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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Krista Wilson
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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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admin
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).
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Karina Chadijah
I think it all depends on the business’ aim. If their aim is profit-maximation, then it’s okay to lay off several employees regardless
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alexischow
When people are simply looking at an equation or statistics, it’s easy to forget that the individual numbers are actual living people too.
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valendinadebonis
Put yourself in their shoes and see if laying off all those people is the best option. Don’t always think about the money.
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Clarisa Madilao
There’s the social misconception that companies prioritize profit. It’s upsetting to see how employees are viewed as dispensable resources.
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Riley Guttman
If you take the effort to keep as many people as possible, I believe the remaining employees will be more loyal and productive.
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Paul
Harman and I agree with the findings, it is much easier to lay off employees when you just look at them as numbers rather than people.
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Nicholas Everett
With bottom line so prevalent in basic fundamental goals of a firm, becomes difficult to give a second dimension of thought – ethical side.
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Jennie Yan
This article shows the different ways in which companies lay off employees; whether they choose to look as them as numbers or individuals.
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Rachel Lee
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Xu Yueting
My family does not have a hybrid car because it’s expensive and not safe enough,
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Vaibhav Verma
My parents have a BMW which has got a “Auto start stop function”. This means that engines can turn off automatically at a complete halt.
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Huang Yu Lin (Alan)
My family doesn’t own a hybrid car and probably won’t own one until the price range is within our budget. (Tuition fees are expensive)
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Changchun Dai
Hybrid car is still a kind of new technology. Especially hybrid car’s buttery is very unsafe.Such high temperature can let buttery explode
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Fangxian Guan
No hybrid car for us
-no dominant advantage considering the price.
However, I have seen a lot of cheap motorcycles that run on electricity -
Rachel Lee
Great class today!! Thank you for all of your participation and insightful ideas 🙂 Looking forward to seeing you all in tutorial this week!
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ioannissakarellos
HI Rachel i am having a problem posting i am not sure if i am registered in the comm101sec101
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Karlyn Evans
My family owns a Toyota Prius. We traded in our old SUV for it. Our reasoning is the environmental benefits and better gas milage.
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Yan Gao(Helena)
My family has a hybrid! Although its price is a little bit higher, hybrid can save lots of gas fee and it’s environmentally-friendly.
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Mikhail Nikolaychuk
(Despite Prokhorov’s attempts), Hybrids are not particularly popular in Russia; people tend to purchase petrol, diesel or gas-powered cars.
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Jonathan Gugger
The high cost of hybrid vehicles is the primary reason why my family does not own one.
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lucasoutumuro
In Venezuela to refill the gas you usually pay less than a dollar in total. For this reason, the market of hybrid cars is non-existent.
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ltseng27
Hybrid cars are more expensive and many families already have fully functional cars at home so there is no need to purchase a new car.
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Emilie Gibeau
Our families are not looking to buy a new car and until that need arises we will not be considering alternate car options such as hybrids.
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Caitlin Lim
We don’t have hybrids because of their high cost and the inconvenience of charging the car battery. The cost was higher than the benefits.
jennieyan 7:54 am on September 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This shows how maximizing profits via mathematical functions may not be ethical.
Group: Alan Zhu, Alex Wou, Alan Huang
jennieyan 7:55 am on September 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Alan Huang = Yu Lin Huang