DOING THE RIGHT THING 21 This excerpt is from Michael J. Sandel‚ Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?‚ pp. 21-30‚ by permission of the publisher. The Runaway Trolley Suppose you are the driver of a trolley car hurtling down the track at sixty miles an hour. Up ahead you see ve workers standing on the track‚ tools in hand. You try to stop‚ but you can’t. The brakes don’t work.You feel desperate‚ because you know that if you crash into these ve workers‚ they will all die. (Let’s assume you know
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companies grow bigger and multinational‚ leading to more people working in the companies and more ethical issues arising. Responsible management relates to ‘doing things right’‚ essentially maintaining efficiency. Effectiveness is the foundation of success‚ whilst efficiency is a condition of survival after success; Effectiveness is ‘doing the right things’ (Drucker‚ 1995‚ p.33). Studies have identified companies with well-developed codes of conduct as having superior financial performance‚ gaining from an
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Doing the Right Thing It Is Always Ok To Do The Right Thing Rachel Lake Liberty University Abstract American citizens‚ whether children‚ college students or adults‚ should not be afraid to stand up for what is right. There are many reasons why a person might feel hesitant to report crimes. One reason is that it is easier to look the other way and to mind one’s own business. Students and young people should be encouraged to be responsible and report any suspicious behavior. Preventative
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As a leader you can’t impose motivation‚ but you can create an environment where people want to maximize their successes. One way of doing this is framing the future for them though a vision statement. However‚ without a leader communicating the message in a relevant and meaningful way‚ a vision statement is worth less than the paper it’s written on. When communicating your vision‚ start by describing the present situation. This is where you are now. Acknowledge efforts‚ actions and contributions
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influence someone to do good and help others. In all three of the texts‚ Doing the Right Thing‚ Thank You Ma’am‚ and “The Road Not Taken”‚ the characters have someone to look up to. These role models drastically help give the characters the courage to have integrity. The football players in the commentary Doing the Right Thing all had role models in their families to aspire to. These people gave them the courage to always do the right thing. The text explains who the players look up to‚ “These four men had
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to the rules and beliefs of doing the right thing) is an attempt to revise‚ reformulate‚ or rethink traditional (related to the rules and beliefs of doing the right thing) to the extent it (lowers in value) or reduces in value women’s moral experience. Among others‚ (related to feeling that women and men must be treated equally) (someone who thinks a lot about how people think) Alison Jagger faults traditional (related to the rules and beliefs of doing the right thing) for letting women down in five
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It depends on the perception of different individuals what is right or wrong. The first thing that comes to the mind when thinking about right and wrong is the very basic question as to how we decide what is right and what is wrong? Generally the answer is got from the societal laws or the prevalent practices or thought process. Even if the issue is resolved the fact remains that to do a wrong thing the ways and means that have to be adopted invariably start falling into the category of what
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Doing the right thing | Sustainability Strategy 2007–2015 Doing the right thing. Contents 2 3 4 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 8 1 0 2 2 2 4 2 6 2 8 2 Foreword What sustainability means to Woolworths Limited Our major commitments and targets Who is Woolworths Limited? Our external engagement Engaging our people Our sustainability priorities Climate change Water Sourcing Packaging Waste Green Stores Implementation and reporting All of us‚ every day. Foreword
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through these injustices and have been greatly affected by them. Some of them have created history because of their bravery and guts. Their drive was justice. “ Doing the right thing” is a phrase far too simple that it doesn’t give justice to complex topics such as racism and sexism. What they did was more than doing the right thing. They were doing what was necessary and what was desperately needed. Racism and Sexism have not been abolished yet‚ their loud screams have only been quieted a bit through
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around the subject that teens brains are not fully developed which leads them to making wrong decisions. Brains between the age 12 and 25 do not grow as much as they do in any other age which can be the reason on why teens always think they are doing the right thing. I think that article described the studies of the brain plus young adults behavior very vividly and I gained a lot of knowledge from this particular article. In Beautiful Brains it was discussed that teenage brains are not developed 100
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