Article title

The slippery slope of getting away with small stuff     –By Bryan Borzykowski

reference:   http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140806-the-slippery-slope

Opinions:

According to  this article, the slippery slope effect can be defined as a idea of an action that lead to unacceptable, extreme results. For example, within this article, people who are affected by slippery-slope effect all started from taking a little bit, and then gradually lost control by taking huge amount. As a result, those people crossed the line of ethic and committed unethical act at their works.

I understand the negative effect of slippery slope effect ,but how to avoid it? How to avoid people to commit to unethical actions during their works? I think the education of business ethic is crucial at this point,which means companies  need to make it clear to all of their employees that unethical behaviours are inhibited. Companies need to set up some policies to help employees keep away from unethical actions, then people will be aware of unethical acts. Someone may say that when they start to take things from the company , this action creates values for his or her own good. However, I disagree with this idea because  unethical actions in business disrupt the interest of the whole business company. The truth is that customers, employees, stockholders,suppliers etc. share the same interest together, so while the company’s interest is deprived, everyone’s interest is deprived as well.  So I think its necessary to build a brief idea of ethic in business and keep away from unethical behaviours.  Just as what Blair in this article says,

“Instead of staying two feet away from the line, I now need to stay two miles away. That’s the best protection for me, to not even get near a place where there could be danger.”

Reflection of first COMM 101 Class:

My first COMM 101 class in UBC is totally different from what I expected before. I thought what I need to do at class is simply listening to professor’s lecture and taking notes, however, unlike other courses that I took before, COMM 101 is more like a huge discussion within the whole class, which means anybody is free to make own comments. The first thing I learnt during the first COMM class is to read through title several times before making  a conclusion, which means I need to read everything very carefully and think deeply because sometimes things are not as easy as they look like.So COMM101 requires me to do more critical thinking.

And after taking my first class,I feel excited  because I know that I will “learn by doing” in the following classes. The best thing of this course is to hear opinions from so many people with different cultural background.However, I didn’t share my thought at the first class because speaking in front of a camera do make me feel nervous.But I will try to be more brave next class.

Business News Opinion

I read a news about Google’s action of re-entering China’s market. Since 2010, Google shocked down most of its operations inside China’s mainland and shifted rest of them to Hong Kong, and therefore Google services are unavailable in mainland China, but now, Google already made the it’s first step to come back to China:

“Motorola, its former handset unit (now owned by Lenovo, a Chinese firm), launched the first smartwatch supported by Google and powered by its operating system, Android, that understands Chinese voice commands.– Android in China:the Lure of the Mobile Kingdom”.

As we know, Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google,So this news can be seen as a sign that Google will re-enter China.Personally, I would like to see Google’s come back because it will bring me so many convenient .However, in my opinion, re-entering China is a long term process  for Google to accomplish and this firm needs to get over a lot of difficulties. Firstly, Google has left China for 4 years, which means during the intense competition with other competitors(for example Apple, Apple expanded it’s market in China successfully in the past few years), Google’ve lost the world’s biggest mobile device market since its exit, and thus  the biggest challenge for Google is to regain the customers they’ve lost.  Meanwhile, Google’s another challenge is to get the permission from China’s government, Google should seek for cooperation with China’s government as well as obey the rules that established by China’s government. Besides that, innovation is another key point, Google should make some changes otherwise it will lose it’s competitiveness compared with local companies from China.

source: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21664199-re-entering-china-will-be-hard-google-it-may-still-try-lure-mobile-kingdom

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