Justify the value's position in the list. Include any challenges to consistently employing these values when making personal and organizational decisions. Integrity I have experienced the benefit of having integrity in the workplace. I was tasked with training a difficult new employee and reporting to management with daily evaluations. My manager trusted me to keep all our meetings and correspondence confidential. He also expected me to be honest in my evaluation of the employee's progress and counted on me to provide appropriate training. Even though we had huge personality differences and different work styles, I treated her like any new intern. By acting with integrity, I earned the respect and trust of management which led to a promotion. I put integrity at the top of my list because I believe that acting with integrity is a core value in any ethical decision. To me, integrity means holding yourself to a high set of values and moral standards. I could have treated our new hire badly or unfairly, or told my team members about her progress, but that would have meant stooping below my beliefs. Acting with integrity is not easy. It means adhering to a high set of values, even if my friends are doing something wrong. It means looking at a situation objectively and making a conscious decision every day to hold yourself to that higher standard. Responsibility I have seen that responsibility plays an important role in the workplace. My mentor taught me to take responsibility for my mistakes and not point fingers. One of his accounts had a pricing error and we overcharged him by $50,000. It was an oversight he had made. Instead of pointing the finger... at the center of the paper... diction, members of our department rallied to support her. As a department we raised over $400 to donate to a charity in his brother's name. I chose compassion as the fifth value because I believe that compassion develops relationships with people and shows concern for the well-being of others. This value is last on my list because I believe that other values play a more important role in ethical decisions, although compassion is no less important. Having compassion for others demonstrates an investment in the relationship and that decisions are not based entirely on the work aspect, but also on the well-being of others. Compassion can be difficult and exhausting. When a decision affects the lives of many, it can be difficult to think about the feelings of those affected. Without compassion, a decision may be more black and white and easier to make.
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