...A value is something that a person considers to be important. Financial values vary from person to person. Not everybody wants the same lifestyle. Some people dream of having expensive cars, spacious homes and many possessions. Others search for the simple life, uncluttered by material goods. Our values influence the way we earn, spend, save, invest and spend money. Personal values are influenced by family and friends, by television and movies, and by what attracts us in the marketplace. For example, you may want to go to college, yet you want to earn money to buy a new car. If you cannot afford both, you must make a choice. A goal is a preferred future condition. It is more than a hope.Goals help you to get more of what you want out of life. They represent the ideal state to which you aspire, guiding all your actions towards this aspired state. What do you need to set goals? You need to know who you are (identity), your values, goals that you want to achieve, an action plan to achieve these goals, what motivates you, flexibility and self-discipline. Knowing who you are will keep you focused as you set priorities and accomplish challenges in your personal and professional lives. When you engage in self-reflection, it is helpful to avoid defining yourself in terms of external trappings, others' expectations or stereotypes. Establishing your values will help you to set goals in priority. Without values, all goals will be important, making it difficult for you to...
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...Human rights education is all learning that develops the knowledge, skills, and values of human rights. The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) has defined Human Rights Education as "training, dissemination, and information efforts aimed at the building of a universal culture of human rights through the imparting of knowledge and skills and the moulding of attitudes which are directed to: (a) The strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; (b) The full development of the human personality and the sense of its dignity; (c) The promotion of understanding, respect, gender equality, and friendship among all nations, indigenous peoples and racial, national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups; (d) The enabling of all persons to participate effectively in a free society; (e) The furtherance of the activities of the United Nations for the Maintenance of Peace." (Adapted from the Plan of Action of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), paragraph 2) During this Decade, the UN is urging and supporting all member states to make knowledge about human rights available to everyone through both the formal school system and through popular and adult education. Human rights education teaches both about human rights and for human rights. Its goal is to help people understand human rights, value human rights, and take responsibility for respecting, defending, and promoting human rights. An important outcome...
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...Maximizing the Use of Human Resources Performance Appraisal System Benefits Optimal Results Company Employees Performance Appraisal System Preappraisal Activities Review Procedure, timelines and process Review Performance Appraisal Form Review individual job description and assigned duties Determine schedule for formal observation (if not previously completed) Determine data to be reviewed and other sources of input for feedback Performance Appraisal System Post Appraisal Activities Overall Satisfactory Rating Overall Unsatisfactory Rating Performance Appraisal System Feedback Pitfalls to Avoid Performance Appraisal System Feedback Managerial Steps Provide constructive feedback Demonstrate personal accountability Focus on specific behavioral outcomes Balance accolades / issues Encourage two-way communication Redirect focus to positive future outcomes Performance Appraisal System Company Benefits Productive, Loyal Employees Reduced Employee Turnover Lower recruitment and training costs Enhanced business reputation Identification of high-potential employees Evaluation of Teams Team Performance Evaluation of Teams Strategy Evaluation of Teams Performance Differences Team Individual Succession Planning Reasons for Adoption Mitigate risk due to employee turnover Availability of skilled replacements Prepare highly qualified...
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...freedom with every new day. Sai Sangeetham I Want Peace You Often Hear I want peace you often hear From people near and afar Ego and desire are barriers two So cross "I want" and peace is with you. Sai Baba's Human Values five Let Sai Baba your chariot drive With horses his Human Values Five The Lord will always be around To keep the vehicle safe and sound You'll be as gentle as a dove With the joys of Non-Violence and Love And a new world full of beauty Will spring from Truth, Peace and Duty. Human...
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...Ethics and Human Values Materials for This Course Available in the Bookstore J. S. Mill Utilitarianism (Hackett) Immanuel Kant Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Hackett) Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (Chicago) These are all relatively inexpensive paperbacks. So acquire them immediately. There will also be a few brief handouts. Course Description The subject of ethics is the pursuit of the good. For animals, the good is given in instinct; however, with the advent of reason we have the capacity of the human being to choose that which is not given by nature. This means that it is unclear that our immediate impulses guide us correctly; there must be a standard to be argued for, since the immediately given is not satisfactory. It is in ethical reality that the degree of difference of intelligence between man and the animals is perhaps equivalent to a difference in kind. Because of this, the human good, as opposed to the natural good, is inherently questionable. In this class, we will be looking at how it is that philosophers have concerned themselves with this question. We will look at 3 of major different ways in which the question the ultimate ethical principle has been understood; the utilitarian, the “deontological” and the “eudaimonistic”, by considering a few of the primary texts that deal with these. Requirements, Expectations, Grading You are expected to attend and attentively participate in every class period. The grade...
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..."PERSONAL VALUES AND ETHICS" "Personal Values and Ethics" BSHS/332 - PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL, AND LEGAL ISSUES IN HUMAN SERVICES May 07, 2011 Values are greatly held beliefs that conduct our behaviors and decisions. They live deeply within the subconscious and are strongly incorporated into our everyday lives. We make our decisions and choose certain behaviors, friends, place of employment, and what we entertain ourselves based on our values. We absorb a beginning value-set during our childhood years from our parents, teachers, coaches, and other influential people we see regularly. As the years pass on and we go through life experiences, we tend to get rid of some values and add others. However, many of the values that subconsciously operate as an origin for choices, decisions, and behaviors are the core values that were absorbed during our early years. As I look back on my childhood, I can see how my values were developed within myself, I can see how they are implemented in my everyday life and I can also see how they are utilized within my decisions that I make in my place of employment. As a child, there were always rules in the house. My younger brother and I had a specific bed time, we could only watch certain television shows and we could only drink our juice after our dinner was finished. My step-father and mother had us on a daily routine that was pretty repetitive during the regular school year. My step-father would...
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...Christianity views all life as precious, but human life as sacred. This conviction informs and determines the Christian's attitude toward nature and toward human beings. God is the author of life and therefore life is precious (see Ps. 36:9). When God created this planet, He sup plied it with light, soil, water, air, and seeds (Gen. 1:3-11). All seed is infused with potential for generation, growth, and reproduction; the Life-giver endowed organic matter with life. God is the sustainer and owner of life; therefore life is precious. God did not abandon His creation when He completed His creative work. Scripture teaches that He is an active sustainer of life (Ps. 104:29, 30). Through the laws of nature instituted at Creation and through humanity's stewardship over the earth, God sustains life indirectly. But the Bible underlines God's active and direct involvement, and the total dependence of living creatures on His activity. Life is set apart for a special purpose, and so it is precious. At the time of Creation God established a delicate and well-balanced biosystem on earth. According to Genesis 1:29, 30, green plants grow from inorganic soil and serve as food for animals; fruits and seeds are given to humans for food. Not one organic living thing exists without reason or purpose, nor is any living thing independent of everything else. Yet life's value does not lie simply in mutual usefulness or interconnectedness. Rather, harmony and unity in nature serve as witnesses...
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...In what ways have various forms of entertainment media shaped American culture and its values? Entertainment media in my opinion is looked at as television and then the radio for the most part. Phones laptops and tablets etc.. Are also included in this category. I believe it is shaping our American culture because we get all our “reality” from there. For example, we watched shows like the Brady bunch and The Cosby Show and knew that when we grew up, we wanted to have the big family and both the heads of the household were very successful so it seemed everything would be so simple in life. Slowly, television turned and it showed separated families and that idea marinated that maybe life was this way too. Television little do we know helps us to shape how we are. At least it did at some point in everyone’s life. When it comes to our phones, we gave that control of our moves in life. I know when I go to bed at night, I depend on my phone to wake me up by the alarm set. This is giving the phone the knowledge and power of controlling if I wake up in the morning to get to work on time or not. This is just one example of how entertainment is shaping our values and culture. It’s literally taking over. Are the social influences of entertainment media mostly positive or negative? Explain The media does promote positive energy but majority of the time they are looking for the negative headlines to bring to the table. The answer to the question is media by all means entertain negativity...
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...In a country like Jamaica human rights are conflicting with long term established values and norms. Stone (1992) states that “Values define for a society the things people strive for and attach great meaning and significance to. Norms set rules of behaviour designed to express a commitment to the society’s underlying values.” The United Nations in their article on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights define human rights as “rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status.” We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible. The International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states in its preamble, "in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying freedom from fear and want can only be achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy his or her economic, social and cultural rights, as well as his or her civil and political rights". Jamaica is widely perceived to be the most homophobic country in the Caribbean and, by some accounts, the world (Padgett 2006). Sexuality-based oppression in Jamaica is institutionalized throughout the legal system, health and social welfare institutions, popular culture, religion and through extreme forms of social stigma (White and Carr 2005). Poverty and public...
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...Ethics and human values :- Who should hold greater responsibilities in the decision making, the technical experts or the general business managers? Name :- Roshanbhai Patel STRATFORD UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION This Individual Guide is write to help you integrate human values and ethics into your day-to-day work. Become more aware of the nature and practical relevance of human values and ethics in your workplace. Generate creative ideas to strengthen your environment for human values and ethics at work. Increase your ability to draw from your human value strengths in all of your work and leadership activities. Learn how to establish “guiding principles” for applying human values in your workgroup. Human Values are those qualities of a human being which are desirable, respected, worthy, esteemed, dominant, and which are sanctioned by a given society. They are universal and are the essential foundation for good character. The computing field has addressed issues of human values and ethics by means of handful of approaches. To some extent, these approaches overlap with one another.For example sociotechnical analyses, which are central to social informatics, often from the front end of efforts in Participatory Design, and we are incorporated into the empirical investigations of Values-Sensitive Design. In the IT company decision making is a most important part. Who should be Take major responsibility? Either general manager or Technical Expert. General manager is managing...
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...Values Reflection Paper Thomas Guerrero CJA 474 November 24, 2014 David Pettinari Values Reflection Paper Regardless of whether people work in the government or private sector, military or civilian, they will commonly ask, “what are my core values?” Most people are taught personal values from the early years of childhood, and throughout adolescence. In addition to parents, many public figures instill some values (such as respect) in the minds of young adults stronger than other values. Respect is one of my core values, and something that most kids from inner-city Chicago learn about. This paper focuses on core values. In this paper, I will reflect on my core values, describe the development and change of values, and explain the nature and importance of human values in the workplace. Core Values With the numerous amounts of social influences today, it may be hard for adolescents to decide which vales they believe to be most important. However, adolescents and adults are constantly faced with the question, what do you want to be or do in life? According to De Janasz, Dowd, & Schneider (2001), “Identifying your values will help you answer the question “What do I want to achieve with my life?” Once you determine your values and why they are important to you, you can then work on a plan for achieving your goals (p. 51).” Growing up in the tough neighborhoods of Chicago, it is easy to learn the values of right and wrong. It’s learned from award ceremonies...
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...organization (Aguinis, 2009). At Hershey, the main diversity stated in the case study was the diversity of age between workers which consisted of millennial workers, those in their 20s, and the baby boomer generation. The performance management is an ongoing effort of Human Resources to identify measure and develop the performance of values that Hershey promotes. Currently the markers for review are based upon the values of the company which include, embracing diversity, sharing knowledge, leading with integrity, teamwork and personal responsibility. The performance management system allows employees to set goals within each value and review is based upon reaching those specified goals (Noe, Holleneck, Gerhart. & Wright, 2011). Analysis of How a Hershey’s Employee Would Interpret the Values that Hershey Embraces in Relation to Employees In an effort to improve this performance management system Human Resources may wish to further explore the research that indicates that teams with diverse memberships are likely to have a deeper pool of resources in which the company can benefit from (Bassett-Jones, 2005). Since the current review process consist of setting up personal goals based on the company's value system, employees could also create goals which directly address the learning and training relationship between employees. Goals that a new employee could implement would include an effort to collaborate with elder staff and improve upon policy procedures, lead team discussions...
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...the claim that both anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric ethics will recommend the same environmentally responsible behaviours and policies. I argue that even if we grant the truth of Nortonʼs convergence hypothesis, there are still good reasons to worry about anthropocentric ethics. Ethics legitimately raises questions about how to feel, not just about which actions to take or which policies to adopt. From the point of view of norms for feeling, anthropocentrism has very different practical implications from nonanthropocentrism; it undermines some of the common attitudes – love, respect, awe – that people think it appropriate to take toward the natural world. KEYWORDS Anthropocentrism, environment, ethics, Norton, value Environmental Values 16 (2007): 169–185 © 2007 The White Horse Press 170 KATIE MCSHANE For at least the last 30 years now, there has been a running debate among environmental ethicists about whether anthropocentrism can serve as an adequate foundation for environmental ethics. The most recent discussions of this issue have concerned Bryan Nortonʼs ʻconvergence hypothesisʼ – the view that if we have a suitably sophisticated anthropocentrism, then in practice, anthropocentrism and nonanthropocentrism will converge.1 That is to say, they will both recommend the same environmentally responsible behaviours and policies. If this is so, then one might think the dispute between them is merely academic – a matter for ʻintramural philosophical...
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...Frankenstein/Bladerunner In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) humanity’s manipulation of nature paradoxically erodes the human spirit and compromises integrity. Although contextually disparate, both texts explore a creator’s need to take responsibility for his creation, cautioning responders of the dangers of unrestrained scientific progress and conveying humanity’s severed relationship with nature. Where Shelley communicates with a certain ambiguity characteristic of the contradictory Age of Reason and sets her tale against a backdrop of a sublime natural world, Scott portrays a society fuelled by ecological destruction and 1980s corporate abuse. This reflects each composer’s anchoring of their visions in the socio-cultural realities of their time; a fundamental transgression of human values over time. Both texts explore the dangers of uninhibited scientific progress. In Frankenstein, Shelley fashions a gothic world where nature is tampered with and a ‘hurricane of enthusiasm’ drives the protagonist towards abandoning his conscience, prompting Shelley’s valuing of moderation. Underpinned by the Industrial Revolution and an era of scientific change, Victor embodies the obsessive passions and Romantic ego-identities of 19th century scientists. The epistolatory narrative framework adds a disquieting sense of truth to Victor’s retrospective dialogue, “how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,” reflecting his Promethean disobedience...
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...Future -Social and cultural changes in human values and norms of behavior in businesses I think that first of all what we call a future could be happening in the next coming years or decades, since new types of technology and crazy touch-screen or laser objects are being used every day in our daily lives, even worst by children about 5 or 6 years old. Technology is not the only thing that has changed and is changing every day, something that we should really worry about is our own human values. This is our own social and cultural values, everything we have had since the moment we are born and also our norms in daily business that have been established year and years ago based on errors and important historical events, and by important business man and multinationals that had gave us the opportunity to experience what we are experiencing today. To answer the million dollar question we need to break it down into two separate parts; social and cultural changes; and norms of behavior in the world of business. The question is how these two factors will change in the future and how businesses will be done by that time. First, we need to determine our social and cultural values and those can be referred or seen as our ethical actions, and are our base of integrity in society. The way we think, act, behave, from a greeting to an interview or negotiation, these values or personal beliefs are definitely changing and even becoming extinct. Our values is the most fundamental thing in today´s...
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