...significance of Research Skills and Academic Integrity for successful study in Higher Education? Academic studies require a vast amount of research. This essay will cover the importance of research skills aspects in academic development, to avoid any misconduct and not be accused of cheating, such as plagiarism and collusion. Scholars studying in higher education must have intellectual honesty also known as academic integrity. This helps pupils on being more ready when operating as an independent thinker and help one develop skills such as referencing, citation and as you absorb information, paraphrase ideas and quote the words of other researcher in the academic environment. Business students require research skills because it provides them opportunity to develop and improve. Examples including their abilities to check significance of developing research skills; find proper date resources for use in business study and practice. Obtaining information from many sources at times is difficult; the data obtained has to be correct and collected from sources which are reliable and valid. When conducting research, information can be collected from different sources such as historic documents, artistic work or even the use of own personal gathered data by investigation or observation. Since data sourcing methods are different we can categories them by where it’s accessed from either by primary or secondary data. According to Booth et al (2008) defines “Primary data as research information...
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...Academic Integrity This is my first time to get in touch with this new phrase: Academic integrity. To be honest, Students in Czech Republic including me, seldom acquire knowledge concerning subjects like Academic Integrity; so I have to admit that I only have faint sense of Academic Integrity, which is never cheating in examinations. I think it is partly caused by European education system. When I was a kid, the only understanding of integrity is to be an honest child or do not lie to your parents and teachers. When I grow up, I clearly know that cheating is a really bad thing. Thus I think, to some extent, these two rules are more like moral integrity but academic integrity. More often than not, the average student seeks an immediate answer by going into Google and asking it a question. This passes for “research” today. The trouble with this method is that, once an obstacle is encountered, the average student declares, “I could not find any research on my subject.” Beyond the fact that the research skills are poor, the next issue is the fact that, once the student finds research, he or she does not know what to do with the information. That is, there appears to be no attempt at explaining the significance of the research, or asking substantial questions in response to it. I think integrity is important for writing in academics. Being able to submit a paper or essay with the confidence your work is completely honest is a great feeling. I feel being honest in your writing gives...
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...Intellectual Integrity One skill distinguishes the effective CEO: the ability to make disciplined and integrated choices. Published: May 28, 2013 / Summer 2013 / Issue 71 by A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin, w ith Jennifer Riel By the time people reach the most senior levels of a company, they are expected to have a degree of personal competence and a strong gut feel for making good executive decisions. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be considered for a top job. But how do they attain this acumen? At Procter & Gamble (P&G)— where we (A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin) served as chief executive and one of the senior advisors to the company, respectively—we developed a systematic approach to cultivating that skill among emerging and senior executives. We found that business literature contains a great deal of advice for chief executives about strategy and execution, but much less is written about how to become the kind of person who can bring the right judgment to bear on business decisions, especially when facing a disruptive environment. Thus, many CEOs develop their own form of on-the-job training, quietly honing their own heuristics for strategic thinking. That makes it difficult to tease out and develop the personal attributes that separate successful leaders from less-successful ones. In our view, leaders would do well to take a more systematic approach to developing their decisionmaking capabilities. The place to start is where we started at P&G: with intellectual integrity. In common...
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...Vision Values Promise Jubliant Our Values * We will carefully select, train and develop our people to be creative and empower them to take decisions, so that they respond to all stakeholders with agility, confidence and teamwork. * We stretch ourselves to be cost effective and efficient in all aspects of our operations and focus on flawless delivery to create and provide the best value to our stakeholders. * By sharing our knowledge and learning from each other and from the markets we serve, we will continue to surprise our stakeholders with innovative solutions. * With utmost care for the environment and safety, we will always strive to excel in the quality of our processes, our products and our services. Reliance ------------------------------------------------- Mission * To attain global best practices and become a leading power generating company. * To achieve excellence in project execution, quality, reliability, safety and operational efficiency. * To relentlessly pursue new opportunities, capitalizing on synergies in the power generation sector. * To consistently enhance our competitiveness and deliver profitable growth. * To practice highest standards of corporate governance and be a financially sound company. * To be a responsible corporate citizen nurturing human values and concern for society. * To improve the lives of local community in all our projects. * To be a partner in nation building...
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...Values and Ethical Decision Making May 26, 2011 Values and Ethical Decision Making From the day we are born we are taught to walk, talk, think for ourselves, shown the difference between right and wrong, and hopefully learned the proper way to treat people. These things that are ingrained in us from birth are a culmination of what society as a whole deems acceptable and unacceptable. But also reflect individual preferences brought on by personal experiences we ourselves or our ancestors had that mold or contort what we feel about certain subjects. It’s human nature to seek out those with the similar attributes and form bonds with those people, whether it’s on a personal or business level. Personal Values In order to truly understand where one sits in many of their personal values, they must take into account many factors including, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, region you live in, and so forth. The culture in which you are raised has a value system in place, possibly hundreds of years. The things looked upon as acceptable behavior can vary greatly from one place to another. Personal values stem from a broader source, first you have society’s values and beliefs in the culture you are raised, adding to that your parents have their own set of values and beliefs they carry with them. Personal values are the driving force influencing everyone’s actions and reactions (Raj Soin College of Business). And as we grown and progress in life we take these values into...
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...OTHER BOOKS BY D. A. BENTON Lions Don’t Need to Roar How to Think Like a CEO The $100,000 Club Secrets of a CEO Coach HOW TO ACT LIKE A 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There CEO M C G R AW- H I L L SAN FRANCISCO LISBON WA S H I N G T O N , D. C . MADRID AU C K L A N D D. A. BENTON N E W YO R K B O G OT Á MILAN C A R AC A S LONDON NEW DELHI MEXICO CITY SINGAPORE MONTREAL S A N J UA N SYDNEY T O K YO TO RO N TO McGraw-Hill abc Copyright © 2001 by Debra A. Benton. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-137459-0 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-135998-2. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales...
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...just got this rom website credits to the author What should Mr. M. Lacdao do with Sylvia Gregorio’s offer of resignation as analyst of Center for Energy Research and Development’s Solar section brought about by absence of organizational value system? Objectives: 1. To be able to establish camaraderie and rapport among employees of the center. 2. To be able to continue to attract the best and brightest employees. II. Areas of consideration 1. Value system Value system is a set of ethical values and measures used for the purpose of ethical or ideological integrity. Organizational value systems are standards of behaviors that govern individual employee behavior within an organization. A personal value system on the other hand is a set of principles or ideals that drive or guide a person’s behavior. Absence of organizational value system encourages employees to pursue behaviors in line with their personal value system, which may not be the values the organization wants to develop. CERD lacks organizational value system. Its absence encouraged some women employees to develop exclusive groupings. It abetted unfair practice of exclusively grabbing training opportunities abroad by some management and training section personnel, curtailing equal opportunity and personal ambitions and career growth of other employees like Sylvia Gregorio. Other indicators include frequent discussions of male engineers’ drinking sessions, girls and disco prompting Sylvia Gregorio to lament...
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...Statement Apple’s Vision statement clearly states their long-term goals for the future. They are committed to bringing the best computing and learning experiences to consumers and through their continuous research and launch of new products they are able to give their target markets what they want. Apple’s vision is to become the “best” at designing and manufacturing electronic devices in the world. They set their quality standards high using the word “best” and so far they have yet to fail. Their vision is a promise to the consumers. They are “committed” in producing high quality products and providing high quality service thus setting high industry standards for other competitors. -Value Apple Values are the qualities, customs, standards, and principles that the company believes will help it and its employees succeed. They are the basis for what we do and how we do it. Taken together, they identify Apple as a unique company. These are the values that govern our business conduct: Empathy for Customers/Users We offer superior products that fill real needs and provide lasting value. We deal fairly with competitors and meet customers and vendors more than halfway. We are genuinely interested in solving customer problems, and we will not compromise our ethics or integrity in the name of profit. Aggressiveness/Achievement We set aggressive goals and drive ourselves hard to achieve them. We recognize that this is a unique time, when our products will change the way people work...
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...people have varying ideas of what is right or wrong, one can easily see why it is difficult to come up with clear understandings of how to act in all situations. Usually, people think ethics and values come into play when making praiseworthy decisions. However, “all decisions-whether judged highly ethical, grossly unethical or anywhere in between are values-based.”(Urbany 2008, p 75) Looking closer at how ethics and values play a role in a professional environment one can define three sources of values: Professional integrity, academic integrity and personal values. Integrity involves a formal relationship one has with oneself. (Stanford 2008) For the purposes of this paper, professional integrity is the relationship that one has with the company he or she represents. Academic integrity refers to intellectual property and ownership there of. Personal values simply refer to the values and standards a person holds oneself too. Professional Integrity Whether it is thought about or not, values guide everyone’s every day behavior. When making any choice,...
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...many issues. Some of these issues can be categorized into medical ethics, legal ethics, business ethics, and personal ethics but the ways of relating to such issues are derived from basic ethical values (Ethical Values as Part of the Definition of Business Enterprise and Part of the Internal Structure of the Business Organization, 1998). The basic Ethical values that I feel are very important are Honesty, Integrity, Building Trust, Respect, and Being Responsible. I value these Ethical Values that I have earned and I admire people who have such values because not only do these values build ones image but at the same time through these values people have a positive perception of peers and organizations are willing to work together for mutual benefits. This paper comprises detailed descriptions and analysis of the identified Ethical values. I will culminate by discussing how implementing these values make a difference in our personal and professional life. Honesty It refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft (Honesty, 2010). There is not one organization in this world that doesn’t include this Ethical value to their code of ethics. Being Honest is being real and not deceiving others. Honesty is earned by saying the truth. Being honest is an important attribute of an individual through which one can attain trust and...
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...Running head: A Comparison A Comparison of Ethical Values Kevin R. Fields (0817105) Saint Leo University Class ID: 2449406 Class Name: 2008FallTerm1 Ethical behavior and definable core values is the cornerstone of any profession. The Profession of Arms, or to be more specific, the United States Air Force, has a set of core values that govern every aspect of being a professional airman. The medical community, to include psychology, has ethical standards and general principles of conduct that governing interaction with each other, sub-specialties within the field, and with the patients they serve. Institutions of higher learning have basic values intended to be impressed upon students through every aspect of their educational experience. The purpose of this paper is to compare the Core Values of Saint Leo University to those of the American Psychological Association. By doing so, I will demonstrate the similarities between the professional ethics of the practicing Psychologist and those of the student enrolled at Saint Leo University. The 2002 Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct of American Psychological Association (APA) establishes behaviors and standards for the profession of psychology. The five General Principles outlined in this document serve as a value system intended to inspire psychologists toward the highest ideals of the profession (APA Ethics Code, 2002). Listed below are the five General...
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...lists of values present in literature, and summarizes them in a more comprehensive list. Then it follows the definitions of these values according to some philosophical models, and the analysis of their implications in the business life in general. Thus, tries to explain the relation between them and the principles of TQM, passing through the two mediating variables passion and trust. Findings: A model of quality management based on personal values is proposed. Research limitations: The lack of empirical data that can validate the model, and the lack of specific hypothesis of investigation. Practical Implications (if possible): Considering the emphasis placed on personal values, the model can have some practical implications in the field of recruitment, promotion, and leadership. Originality/value: The model fills the gap between personal values and the principles of Total Quality Management, being the first attempt to present a comprehensive model of interactions. A novel framework that can provide a basis for further research into the profound nature of quality management has been proposed. Furthermore, some implications that should be useful for recruiters and managers are discussed. Short biography of the author Mr. Moccia is a Lt.Col. of the Italian Army. He has a second level degree in Economics, and a second level degree in International Relations and Diplomacy. He obtained a MBA (International Finance) from the St. John’s University – New York, and currently is...
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...organization can attribute to my professional career and knowledge, and how this knowledge can be an attribute to my career success. How it will also help me to develop strategies and skills that will in the long run allow me to be a great asset to any agency in which I choose to work for . Describe AAA The American Accounting Association promotes worldwide excellence in accounting education, research, and practice (AAA, 2010). The AAA, founded in 1916, was first known as the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting until 1936 when the association name was changed. The American Accounting Association is composed of voluntary persons and professionals that are interested or involved in accounting, accounting education, and research (AAA, 2010). American Accounting Association Mission The American Accounting Association mission is “to further the discipline and profession of accounting through education, research, and service” (AAA 2010). The Association acknowledges that its members share a number of common values, which include the importance of their personal integrity, their objectivity, sense of community, open communications, respect for each other, high ethical values and personal behaviors, and an obligation to serve important stakeholders, including the broader society within which we operate. This statement is an expression of the values the AAA share and designed to serve as a broad guide to the behavior they expect of each other. The members of the...
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...organophosphate pesticides; 1,4 - dioxane; SLS/SLES (sodium lauryl/laureth sulfates); optical brihteners; mineral oil; petrolatum; BPA (bisphenol-A); a-chlorotoluene ("Honest Free Guarantee |The Honest Company," n.d.) Saint Leo University refers to Excellence as one of their essential core values. "The success of our University depends upon a conscientious commitment to our mission, vision, and goals." ("Mission & Values | Saint Leo University," n.d.) I can easily say the same about the vision of The Honest Company. It is evident through their marketing techniques . One of their principles is "Outperform." This refers to the quality of their products. They promise to exceed expectations and guarantee delight. Saint Leo also promotes Integrity. "The commitment of Saint Leo...
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...their every day business approach. Values are the standard to which the importance is focused in professional practices by an organization or individual (Syque, 2002-2010).. The unfortunate disconnect is that upholding professional values may not always be the ethical practice. Ethical behaviors are when these practices are to consistently doing what is right, even if they are not solely focused on what is most profitable for the company and their growth. Professional values and ethics are central to any organization and it is the responsibility of the individual employed and affiliated with that organization to uphold them. Sources of professional values and ethics are plentiful. These sources may include professional integrity, academic integrity, and personal values. Each of these sources plays an important role in our development as an individual, student, and professional, and will uniquely shape our thoughts and actions as we grow. The components of these values have varying meanings, however, the overall thread remains, that we first do no harm. Values and ethics should be a combination that works in the best interest of mankind; however our personal goals and...
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