Saying you’ll do the right thing is easy. Doing it is much harder.
Updates from Thursday 12th September, 2013 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Riley Guttman
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Xinyue (angela) Li
Business should focus on values. If they do well on the ethical aspect, profits will come naturally.
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Mikhail Nikolaychuk
The fact that students decided laying off workers in the theretical situation does not neccessarily mean they would do that in reality…
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Yating Zhang
At school, we can create good atmosphere here. It’s true that ethics is important for us to learn. so I think it is a good idea.
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Meggie Liu
When a business tends to maximize value instead of profit, they are likely to be more successful.
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Darya Jalali
It is extremely impersonal to look at employees as an equation, within that equation there can be successful workers
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Emily Chang
This example took place in a classroom;therefore non-realistic.Hence,students will consider other factors if truly immersed in reality
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yuri0104
We learnt that in order for a business to be successful, they must take into account the well-being of their employees, not solely profit.
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Huijia Yang
It is difficult to train people to be ethical. They know they should be but they just don’t want to.
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Danielle Lim
Although we see the justification behind the equation, it isn’t entirely ethical as it doesn’t account for other aspects of the employee.
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yuri0104
We learnt that in order for a business to be successful, they must take into account the well-being of their employees, not solely profit.
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yuri0104
We learnt that in order for a business to be successful, they must take into account the well-being of their employees, not solely profit.
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yuri0104
We learnt that in order for a business to be successful, they must take into account the well-being of their employees, not solely profit.
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Xu Yueting
It is not fair for every students if only using equations to test their talent.
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Fangxian Guan
I think this is not solely an ethic problem. It is also important for employees to consider the position of the CEO and that of the company.
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pialim
I don’t think people can be trained to be ethical, only shown the benefits of being so.
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yuri0104
We learnt that in order for a business to be successful, they must take into account the well-being of their employees, not solely profit.
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victoriayang
The article makes “heartless” firing of employees sound bad, but sometimes it is necessary to continue to provide jobs for other workers.
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Xinyue (angela) Li
it’s important to train students to be ethical. They should be trained to care for other people and make our society better.
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Taylor Tam
It’s easy to be narrowminded when using an equation, because all you want to do is solve for “x”.
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hangbinlim
People have different talents. It is wrong to simply decide a person’s true potential by algerbra.
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Megan Chan
They equation is flawed becuase it does not account for the quality of the employees.
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Karlyn Evans
When we put names to numbers, we recognize the effect of our actions. This removes the objectivity of scientific method in business.
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Krista Wilson
Ethical tools should be taught from the start within the companies or school. Look at all the factors don;t relate someone to a number
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Aarun Sandhu
basically manager makes decisions based on just formulas and equations, it is easier to lay off workers compared to looking at each person
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Megan Barnabe
It’s important to know how your decisions affect the community around you. You need to think of your employees as people and not numbers.
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Maddie Ladner
Students didn’t acknowledge the fact that these are working people, they only viewed them as numbers. There are consequences to downsizing.
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Peter Chen
Teaching ethics is difficult, but the important thing to do in business school is raise the ethical awareness involved in management
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jacobpawer
we came up with the fact that its important business students learn how to view people as individuals not just as a potential way to profit
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Chloe Hoy
When given an equation, we tend to be more narrow-minded in solving (only thinking about it scientifically rather than critically).
pialim 7:59 am on September 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
But how would you quantify the “quality” of employees?
meganchan 8:01 am on September 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
those who are more efficient and affective at their job are generally valued more than those who are not, therefore higher quality