Reynaldo Marasigan IT-ETHICS January 28, 2008
Book Review 3
Title: The Good, The Bad and your Business
Author: Jeffrey L. Seglin
Chapter1: It Hurts so Good
While we all face ethical decisions every day, we’re often unable to act in a way that resolves them. The trouble is that often we don’t know how to articulate what the actual dilemma is and as a result we find it difficult to formulate clear possible solutions. When it comes to speaking clearly about ethical dilemmas, words fail us.
Sometimes in business we have to decide on something in impromptu manner. Even before there’s a lot of ethical dilemmas to take care about. Sometimes even if we know what to do, we still deviate for what we think is right. However, sometimes we don’t know what think that I problems and issues
The attitude sometimes affects what we say the words, we thought that our knowledge is what we think is right but in fact it is just a words that could fail us. Forgetting the fact that sometimes it is really hard for us to understand things because of the fact that we are hard enough to try to figure things out. How we will interact or approach the problems because a hindrance of doing the right things at the right time.
Business ethics deals in a win-win situation wherein all could benefit on something. How we will deal with the different dilemmas in life depends on how we will handle it.
Chapter2: When Payrolls Keep Us Up at Night
A human life is worth more than money, and if the druggist makes only $1,000, he still going to live, but if Heinz doesn’t steal the drug, his wife is going to die. Why? Because the druggist can get a thousand dollars later from rich people with cancer, but Heinz cant get his wife again why not? Because are all different and you couldn’t get Heinz wife again.
Well I don’t think so. I think there might be other ways besides stealing it, like if he could borrow the money or make a loan or something, but he really shouldn’t steal the drug but his wife shouldn’t die either. Why? If he stole the drug. He might save his wife then, but if he did, he might have to go to jail, and then his wife might get sicker again, and he couldn’t get more of the drug, and it might not be good. So, there should really just talk it out and find some other way to make the money. .
The chapter gives a story about a man name Heinz who has a wife that going to die and not a drug that cause him $1,000. then they asked the question what is the right thing to do to steal or not to steal. In this case there are 2 views. Which one is right. In reality the booth of them is right yet the both of them is wrong. So the question is what the right thing to do is. In the view one Heinz will steal and try to think for the sake of his wife. Which in fact the right thing to do because life is more than money. The second gives another point and other alternatives which also in fact is right. Both could produce negative consequences.
In life there are different things that we think it is the right thing to do, but act ethical lets just consider the fact that were can we must more beneficial if take this action.
Chapter3: How to Make a Decision When you Don’t Know Enough
It is often the case that these three spheres in which we find ourselves making ethical decisions – money, people, and the common good in business overlap. The difficult task is finding a solution somewhere in the area of overlap so that needs of each are weighed.
There are often no clearly right answer where every constituency’s needs and concerns are met, but even if they’re ultimately dismissed, it becomes critical nonetheless to weigh these concerns trying to make the right choice, especially if you want to remaining the type of business person you want to be.
People are not perfect. How can we make decisions even without knowing what really the problem is. Sometimes we let go of someone just to realize how much we could care for them. Sometimes we think that everything we have is the complete things we need but in reality it can be our weakness. To decide on what is morally right, ethically the right thing to do is hard for us. Yet still on the other way around we manage to decide on the situation. The way we base and weigh it in ourselves and even the message of the person who you trust the moist.
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