Personal Narrative: My Summer Internship Program

The scenario happened during my recent summer internship program. I was asked by my colleague to do some research readings for his project since I was not busy at that time and I was quite free. Since he asked me politely to help him do the work, I just did the task for him. He also didn’t force me to do it for him and I`m willingly offered to help him. I knew that it was his responsibility to do the research, but I positively thought that I can get some output from doing the project. I did finished half of the research and he completed the other portion. He made the presentation on the research successfully.
I think my action was ethical because he was not using any force or threaten me if I didn’t do the job. I voluntarily lend a hand to him. He did not promised or offered any rewards or compensation for the exchange of job that I done for him. I did not stand the work based on the future rewards or benefit I get in future. The relationship that exist also influence my decision and the benefit that I earned from doing the job also the reason why my action is considered as …show more content…
I always believe that my theory on doing good is to inspire people to do better to the society. If the individual hold the principal of not expecting any rewards from others, he will do the right action. An ethical person would do the task regarding the benefits that comes after he performs the action. He could argue that he did not expect to get a positive encouragement from the boss because he sincerely do the job. The person also should be honest to himself. If he has the discipline to hold his principal of doing kind without any bad intention, he has been transparent to himself. The person that act with honesty in doing good will lead to a sincere action, without the influential idea of reputation, relationship, favoritism and other factors because his ultimate goal is inspire other to do good