“The Right Thing”

by Jeffrey Seglin

CHAPTER 2: HIRING  

This chapter talks about issues with regard to the hiring up to the firing of employees. Of course not all those who applied for the job will be accepted, and not all of those who are accepted are assured of job security, because not everyone performs and/or has the same ability as the other has. For the company’s part, they should make sure that whenever they do a lay-off, those employees who are laid-off must be assured very well of a dismissal pay, and make sure also that those who have remained are well-deserving and essential to the growth of the company. With the growing production of technological services, the manpower resources are also decrementing in number as they are replaced by machines already.

CHAPTER 3: BOSSES  

Bosses are our superior in an organization or just in any small groups. We follow them respectfully and do whatever is commanded to us by them. We know that because they are above us, they should be more appropriate in decisions and actions for the company. But if the bosses themselves make an anomaly not only within the organization, but also maybe in the country, they set a bad example for their subordinates to follow. There have been such similar cases already in the Philippine context. This chapter helps readers to full understand situations that could arise to their bosses. It says that if we were given a favour by our boss, we should also give back to what they did and also the other way around. However, it is already our duty to know what is really ethical when the boss would give some directions for us to execute right away. We must also investigate on what really is the motive of his/her actions. In return, the bosses must be professional enough in his own craft because he is always emulated by the employees on his own ways.  

CHAPTER 5: LYING, CHEATING, STEALING 

In this chapter, it exemplified a realistic case about a woman who owns a start-up website and namedrop executives who are really not in his company. With her confidence of being recognized as a respectable company, she published fake email addresses to show that she employs them. On the other articles in the chapter, there are also stories regarding lying and cheating within organizations. These organizations have had their own story on these topics. Stealing is also a big issue here because some people tend to be too poised and used to stealing already just like what happened to some of the people in the chapter.  It is treated differently from other cases because of their severity to the public.