...(That’s the one your parents are asking.) They’re important questions. You do need to choose a major. And when you leave college, you’ll have to get a job. But during your time at Pepperdine, you will also be challenged to ask questions that go deeper than just what your major or your occupation will be. Sometimes it is not easy to understand the nature of a "vocation". We know the word means "calling", but how does God call someone to ministry? We generally do not hear a distinctly audible call to go to work for the Lord, at least, not directly from the Lord. We do hear the anxieties of our fellow man. We hear them wondering where priests and religious will come from in the future because so few young people are following those vocations today. We hear them hoping and praying that someone from the parish will step forward to do the work of Christ. How do we know if God is calling us? How do we know what our vocation is? How can we listen to God? Many people are confused about their vocation. There are some people who have chosen a more difficult vocation. They chose to always follow God. They help us find our vocation in life. They have been helping people for many generations. They are our religious brothers and sisters. For many years’ people have ignored and listened to God. Some people chose to ignore God because they think that their path will be less difficult. We sometimes forget God and we fail to hear him. God is always trying to help us but how can you help someone...
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...Politics as a Vocation: Essay 1 “Politics as a Vocation” is a speech that Max Weber gave to the Free Students Union of Munich University in January of 1919, almost immediately after the end of WW I. He opens his speech by saying he will not take a position on the actual problems of the day, but rather “I shall raise certain questions concerning the significance of political action in the whole way of life” (1, 27). Weber’s main goal throughout his speech is to address the broader philosophical questions of how a person might make politics his livelihood in the sense of a vocation, along with dissecting the idea of what exactly politics is in relation to power, and what characteristics people who are considered to be politicians posses in order to be considered successful politicians. Weber begins by expressing his desire to relay the idea that politics refers to “the leadership or the influence of leadership of a state” (1, 27). Politics in this sense proves itself to be a domineering force, but this begs the question what is a state? Weber promptly answers this question expressing: “a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory… The state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence” (1, 27). By defining a state in these terms, Weber is not trying to limit the definition by allowing only this to define the institution, but rather force is the means specific to the state...
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...Smith 1 Jeff Smith Box 4534 Dr. Kevin Durant Palmer Paper 03/22/13 Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer, In the book, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer, one will find many truths to help them on the path of finding their identity in vocation. Human beings are searching for authenticity of the soul that lives within them and Palmer gives each of us clues to help make the process easier. His constant message throughout the book asks, “Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?” I personally found this book challenging and it made me think about my vocation as a minister as a whole. I know God has called me to the ministry, but I am still working through the fine-tuning of that calling. In other words, is God calling me to work as a pastor, missionary, youth minister, teacher, or a music worship leader? My seminary experience is helping me figure this out. However, I feel I am called to all of the above in some capacity. Regardless, of the vocational outcome the only thing I can control today is my relationship with God. I appreciate the words Palmer uses to address this and I feel it resonates my own identity. God asks us to only honor our created nature, which means our limits as well as potentials (Palmer 50). My first year of seminary has afforded me to explore what my limits are. It is obvious that I cannot do everything like I Smith...
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...Review of The Christian Calling to Business Life I have dealt with many people in my lifetime. In my opinion, people with religion believes do have better quality than the people don’t have. I came from China, and most Chinese people don’t have religions. They don’t even know wait in line when they are at cashier. When an old Chinese lady fell down on the street, there was nobody even trying to help her out because they were afraid of being framed. After reading “The Christian Calling to Business Life” by Shirley J. Roels, I deeply realize that Christian will bring a better quality of business styles. Church and its leadership structure are actually as same as business. They were both created with the same concepts. In Church organization, the people in ministry consist pastors, worship leaders etc, and they are guided by our GOD. In business, it consists employer, employee, supervisor, manager, and regular workers. In Shirley’s article, she highly recommended that Christian should be called in order to better quality the business, and she also suggested this should be happened in 21st century. This really brings me a bright sight that there are many businesses went to bankrupt or collapse nowadays. But I did not hear a Church falling down so far. The reason been is the Church’s effective leadership and its ethical strategies are more powerful than a regular business. This theory really leads me to imagine if there is a business filled out with all Christians from the...
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...future. Information technology has become a major industry in every organization and also in personal life at a daily level. There are different industries like banking, consulting, business solutions, logistics and many more which run all these system on the latest applications and data maintenance tools and for the smooth run of their business they have strong dedicated Information technology department. When we work as an I.T. professional we are not just solving problems but instead we are helping our fellow neighbors and this is not just help it is a call from God to help others and form a bridge. An I.T. professional should be committed towards his work and the duties assigned to him to solve problems but also follow the process of vocation. As we take a look at the ethics and moral values we see that the study of ethics is not just involvement of basic instrumental values but also refers to the complete domain of moral philosophy and morality. The terms moral is derived from a Latin word “mores” and the word ethics comes from the Greek word “ethos”. We see the real idea and meaning of these words directly or indirectly refers to the actual belief and practices of people like their way of living, their culture and customs. “We as people are confronted with the difficult task of justifying ethical policies about the novel applications of computer technology even within a community because computer technology generates policy vacuums which means situations in which there...
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...A Review of “Vocation of the Business Leader- A Reflection” By Jessica Pellicane The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (PCJP) is a Catholic-based organization whose main role is to conduct action-oriented studies with an aim of promoting international justice, peace, and human rights from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church. The ‘Vocation of the Business Leader- a Reflection’ is a report on a seminar entitled Caritas in Veritate: The Logic of Gift and the Meaning of Business that was held in February 2011 at the PCJP. The report highlights the practical guiding principles for business men and women on Christian practices in the contemporary economic and financial world. It also acts as a handbook to be utilized by professors to instruct students in schools and universities on ethical dilemmas and good business practices. The report emphasizes the need for human dignity and service to the common good in business practices. It is generally meant to enable Christian business people to overcome the challenges presented by different unique circumstances in the corporate world and strike a balance between Christian faith and contemporary business practices. This is explored through three stages including seeing, judging and acting. The report suggests the proper functioning business markets and economies focused on serving the common good greatly contribute to both material and spiritual well being in the society. Moreover, good management practices...
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...Introduction Regardless of what the world think I believe that mankind was created in the image of God. Being created in His image definitely has an effect on my vocation. A vocation can be define as a particular occupation, business, or profession, or your divine call to God’s service or to the Christian life. I’m actually walking in my vocation right now. I was ordained a Minister in December of 2012. I have learned since then that I must be true, live holy, and have faith. Example 1 - I Must Be True Being true in my vocation is the key to helping people know that you are authentic. To walk in trueness one must be real, genuine, sincere, not deceitful, loyal and faithful. I remember as a child always hearing the phrase, “it’s better to hear the ugly truth versus a good lie.” I have learned as a Christian that walking in truth is the having the image of God. Everything about God is true. According to Jeremiah 10:10: But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. His word is true, His Son Jesus is the truth, and this world was made based upon the truth. As I live out my vocation I understand that I must be true with myself first before I can be true to anybody else. Being made in the image of God makes it so easy to live out the image of God. Because I am made in His image and after His likeness I can operate like He does. No matter how hard it...
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...Vocation of Being a Leader The article is mainly a guide to business men and women on their vocation in discovering the good and living an integrated life on their service. It is said that there are obstacles on serving good, which includes corruption, greediness, and poor stewardship, among the others. However, it seems that the most significant point is leading a “divided” life, which is an imbalance between the faith and daily business. To help balance the demands of the business world, there are three stages which are interconnected to help give perspective on the ethical principles one should embody. One of the steps Is Seeing, which interprets that none of us can be entirely independent, and that we are interconnected to one another. The challenges and opportunities factor in both good and evil, including the signs of the times which impact businesses. The changes in our era have made us an individualistic person, one who thinks what is better for him and one who focuses on maximizing his wealth. I think it is time for us to really observe ourselves on what we have become and on thinking of how we can improve not only for ourselves, but also for the betterment of our society. The second one is Judging, which says that good business decisions are rooted at our principles and foundation. To become a good business leader, one of the few things we should focus on includes creating trust with our employees, producing genuine goods and services...
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...TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0 Introduction | | 2.0 Issues Surrounding the Professionalism of Accounting | | 3.0 Literature Review | | 4.0 Presentation of the main Idea about the Professionalism of Accounting | | 5.0 Analysis and discussion | | 6.0 Conclusion | | 7.0 Reference | | 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 ISSUES SURROUNDING THE PROFESSIONALISM OF ACCOUNTING Twenty years ago, Briloff (1986) alerted the profession to the crisis of credibility being faced because society perceived accountants to have lost their commitment to public service. The credibility of the profession is threatened when the ideals of integrity, independence, public service and ethical standards come under suspicion. Well-known scandals of one of the major leading accounting firms in the United States Arthur Andersen coupled with alleged unethical acts committed by Enron have arouse the conscious of the public and stakeholders as to the moral decline and unethical posture of public accountants unveiled a decline in moral reasoning and ethical standards of public accountants (Dellaportas, 2006; Esmond-Kiger, 2004). Over the last few years, the accounting profession has been beaten up badly in the media, somewhat justifiably. The forces at work were numerous and complex and a variety of phenomena created the entire profession had its reputation tarnished. Some forces were not new: delivering services that acted to impair independence; becoming too cozy with clients, active participation...
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...Career Self-Development | Research Paper | | | | Majd Mohammed | [Pick the date] | | Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Classification of Career 3 2.1. Overall Goals & Objectives Development 3 2.2. Short Term Career Goal (few months to 2 years) 4 2.3. Long Term Career Goal (above 10 years) 4 2.4. Making Career Choices and Decisions 4 2.5. Managing the Organizational Career 4 2.6. Managing Boundary-less Careers 4 2.7. Taking control of personal development 4 3. Career Planning 5 3.1. Importance of Career Planning 5 4. Process of Career Planning 5 4.1. Self Assessment 5 4.2. Self Development 6 4.3. Career Research and Development 6 4.4. Action Plan 6 5. Need to Understand Career Self Management 7 6. Types of Career 7 7. Career Orientation 8 7.1. Organizational Tenure and Age 8 7.2. Employment Status and Gender 9 7.3. Educational Level and Employability 9 8. Conclusion 9 9. References 10 1. Introduction Career Self Management also referred to as Individual Career Management can be expressed as self monitored and examined process of planning the carrier. It involves selecting and setting of goals and working on strategies for achieving them. In recent times career options have increased to a great extent. Career opportunities have also increased due to rapidly development of technology and globalization. It is very essential to manage the career and understand the opportunities with...
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...The Meaning of Vocation The definition of a vocation can be interpreted in different forms, which eventually will either help fulfill that missing gap in life, or will end up bouncing back at square one. When one is not guided by the true definition of vocation, it may be easy to fall off the path God had planned for me. Lucky the Catechism of the Catholic Church and John Paul’s Meaning of Vocation can guide to what I will find happiness in. What I will need to do to answer the question” What is a vocation?” is first obtain the best definitions of a vocation, then what steps it may take to acquire my vocation, lastly talk about what I have been doing currently to discern my own vocation. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, vocation is “life in the Holy Spirit fulfills the vocation of man. This life is made up of divine charity and human solidarity. It is graciously offered as salvation “(CCC, 1699). John Paul II’s version is slightly different, and he says, “The vocation is a breathing of the Holy Spirit, who, at the same time as he genuinely shapes our fragile human reality, shines a new light into our hearts. He instills an extraordinary power that merges our existence into the divine enterprise” (MOV 16). How I interpret this is that God has a plan for me and when I follow it I will truly get to see and feel the happiness that every person strives for in their life. How a person is called to discern their vocation, and how does one answers it? This question...
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...foundation upon which we as Christians live. This principle also applies to our vocations in life. We have to have knowledge of our various vocations. I don’t believe that anyone wants a surgeon to perform a procedure if they have no knowledge of what they are doing. Not only do we want to seek out what God wants us to be doing with our lives but, also we want to remain relevant in our vocations. The world around us changes every day. What worked back in 1972 may not work in 2015. Therefore, we have to continually seek knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Romans 12:2 is a very familiar scripture to most Christians. It states how we should not conform to the ways of the world but, change the way we think so that we will know God’s will for our lives. We are not just to think about the economic impact of getting a higher education to choose one vocation over another. Learning is continuous and it is of upmost importance to know God’s will for one’s life. According to Proverbs 1:7, we should fear the Lord for this is the beginning of knowledge. In obedience to God we should seek His face when choosing an institution of higher learning and choosing a vocation. God can then direct our paths and lead us into the vocation that we are to do for His glory. In Proverbs 4:13 we are taught to hold on to instruction and guard it well for it is our lives. We are not only to hold on to instruction for our various vocations but to hold on to God’s instructions for our lives. Without instructions...
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...Self-leadership in its simplest term is the leadership of oneself. However, how one leads themselves and if they do so effectively determines whether their leadership journey will become a transformational one or not (Neck, Manz, & Houghton, 2017). This transformational journey of self-leadership must begin by discovering one’s vocation, mastering mindfulness, and feeding one’s curiosity as these three tools lay the foundation from upon which to build. Self-Leadership Self-leadership, grounded in behavioral and cognitive strategies, “addresses not only how but also what and why” to aid in positivity and productivity (Neck et al., 2017). By focusing one’s attention on behavioral and cognitive strategies, you are shaping and reshaping yourself....
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...problems and descriptions are the following: A) Students don not have free time for everything : It is an academically problems because students do not know how to divide their time in a productive way. B) Vocation is topic which students confront every day in any career: It is a motivational problem because they feel confused about if they are in the correct career. C) The students are missing their families: It is a personal problem because if the student leaves the house and the family for study in other city, he will be missing them and getting demotivation. Possible solutions: A) Time: 1) The student has to make a strict schedule and follow it perfectly. 2) Learn to say no more feasts. 3) Focus just in the academic things. 4) Every day give time to study English out of the classroom. 5) Be responsible with rest hours. 6) If the student is working he should leave his job. 7) Stop studying and leave the university. 8) Prioritize the academic things of extra programmatic activities. 9) Compare the things that the student has with other who is tidy and ask him; how do he do that? 10) Believe you are a slave of your studies and does not exist other thing in your life. Osorio Madrid 2 B) Vocation: 1) Think in the future and what opportunities do you have. 2) Analyze the question “Why I am studying?” 3) Assist always to class and start to love you career as when you started first semester. ...
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...How would you feel if you could not even choose your own job, think what you want to think or favor certain people? In the novel Anthem, by Ayn Rand, all of these ideas were part of the society. Because he is very intelligent, the Council of Vocations assigns Equality 7-2521 the job of a street sweeper with sinister motivation to keep him from doing things that he is not allowed to be doing such as being curious, favoring people, and inventing new things and ideas. While Equality was in school, the teachers and leaders frowned upon him because they thought "There is evil in your bones, Equality 7–2521, for your body has grown beyond the bodies of your brothers"(Rand 18). Equality was different compared to everyone else. He stood six feet tall...
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