Decision trees

In the case study, Carrie's choice to accept a job with many benefits, or wait for a job that suits her belief, is an Ethical Dilemma. According to the English Oxford Living Dictionaries, Ethical Dilemma is a tough choice between two possible scenarios, which offers an individual a no win situation. A choice to take a decent job, or wait for the noble job seems to be a problem most people will face. People graduate high school, and hopefully go to college. But, if not they have to choose some…

thing.” Tony Blair. Have you ever had a difficult decision to make and then eventually decide to do the best thing for you? I feel that we happened all that to us. In the texts Thank You, Ma’am, by Langston Hughes, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and the commentary Doing The Right Thing by Rick Reilly, All the characters had role models, options and inspired others. All three authors wrote about how the characters went through difficult decisions. In the commentary Doing The Right Thing, the…

Authors Andrea Lunsford, John J Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters in their book, writes about arguments and how everything is and could be an argument. They support their claim by first explaining how everything is an argument and why we argue. Secondly, they explain when we should have an argument the past, present, and future must be included. Finally, the authors write how to use arguing in reading and writing. The authors purpose is to explain to the readers how to understand and write an…

Responsibility can be defined differently by a variety of different types of people and by the context in which they are using the word. When I think about responsibility I think about a number of different characteristics that can fall into the category of responsibility. The first characteristic that comes to mind is time management. I also think about dependability, effort, trustworthiness, and dedication as factors that can be tied into responsibility. The Bethany core value of integrity…

Is first impressions the most important, because that is what everyone says. I believe it is the least important and what is most important is identity. People can identify you in many different ways. It can either be in a good way or a bad way. For William it was a bad way people were identifying him. Finding Forrester is an example of identity and the real purpose behind all of the identity. We do not have the power to define identity, because identity defines us. What we are is what our…

Summaries of Chapter 1 & 2 in Reframing Organizations by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal (450)Chapter 1: Introduction: The Power of Reframing This chapter defines Bolman and Deal’s (2008) evaluation of leadership strategies, which involved the process of “reframing” the perspective of the manager. This reframing process is initially describe by the example of Home Depot CEO, Robert Nardelli, as part of this ever-changing learning process in leadership development. This example provides…

dilemmas stem from our ability to have options, and sometimes the right decision may not be the easiest or what we want. Making ethical decisions is hard due to our wants versus our needs. Life is not always black and white, there are often many gray areas. My daily encounters with ethical dilemmas sometimes take me by surprise. The first to respond to making an ethical decision are my emotions. I tend to rationalize some decisions purely on emotions, whether it be happy, sad, or angry. Yet,…

Each person has their own strategy, style, and tactics for how they deal with conflict (Folger, Poole, Stutman, 2013 p. 136). A person’s strategy is when they plan out a set of tactics or behaviors that they plan to follow exactly. Styles are unconscious and do not require planning ahead (Folger, Poole, Stutman, 2013 p. 136). A competing style is classified as high in assertiveness and low in cooperation An accommodating style is low in assertiveness and high in cooperative. An avoiding style…

My Journey Everyone defines the term goal differently. My definition of goal is a set thing you want to achieve. A goal is not about succeeding or even failing it’s about achieving something in a set period of your own liking. In specifying what is my academic goals while I’m at NIU.I have several goals. First describing the issues, I had in high school. I had many of goals but couldn’t achieve due to procrastination. I was on the honor roll in 9th grade with a steady year. I excelled in all of…

go through to help yourself or company to work through the ethical issue or problem that have arisen. Depending on the situation, some tough decisions may have to be made that could jeopardize work or personal relationships. Sometimes, there is not a clear, specific answer that is right. Badaracco clarifies about Aristotle's reasoning that, “A good decision is made by a person with good character after reflection in a good organization.” Ethics in a work environment can be hard to handle when…