IES 301 Paper
This summative paper was a part of the organizational ethics course within the IES program. This course focused on the complexity of organizations using theories and social constructs. This involves the barriers within organizations, power structures, teamwork, organizational meaning, and motives. This class utilized readings and concepts to explore the political aspect of organizational structure. Class goals included identifying personal roles, experiences, and responsibilities related to organizational needs and workplace flow. This assignment specifically was centered around summarizing the many theories, concepts, and ideas that were addressed throughout the course. This meant drawing upon class readings and discussions to justify ways these concepts will be used for personal organizational involvement. The paper addresses the course learning objectives such as: understanding social challenges that exist in ethical contexts, assessing personal values and ethics in organizations, identifying cultrual sensitivity as it applies to organizational behavior, etc.
As an ethically responsible decision maker, this assignment upholds the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of identifying and understanding the need for ethical actions, a responsibility in supporting and guiding others, knowing standards of professional behavior, and assessing situations based on personal and organizational values. At the core, this course was designed to expose myself to readings, theories, and conversations about what behaviors are professional and ethical within an organization and how to uphold those values through classroom discussions and activities. This assignment outlines how I identify and understand the need for ethical actions through examples of teamwork, equal value employees, effective leadership, clear outline of organization goals and steps, and organizational communication which I explored in this assignment. Also, many of those examples mentioned are reflective of my value in being responsible for supporting and guiding others as a major aspect of organizational ethics within my career such as nurturing mistakes, team support, collective collaboration, and compassionate leadership. My use of positive and negative personal experiences was assessed to demonstrate my ability to plan and address situations based on personal and organizational values that respect and support the organization, employees, and stakeholders as a whole.
IES 103 Reflective Paper
This assignment is apart of the IES Philosophy of Helping course and serves as our final paper to demonstrate our understanding of altruism. This course was focused on analyzing how we think about helping behaviors and helping professions. This involved reading, assignments, fieldwork, and theories related to helping others in professional and personal settings. There were opportunities to provide real life examples and reflect on how certain concepts relate to our future career plans. This particular assignment was a one of two reflective papers detailing my personal journey while using course materials, discussions, fieldwork experiences, and activities.
This assignment supports what it means to be an ethically responsible decision maker. This course focus was on the importance of identifying and understanding the need for ethical actions through exploring the importance of ethical helping in class discussion and readings. In this class, I was also able to learn the standards for professional behavior and demonstrate ethically professional behaviors through the fieldwork opportunities I engaged in. This course main focus was also explaining our duty to responsibly support and guide others in our future careers as educators which I have mentioned in this paper. Lastly, this course prioritized the act of altruism and how it connects to assessing situations and planning based on organizational need aside from personal need and this is demonstrated through my personal examples in this paper.