...five key values that were studied and learned about in class were civic engagement, freedom, equality, patriotism and democracy. I do not believe that one of these values is more American than the other though three of these mean more to me personally than others. Patriotism, freedom, and equality. Together they make the United States of America unique from any other country. Yes, some countries have freedom, but no other country in the world is like ours because we hold these values nearest and dearest to us; at least most of us do. These five values are the values that we strive for in perfecting to make us so great. Some are more rounded than others but they are all what makes the United States so unique. I decided to chose was patriotism as one of the values that describes me as an American because I feel like no matter what the situation is in America, every American should be patriotic. Not saying that a person has to be a die hard patriotic person and willing to take a bullet for his, or her country, but one should love their country, not the government for say. I feel like patriotism defines who I am as an American because of the support and respect I have for my country, even though I do feel like there are flaws all throughout this country and it’s history, I still stand up and by my country. I decided to do my part and show my love and devotion for this country by joining the military and enlisting this past February. The text from class that I decided...
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...Core Values Adults always tend to tell children that everyone’s unique; No two people are the same. Throughout my life, I’ve learned that the reason everyone is different is because every person has different morals and values. When I was first asked about my top three core values, I was speechless. I had never really just sat down and thought about what characteristics were most important to me. But after completing a class assignment titled, “My Core Values,” I was able to find out what my top three personal core values are. The three core values that relate to myself the most are responsibility, challenge, and justice. They University’s core values, on the other hand, seem to be mostly different. They are responsibility, excellence, servant leadership, integrity, and generosity. Even though my core values seem different than my schools, I believe they all have a very common underlying message. Responsibility, in my opinion, is one of the most important traits a person can have; therefore it’s definitely in my list of top three core values. Being responsible means doing things you have to do, even when you do not want to. This allows other people to trust you. People then often link responsibility with another core value: trustworthiness. Responsibility can be something as simple as watching your little sister, or as complex as being responsible for other people’s lives, such as a pilot of a plane. If you are not responsible, people will often not believe what you say, and...
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...the TypeFocus Database, the three letters describing my personality type are ESTJ. 2. Given that the three letters describing my personality are ESTJ, the general description for my individuality states; one who is logical and pays great attention to detail so that a particular goal or task is met or completed. Apart from being disciplined towards a goal and wanting those goals to become a reality, individuals possessing a personality described by the letters ESTJ are also great leaders, given that they work well with others and have the ability to communicate their ideas and plans when working together with others in a group. 3. According to the TypeFocus Database, the Summary of careers for my personality type is careers...
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...about making choices, and about providing reasons why we should make these choices. moving from a primary focus on teaching employees to master the knowledge, skills, and job behaviors and apply them to the day-to-day activities (Making Choices: Ethical Decisions at the Frontier of Global Science) * Ethics refers to principles that define behavior as right, good and proper. Such principles do not always dictate a single "moral" course of action, but provide a means of evaluating and deciding among competing options. * The terms "ethics" and "values" are not interchangeable. Ethics is concerned with how a moral person should behave, whereas values are the inner judgments that determine how a person actually behaves. Values concern ethics when they pertain to beliefs about what is right and wrong. Most values, however, have nothing to do with ethics. For instance, the desire for health and wealth are values, but not ethical values. (www.josephsoninstitute.org) Concepts organizing Principle of Ethics 1. Autonomy - is the principle that addresses the concept of independence. The essence of this principle is allowing an individual the freedom of choice and action. (Forester-Miller & Rubenstein, 1992) 2. Beneficence - reflects the counselor's responsibility to contribute to the welfare of the client. Simply stated it...
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...viewed in three different types; virtue theory, utilitarianism, and deontological ethics. All three theories have similar but yet different (awkward), however they each connect to and address the ideas of ethics and morality. Virtue theory, which is judging someone by what you (Avoid using pronouns like “you” and “your” in academic writing.) perceive as their character rather than their actions, demonstrates a lifestyle of living to be excellent in all areas of life for not just the benefit of yourself but for others. Citation? Utilitarianism would be slightly different because it is believed to be an action that is morally correct only if a large number of people have the opportunity to benefit from it. Citation? Regardless of the deed, it should be intended to promote the greatest amount of happiness for an abundant amount of people. Deontological ethics is what we (Avoid using pronouns like “we”, “us”, and “our” in academic writing.) would see as being right versus wrong in what we do instead relating it to the consequences of our actions. Citation? When identifying the similarities and differences of each theory one of the most common element[s] is to see that one speaks of the actions one take[s], where as (“whereas” is one word.) the other is based on the consequences. Good, but one sentence cannot stand alone as a separate paragraph in academic writing. **The requirements for this assignment state that the paper must include a section on “virtue, values, and moral...
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...Habit 2- Begin with the end in mind Habit 3- Put first things first Time quadrants The Public Victory Habit 5- Seek first to understand then to be understood Habit 6- Synergy Habit 7 - Sharpen the saw Habit 8 – Finding your voice Quotes that support the habits The ABC of using the habits Reading Recommendations Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People® ( Remember Covey’s habits are protected intellectual property) 1 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Habit 1: Be Proactive Take responsibility for your life. Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Define your mission and goals in life. Habit 3: Put First Things First Prioritise, and do the most important things first. Habit 4: Think Win-Win Have an everyone-can-win attitude. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Listen to people sincerely. Habit 6: Synergize Work together to achieve more. Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw Renew yourself regularly. Habit 8: Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. To deal with people in a way that will communicate to them their worth and potential so clearly they will come to see it in themselves. Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People® ( Remember Covey’s habits are protected intellectual property) 2 Defining a habit and explaining how the habits can help us. WHAT EXACTLY ARE HABITS? Habits are things we do repeatedly. But most of the time we are hardly aware that we have them. ...
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...officer at Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc., and was named ‘‘The Greatest Money Manager of the 1990s’’ by Money magazine. In this question and answer session, Fred H. Speece, Jr., CFA, interviews Bill Miller about his insights into portfolio management in general and value investing in particular. Continuing a tradition of lifelong learning a cfa institute publication Conversation with a Money Master BILL MILLER, CFA Bill Miller, CFA, is chairman and chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc., and was named ‘‘The Greatest Money Manager of the 1990s’’ by Money magazine. In this question and answer session, Fred H. Speece, Jr., CFA, interviews Bill Miller about his insights into portfolio management in general and value investing in particular. Speece: You have an impressive long-term track record as a portfolio manager. Given today’s very efficient and sophisticated market, do we still have room for stock picking? Miller: When we discuss market efficiency, we run into a semantic issue about what exactly is meant by the term ‘‘market efficiency.’’ At Legg Mason, we believe that the markets are pragmatically efficient, which means that they are extremely competitive and usually beat most active managers. For example, fewer than 35 percent of large-capitalization managers beat the market in the recent 12-month period ending 30 June 2006, just under 30 percent in the past 5 years, about 20 percent in the past 10 years, and about 22 percent in the past...
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...is what makes ethics a fascinating thing to study because it goes to the core of we chose to live the way that we do and what is the causes that resulted in the effect of why we make the choices we make every day. I am going to look over what causes have affected me to make the choices I do, what style of philosophical approach this puts me in, and compare myself to someone else on the basis of ethical thinking. Philosophical Approaches The three philosophical approaches focused on in chapter two of the Trevino and Nelson text virtue ethics, consequentialism, deontological. If I were to rank these three philosophical approaches my order would be deontological, virtue ethics, and consequentialism. I would place the approaches in this order because first deontological focuses on doing the right thing and following my own set moral principles which I feel is the best way to make decision and most follows the way I view ethics. Next is virtue ethics, I chose this approach second because though it does not focus specifically on the action it still is based on being a “good” person and striving to do the right things when making decision even though the choices may end up with negative consequences. I would place consequentialism last because I feel that focusing more on the consequences of an action then the action itself can through my set of morals lead a person to do immoral things. Since I have ranked a deontological focus as my top choice I would choose it as my one philosophical...
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...I would like to start with why values are so important, regardless of whose or what they may be. Values give us a perspective of what’s foremost in our lives, what it is we should be striving for and what we should be doing with our time to actualize them, time being the key word. There are so many things in life we can do later or just anytime we want, ex, hanging with friends, going shopping, playing on our phones! But what we most defiantly cannot do is get back lost time we spent doing these things, and not spending these precious times with our families or whatever it is that is most important to you. Family is the most influential value in my life; I equate it with a new song rising its way to the top of the charts. I like to think that family has always been a part of who I am, that without my parents I wouldn’t be half the man I am today. However, I’ve been married for 3 years to my beautiful, intelligent wife and have two crazy but equally beautiful girls, and I know without a doubt that family has risen to the top of my value chart and isn’t going anywhere. I also know that it’s the hardest value to be good at. In comparison to my other values it’s extremely new, and sometimes seems foreign to me. I know that it’s a work in progress and I will do my best to understand it. Quote “I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.” – Johnny...
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...Based on the Value Paradigm as seen in fig.1 “Understanding Human Values” you are tasked to make some listing on how the following value indicators below truly make a difference in the values of people. Language – the way they speak Music, dance art and images of feelings – it gives sense of identity to every individual, creating in person uniqueness and a way of identifying oneself within a certain group. Food and the way they eat – distinguish an individual from the rest through the way that he/she chooses foods to eat. Foods that he/she chooses and eat define him or her through physical aspect and his/he belief in manipulation of foods. Recreation – activity or activities that allow an individual to spend his free time in a more constructive manner. This gives an individual immediate and inherent satisfaction. Dress – signifies somewhat an status symbol for a person because if he dresses in a way that is different from the others he becomes known to them. Beliefs – convictions of people that leads him towards the achievement of his goals and thus makes him successful. Likes – sense of having an interest towards certain people or things which makes an individual keener on his works or projects. 2. Figure 2 provides an understanding of how values are communicated, and who the Values Communicators are. Discussion on “Why do you think our parents are considered number one communicators of values?” Parents are considered number one communicator of values because...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Your name (Please print)_______________________________________ ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Student ID #________________________ Section_________________ ------------------------------------------------- AssessmentNo. | Assessment | Completed | 1 | How satisfied are you with your present job? Answer questions on p. 57 | | 2 | What is my Big 5 personality profile 5? Answer questions on p.82 | | 3 | What is the status of my acquired needs? Answer questions on p.150 | | 4 | What rewards do I value most? Answer questions on p.201 | | 5 | What are my signature strengths? Answer questions on p.244 | | 6 | Group and Team role preferences scale. Answer questions on p. 259 | | 7 | What is your preferred conflict handling style? Answer questions on p.351 | | 8 | Corporate culture preference scale. Answer questions on p. 501 | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Please write out the UNCG Academic Integrity Policy statement and sign your name here: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...that of durable goods. With this he is simply stating the fact that happiness is dependent the things you do in life and not the objects. It is the time that you share with friends and family what makes life meaningful and that creates happiness. All the objects in the world that money can buy is meaningless when you don't have anyone to share it with. 2. Harvard economists Alberto Alesina and Paolo Giuliano say that strong family ties imply more reliance on the family as an economic unit that provides goods and services and less on outside institutions such as those found in the market place and government. Why does household production (doing things together or making things within the home) activity have such an impact on family ties? Can you give an example from your own family? Not completely sure if I am answering this question correctly but basically the way I see things, I must say I agree with both economists who say that strong family ties imply more reliance on the family as an economic unit and etc. Household production has a huge impact on family ties because I believe that it is very important when families work together and produce things that become of value to their household and their family. For example my family and I have worked together as a team to remodel our house, and to save money in doing that in many ways which in the end also helped increase the value of our...
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...how it works. Having inner experiences and impulses and still directing the energy and attention to the things that matter the most to you. You have to know what you really want and not let the universe impose on you. You need to take action to have the ability to say yes to yourself. Willpower is like having three (3) powers I (will), I (wont), and I (want). I use me (will) and I (want) power the most and resist most of the temptations. I have self-compassion; I take small steps for small actions and get a bigger change. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to do things that we really don’t want to do but need to do. B. Article – “Academic Delay of Gratification, Motivation, and Self-regulated Learning Strategies”* 2. Using your own words define willpower and explain what it means to you.* What Willpower means to me is when you hold yourself back from doing something you may regret in the future. Having willpower is the ability to recognize when you’re about to do something that is inconsistent with your culture, values, and literally put on the I won’t brakes on and say I will. An example of when I used willpower is when I decided that I wanted to make healthier eating habits and shed some weight. See I’m the kind of person who likes junk food. I had to have the willpower not to eat junk food and try eating healthier snacks. It did work I lost a few pounds. Although I am the kind of person that hid my feelings with food, by not eating those foods it made me have to talk...
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... BEST OF HBR 1999 Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. Managing Oneself by Peter F Drucker . • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Managing Oneself 12 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint R0501K BEST OF HBR 1999 Managing Oneself The Idea in Brief We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition, drive, and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession—regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren’t managing their knowledge workers’ careers. Rather, we must each be our own chief executive officer. Simply put, it’s up to you to carve out your place in the work world and know when to change course. And it’s up to you to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years. To do all of these things well, you’ll need to cultivate a deep understanding of yourself. What are your most valuable strengths and most dangerous weaknesses? Equally important, how do you learn and work with others? What are your most deeply held values? And in what type of work environment can you make the greatest contribution? The implication is clear: Only...
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...or against whether they align with our cultural or personal values and morals. Virtue, utilitarianism, and deontology are three such theories that have some similarities and differences in the belief and thought process. All three theories are similar in the idea of doing what is right, but they may be for different motives and reasons. The virtue theory claims that actions should aim to the good, but it is not clear if the good is for one person, all people, or even for general society. According to Boylan (2009) “It takes the viewpoint that in living your life you should try to cultivate excellence in all that you do and all that others do” (Chapter 11). When I read this, it causes me to believe that I am responsible for the good that others do as well. The concepts of Utilitarianism are putting the team first or in other words acting like a team player. This theory states that an action is morally right when it produces a greater good for the whole team. In this idea, the group or team comes before our own good and in that case, there will be personal sacrifices. It is similar to virtue and deontology in the idea of doing good and making the right choice, but it differs in who will be affected by this decision. Looking at deontology, this differs from the other two through the idea that actions are based purely on duty because it is the right thing to do. It is similar in the idea of doing the right thing, but the motives and results will be different. This theory...
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