Essay on "Identifying Personal Values and Appreciating Diversity"

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considerations play into the assumption of such roles is crucial.

Thus, the moral compass which functions today in helping me to make

difficult decisions would come from an intercession of organizational and

personal values. Of course, this would be no easy course of development.

The very notion of business ethics conjures up a greater wealth of

corrupted images than those images which might correspond with its intended

implications. In entering into the business world, this cynicism would

develop fast. I would find that, in correspondence with literature on the

subject, "the problem with business ethics now is not vulgar ignorance but

a far more sophisticated confusion concerning exactly what the subject is

supposed to do and how." (Solomon, 315)

In my own experience, this is a vital conflict of interest derived

from an absence of clear ethical policy orientation in most profession

organizations. Given my personal background, this is something which I

have resisted as I have sought to develop a career. Therefore, in any

organizational dilemma, I tend to bring a great deal of personal experience

to the objective evaluation of the ethical realties relating to certain

decisions. While a well-informed moral compass does not always guarantee

a decision-maker freedom from negative consequences, but it does invoke a

defensible process by which decisions may be arrived at. This is a balance

which I would have to learn all too well as I ascended to one of more first

roles of leadership. Here, I would learn that

"the emphasis on material self-interest and the rejection of the emotions

as a positive factor in business conduct have been traditionally associated

with a concept called 'rational economic man.' (Klein, 347) This is a mode

which would suit me with great importance as I developed a clear sense of

my responsibilities as one employed to do a job. Within the context of any

organization, I have developed to believe in the direct correlation between

my personal preservation and the extension of the organization's interests.

Therefore, I am inclined to reflect on one such experience as having been

most directly demonstrative of my moral compass under such a premise.

As the assembly room manager for a small medical supply company, I

had both a great deal of responsibility and some professional opportunity.

As to this opportunity, I was in the unique position to offer a friend a

job, in which position I would be his supervisor. Based on the friend's

need for a job and my… READ MORE