superficial symptoms, through development of the skills required to ask probing, yet appropriate, questions. The particular set of cases your instructor chooses to assign the class can expose you to a wide variety of organizations and managerial situations. This approach vicariously broadens your experience base and provides insights into many types of situations, tasks, and responsibilities. Finally, experience in analyzing cases definitely enhances your problem-solving skills. Furthermore, when your instructor requires oral and written presentations, your communication skills will be honed through use of the case method. Of course, these added skills depend on your preparation as well as your instructor's facilitation of learning. However, the primary responsibility for learning is yours. The quality of case discussion is generally acknowledged to require, at a minimum, a thorough mastery of case facts and some independent analysis of them. The case method...
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