Something I learned from my risk management lesson today is the question on being ethical in doing business. There are a few questions for us to answer as a team today regarding different scenarios that we would possibly get in our future career as accountants or businessman. For example, we were asked if we should accept offers from clients such as an all-paid holiday trip or a 50% discount to buy a printer for our own use since the discount is given because we help our company to purchase computers from them. These stuffs were not harmful to the company not the accounts but more of the ethical issues that we need to consider. Should we take such risks as they may still give rise to conflicts of interests?
The most impactful thing I learn from one of my classmates' answer is that we cannot always stay to be too ethical. If we were to be VERY ethical, there is no way we can go far in the competitive business industry. Yet we cannot be NOT ethical at all either, for we will lose trust in our clients and our working partners. True enough, the real working world is full of challenges and that is what make working and studying much different in this sense. The responsibility increases as we enter workforce and the challenges we face is not something that we can possibly find solutions in our textbooks or the things we learn anymore. It requires more of our own standing, knowledge and our flexibility of our way of thinking and doing things now.
Somehow when I thought of that, I will link it to the way churches are today. Like being too ethical cannot help the business to go too far, being too religious cannot help the church to go far either. And don't be mistaken that we should not follow what the bible says or similar stuffs, it is more like we should not be so rigid or stringent over the rules.
Like for traditional churches, they emphasize alot on the rules and a lot of things are not allowed here and there. For example, some of the churches may want their members to wear formal to church, some churches require the songs to be sung by the choir only and the members will keep in slience and never to cheer during praise and worship, some churches will have a fixed way of worshipping and if anything disrupt this order they possibly cannot stand the disruption and make sure everything has to go the way it is. It is like these churches are being too rigid to the rule and if any unforeseen circumstances happen they are not being flexible to change. That's what I mean being too religious. But then nothing deal with their message for they will have the message from God deliver as it is, going through all the required teachings and way of worshipping as usual...
Something I like about CHC is that it is a somewhat modernised church that brought the message from God in a way that attracts people but yet keep to the rule of God as well. Like people will question on the way CHC members dressed as we are all a bit too trendy compared to most of the other christians. This point I remember Pastor Kong has said before that we should dress up for God if we love Him and not like some shabby person. You would want to dress up in front of the person you like too right or to wear formal for your job interviews? Moreover, the joy and cheer during praise and worship certainly bring out the joy that we have for God. I mean, if you are happy to be in the house of God, why don't you want to rejoice and shout in happiness? I agree that sometimes keeping silence is a show of respect but then if you are happy you may want to voice out too ya? :P Haha...possibly different people have different views ba...no offense to anyone...lol
Haha...but I am glad that somehow my mind would just come to analysize such things when I learn something new. It is good to ponder about the things you learn, voice it out and discuss about it, and eventually the thing you learn will give you a much deeper insight and to have make an impact in your life. :) Haha...hope this will let me see clearly of my future ba...yup yup...lol
"Therefore, get your minds ready for the action, being self-disciplined, and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." ~ 1 Peter 1:13
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