What is it?
In their critical thinking exercise that concludes the reading "Right or Wrong at Work", Rogers and Zemach invite us to discuss two questions that follow up ideas in the reading we have now read carefully, (2018). The two questions invite us to apply the ideas in the reading to our own experience, or to give our own opinions on related issues. We will do these one at a time, in two separate comments.
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Response
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Questions
First, question 1. You have six minutes to write your response to the question. I suggest read the paragraph, choose your topic and get ideas for about 2:00 minutes, then write for about 4:00 minutes, and then quickly review your answer.
- Which of the unethical behaviours in in paragraph 2 on page 143 do you think is the most serious? Why do you think this?
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Then start a new comment for Rogers and Zemach's question 2. Again, you have six minutes to write your response to the question. I suggest read the paragraph, choose your topic and get ideas for about 2:00 minutes, then write for about 4:00 minutes, and then quickly review your answer. 
- Do you think that the advice for the companies in paragraphs 3. and 4 on page 143 would be effective? Why or why not?
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Remember, your writing should make sense independently of the question it might be answering, so it would be useful to give background, which can often be done by paraphrasing the question into statements that begin your answer.
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Reference
- Rogers, L. & Zemach, D. E. (2018). Skillful 3: Reading & Writing (2nd. ed.). London: Macmillan Education
In my opinion, blaming other people you work with is the most serious example of unethical behaviour in paragraph 2 of "Right or Wrong at Work". I think it's the most serious because can hurt the people you blame. If your boss thinks a mistake is someone else's fault, that person might have a problem, so you have hurt the other person by blaming them. You are also a liar, and that is a bad thing to be. We all make mistakes, and I think it's better to admit that. And reasonable employers understand that. I know I sometimes make mistakes, but if I learn from them to do better next time, that is helpful, and admitting my mistakes can also help other people to avoid them, so I definitely think that lying to hide my mistakes or to blame others are the most serious unethical behaviours in the reading.
ReplyDeleteActually, i got confused. Sometimes other people are to blame for poor work, but not usually. If my work is poor, that usually means it's my fault, so blaming others is also lying to hide what I've done badly. I think those two things are closely related.
DeleteI think lying to hide mistakes is the most serious because it might be lead to other related problem in the workplace. For example, if you are a customer service in True company and your mistake is you have made your customer angry with reasonable answers about their problem on your company's service and you hind it with out report what have happened with your manager since you think it a small problem, but your customer wants to sue the company because of the problem, which could lead conflict in your career path.
ReplyDeleteBlaming someone else for your work is the most serious unethical behaviour because those employees lack of their responsibility, being liar and having no right to blame colleagues. Even if their works are correct or wrong. If those employees do a mistake in that work and then blame others that more serious.
ReplyDeleteFrom those context, I suppose ,the lying for hiding certain mistakes probably is the most serious wrong, since if somone begining from basic lie, thought that it would be fine the serious mistakes would be happend. For instance, if there is a employee lie about he or she have done the work, however it is not the real then finally he or she would be punished.
ReplyDeleteLying to hide mistakes is the most serious for me because it can lead to other illegal things. Hiding the mistakes show that people don't have the responsibility and lack of regret. Moreover, just one mistake also can cause a huge problem so we should fix it rapidly
ReplyDeleteAlthough I think that hiring people according to their values is a good idea, I'm not sure how effective it would be at reducing unethical behaviour at work. This is because I think that all of us are easily tempted into unethical behaviour, such as taking a small amount of office supplies for personal use, or lying a little bit to pay a little bit less tax. Most people probably aren't too dishonest, but if everyone is doing it, it adds up to a lot, as corruption in my country used to show.
ReplyDeleteI think that having code of conduct is must more effective at reducing unethical behaviour, but you have to remind people of it often. The reading suggests once a year, but maybe more often is good, perhaps every time before an important task is done. And a few years ago some behavioural economists did a study that supports this: almost all of us are a little bit dishonest, but if reminded of a code of ethics, we become much more honest, at least for a short time. (The lead researcher was Dan Ariely - I'll try to find the study and post it later. It's quite short, and very interesting.)
I think the individual's values consideration is a good chose to do while recruiting process. It would work because people who are have moral and good manner, they trend to normally respect the rules and others.
ReplyDeleteBoth advices are not effective strategies that we can measure them. In case of the first advice, creating a code of conduct, is not effective if employer do not follow that code and being a good model, which lead to employee loyalty. The latter advice, recruiting a right person, is not a good strategy because we cannot know the real action of that person. They may pretend to be good value for only employer that why Chinese company look....
ReplyDeleteCreating codes of conduct is one of the effective ways to enhance society in working places, leading to no doubt and clear understanding; however, I think that some employees mightn't be able to adjust themselves well with new rules. Following that, hiring the right person may be the best solution in case of focusing on the happiness of workers
ReplyDeleteI think the advices quite effective, because it is the right idea to build the rules of conduct for making the reasonable communicate in those corporate. For example, in my mom's office has the creating a code of conduct such as we should clean the place and also has the hiring the right person for creating or responsibility the best of their ability.
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