Personal Responsibility Brian Patois GEN/200 April 2, 2014 Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility is paramount in succeeding in the academic arena, because the student must be able to hold themselves accountable. The world is filled with many opportunities to learn. Students have responsibilities that can pile up very quickly while learning. This includes being personally responsible. There comes a point in which one realizes that they are the only one that is going to hold
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How can we live in a world where anyone can commit any crime and walk away without any consequences? Communities would worry for their own safety and there will be no one to help them because there is no law and criminals will not be held accountable. Without personal responsibility the world will collapse and we will not be able to advance instead we going to go back to stone ages. The person needs to know what he or she can do in life and the tool that can make it happen is personal responsibility
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Ethical Situations In Business Task 1 Amanda Carlier Western Governors University Company Q is a small local grocery store operating in a major metropolitan area, currently behaving in a negative way in terms of being socially responsible. Recently Company Q has made some changes and closed two of their stores operating in high-crime rate areas due to losing money. Instead of trying to mediate the problem, they have a negative impact on the community by taking away jobs from members of the
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A. Company Q recently closed two stores that were located in higher-crime-rate areas of the city due to consistently losing money. Company Q has experienced loss of business because of the community that it served in and because of that, its attitude toward social responsibility is more on the cautious side. Some may say because Company Q closed two stores down, that it is not being socially responsible because of the jobs that were loss, however, Company Q also has an economic responsibility
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Personal Responsibility: The Key for Success Lydia Martinez GEN/200 November 5th, 2012 Patrick Jones Personal Responsibility Rough Draft Success, is what you are craving for? Maybe you are in the right track, maybe you are not. It all depends on what attitude you are taking or what road you decide to choose, what are your main values, and what do you really want to become in this journey called life. As a child, our parents try to impart
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1) How would you characterize Timberland’s exercise of its corporate power in society? Is Timberland engaging multiple stakeholders in its business operations? If so, how? I would say that Timberland has done a really great job utilizing its corporate powers in our society. Among the great things they have done are their boots donations to needy organizations, their front office executives go out and do community service, and are working on getting their facilities to operate under solar energy
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Annotated Bibliography Dione Davis GEN-200 July 10, 2014 Ken young Annotated Bibliography WRIGHT, S. (2012). Welfare-to-work, agency and personal responsibility. Journal of Social Policy, 41, 309-328. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279411001000 The reason I choose this article is because it seemed very reliable. I am sure that this is a credible source because I retrieved it from the University of Phoenix library, peer reviewed articles. It has some interesting information relating
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Ethical and social responsibility is an extremely important principle in an organization. Ethical and social responsibility is the standard that determines the accepatable conduct in an organization. Apple in my opinion has done an excellent job with their social an ethical responsibilities over all. As a corporatin they have investigated and reported child labor violation, toxic conditions, and other violations in their code of ethics. Apple definitely has eliminated dangerous working condition
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The meaning of ethics Name Affiliation Date Companies are charged with quite a number of social responsibilities to ensure that they give back to society and maintain a symbiotic relationship with the society. Some of the company's obligation to the society is to make sure that they work towards reducing the company's direct impact on the environment. This involves responsibly managing all the waste and the consumption of the various natural resources by the company. In addition to that
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Personal responsibility includes being responsible for your own actions and well-being. In relation to social roles each person has their own way of doing things while living their own life. The concept is similar for businesses and organizations that work to provide opportunities for others. They have a responsibility in providing products, goods, and services that are fair while serving a purpose. In either scenario, consequences are suffered when failing to do what is right. In many cases, when
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