1. Thanks for sharing! You touch on how certain types of laws and regulations can impact certain types of businesses. Within many different industries, there are various laws and policies in place that are more tied to that specific industry. For instance, the importance of maintaining high ethical character when researching and obtaining evidence is more pertinent in the field of law. In that career field, there are many ethical standards that must be followed, specific to the various laws that are in place. This is the case with many other different industries as well. Within the healthcare field, there are certain ethical standards that must be adhered to as well. General integrity should be followed in every field, however, within certain fields, there are additional policies and guidelines that need to be taken into account as well.
What are some specific ethical guidelines that may be specific to the career field that you are looking to go into? How might those differ with other fields?
2. You touch on the importance of communication. This is a good point. Effective communication is the key building block in maintaining strong teams. One aspect of effective communication is clarity. This is very important because if someone is not clear on something such as the variables that go into a decision or a task that needs to be handled, it can be difficult for that task to get accomplished. For instance, if your supervisor assigns an additional project to you, but does not provide enough direction or explanation of how the project needs to be completed, it can make the thinking process tougher than it needs to be and result in mediocre quality work. Clarity is a key component to many things such as communication and written directions or instructions.
Can you think of a time where someone in your professional life has not been fully clear when giving you directions or setting a goal? How did this affect you? How can the lack of clarity impact the quality of work being done?
3. I think too many hiring managers get caught up in the experience and education of someone's resume that they overlook the personality of that individual. Experience and education are important, but to me, they are not the deciding factor on who to hire. The ins and outs of the job can often be taught and learned. The intangible things like personality, ethics, and attitude are much more difficult to coach on. I would much rather have someone that has strong ethics, a good personality that clicks with other employees, and a strong work ethic and attitude than someone that has more experience and education, but lacks in those intangible areas.
What are your thoughts? Do you feel experience and educational background outweighs personality, attitude, and personal ethical views? Or is it the other way around?
4. The situation you mention sounded like a pretty large problem waiting to blow up even further. Conflict is something that can exist and the individuals involved must find a way to resolve it. However, if the conflict goes unresolved and builds up over time, the relationship between the individuals involved could be so deteriorated, that it may be difficult to overcome. This could spill over and impact other employees around them. This will impact productivity and overall company effectiveness.
Who has ever been in a conflict similar to this? How did you handle it and how was it resolved? Feel free to pull concepts from the text in your response
5. When it comes to problem solving, it is easy to think of critical thinking. With each experience we encounter, we learn to adjust and adapt our thinking process so when the next time it occurs, we will be able to more effectively think through it. However, sometimes when that thing occurs again, it might be part of a slightly different situation with a few different variables that we did not encounter the last time around. So, we have to think through it in a slightly different way. For instance, I can drive to work the same way each day and I get to know the roads and different intersections to anticipate certain things that might occur. However, throw in a minor fender bender, and the variables of that drive change a bit where I have to account for some different aspects. The same can be said of managing critical thinking and organizational behavior.
Can you think of other examples from your professional life where effective critical thinking and problem solving helped fix an issue within an organization?