By:
Margaret Hamlin
Knowing how to be personal responsible, will help students be successful in college. Being accountable, setting goals and using good time management skills will help to determine college success.
Personal responsibility is the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions. A corollary idea is that because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable or legally liable. Personal responsibility can be contrasted to the idea that human actions are caused by conditions beyond the agent 's control.”(wikiquote.org) Personal responsibility is knowing what you have to in order to get something done is important. Personal responsibility is your key to success, no matter what you are trying to succeed in. When having personal responsibility you can gain a lot such a college degree or a successful job. It is up to you to be determine and develop a plan that will help you along with your personal responsibility.
Personal responsibility with college success, most students feel as if it is the instructor’s responsibility and other student’s responsibility to help them to succeed in college. As a college student it is your responsibility to make sure that you succeed in college. Personal responsibility is knowing and accepting your consequences from you own actions and trying to improve them to make the right changes. By doing that you have to set your goals and have time management.
I reviewed an article a great article that gave a survey of 138 college students reveals an undergraduate major has a greater influence on corporate social responsibility than business ethics. Business students are no less ethical than nonbusiness students. Females are more ethical and socially responsible than males. Age is negatively related to one 's Machiavellian orientation and positively related to negative attitudes about corporate efforts at social responsibility. The
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