Response 1
I am writing this blog in response to an entry one of my classmates had made earlier in the month concerning ethics within the workplace. Amanda Juliano had written a great entry about a fellow employee at her job in University Hospitals who had been "stealing from the company." The idea of business ethics is a complicated thing. Many people in this world are breaking rules to get ahead and become succesful. An example of this is all of the recent "cook booking" of companies like WorldCom, Tyco, and even Enron. The people in these companies were doing anything to get ahead and in the end, it cost them dearly. My dad owns his own company, and he had always stressed to me the importance of being honest with yourself and your employees. Once that line of trust is crossed, you can never gain it back. He often shares with me and example of how his treatment of other people has payed off. He tells me of a time when he was in Los Angeles at a convention with one of his co-workers. They had been at the convention for quite some time and the co-worker had noticed that my dad knew everyone in the building. He then told my dad that everyone he had talked to only had nice things to say about Jim Reed. And this is why my dad had so many friends at this convention. People knew they could trust him and respected him for being honest throughout the years. While many other businessmen could have screwed these people in order to get ahead, my dad had been straight with all of them. I think this is the ultimate compliment to receive when dealing with people and business ethics.
Comments
Posted by: Anna Lukic
Posted on: October 7, 2005 07:03 PM
wow you write a lot...