Personal Integrity
The moral compass includes my attitude to society, my family and myself and life persuasions that help me to build the relationships. Being a good human is one of the most significant things to me. From eastern Wisdom Traditions, I have got the idea of respect to my parents and siblings, elder and wiser people, women and people around me. I prefer to honor the traditions and rules of my culture and society. From my parents, I have decided that I cannot let down my relatives and people, which rely on me. I think this knowledge can help me to build the right attitude to work in a team as a leader. Feelings of responsibility and honesty are the most valuable for me from my background.
Moral Vision
A good life, as for me, is following your real destination without fear but with hard work. Only the hard work can lead to you to your goals. Living a good life means being educated with a good job and happy healthy family. Also, it is about to have an ability for receiving life advantages and helping another people with their troubles. I have a dream of big own family, strong friendship and a job that would give me opportunities to career and personal development. I believe that even one person can change the world around in a better way. Everyone in our world has a life purpose and its honest following can open for more happiness. People from my community believe in an honest hard working without complaining. This attitude had an impact on my moral vision. The film story “Forrest Gump” always motivates and inspires me. No matter how far you are from your dream, you should run right along. Even if you are not perfect for this world, you always can find your own place and make your job perfectly. The only thing is faith in yourself and constantly working. Such commitment can help me to build my own business and make it for the social development. Also, I appreciate working in a team with other people. I believe that common efforts bring better results. From my culture perspective, you should always be with your partners and put their interests beyond your own. It was a pleasure to know for me that American people pursue the same values.
Moral Code
My ancestors and parents gave the moral code to me. They taught me to answer for my acts, never lie and offend someone, never forget people helped me in difficult times, always be thankful and respectful, and listen to my heart making every significant choice. The moral code, as for me, consists of frames that you cannot cross. Growing up, studying and communicating with people helped me to refine and elaborate some rules (Thompson, 2009). I noticed that it is important to take people’s side and try to understand the circumstances of their acts. The other thing was about my attitude to the businesses completing. You can accomplish the goals only in case of total work completing. It means that you cannot stop on the half way. On the other hand, facing the situation from the real adult life confused me because I realized that I could not use my moral vision within the moral code all the time. As Audra Bianca in her article said, “When everything's going right, it's easy to make moral decisions” (Bianca, n.d.). There are some conditions when I should give up some of my perceptions in order to save my reputation in the modern difficult world.
Moral Fitness
I respect all cultural traditions and features, but I suppose that practices that mean living in solitude not allow you to test your moral vision and code with all your strength. Communication with wiser people or with your surroundings can bring you more effects. In society and social groups, you can improve your temper and attitude to difficult situations. I try to visit different events and meet new people, make weak and strong attaches with them. After the meetings, I can analyze my behavior and understand what feature should I get rid of or improve. It can help me to learn how to interact with people better and how to improve my personality. For example, if someone was rude to me and I showed the rude reaction in response, from that time I made a conclusion that I had to be wiser, tried not to reply in a rude way and avoided the conflict.
Defining Moment
Once I was in a public transport. I saw the little boy that was trying to steal the wallet from the woman opened bag. She did not felt it and boy was keeping reach out the thing. I knew that I should react in some way, but I did not to want to attract attention to myself. I preferred to turn away from the unpleasant situation and pretend that I had not seen anything. The boy went out of the bus with the wallet and I felt the shame instantly. That time, I gave up my moral rules and vision. I was not honest with myself and refused to help another people with the trouble. If I could change the past, I would give up my fear and catch the robber. My Wisdom Traditions came to me right after the challenge. I made a decision that I would never do the same and would never allow my fear to conquer me. I try to follow this rule every day.
Future as a Business Leader
As a future business leader, I will probably meet the challenge with recognition of the real people action purposes. Because of the lack of necessary experience and some sort of naivety, I can confuse with bad and good people. One of the opportunities for me is my ability to take other people side and to listen to them with patience and respect. According to the sharing responsibility and accountability, I suppose I can meet the challenge with the fear of general employee’s disapproval. I am not afraid of a difficult situation but I am a peaceful person and prefer to support peaceful work environment. The opportunity in building responsibility can be my ability to convince people. I will always be following both side’s interest and will be encouraging my team to self-development by material and nonmaterial motivation instruments. I would like to conduct mutually beneficial business. My philosophy is “the greatest good for the greatest number” (Craig, 2013). The process of building a society that works better for everyone can also bring me the challenge. It is hard for me to cooperate with selfish and arrogant people. On the way to building such society, they can prevent from business development. It cannot discourage me, but it can waste my time and strength. The opportunity is my faith in successful, happy and advanced society.
Summary
Preparing this assignment allowed me to analyze my moral vision and moral code once more. It was useful experience for me to know better about the conception of moral compass. It reminds me one more time about the importance of our personality in the society and business world. If I want to become a successful leader, I should use my moral compass and follow my moral code according to my Wisdom Tradition.
References
Bianca A. (n.d.). Moral Compass Leadership. Yourbusiness.azcentral.com. Retrieved from http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/moral-compass-leadership-25039.html
Craig R. (2013). Setting the moral compass of your business. Digitalist Magazine. Retrieved from
http://www.digitalistmag.com/future-of-work/2013/12/16/setting-moral-compass-business-01240807
Thompson J. L. (2009). The moral compass: Leadership for a Free World. Moral and ethical aspects. (n.d.): Information Age Publishing.
