characteristics of an ethical business

Hey everyone!

I have just been reading an article about ethical business at school. I thought you might be interested in this article, because it affects everybody.

Basically what it says is that ethical business knows the difference between making choices for financial gain and making choices that will not adversely affect other people.

 

It is also said that, it is important for an ethical business, to have a leader that demonstrates ethical behaviour in every situation and in every decision-making process. Only when the leadership conducts its business ethically, it can trickle down to all employees and in every part of the business.

 

The company must set a core value statement, just so that an ethical business can function at all stet. This core statement must be shared with each employee and followed by everyone.

 

The author also mentions that the ethical business has concern for customers, employees, vendors and the public impacted by the business.

 

What impressed me most was that an ethical business stays loyal to its partnerships even in challenging times, so both parties reap the benefits and a stronger relationship established as a result.

 

In my mind, we should all do fairly and ethically businesses, because it forces us to adhere to laws and regulations, treat employee fairly, communicate with them honestly an openly. It demonstrates fair dealings with customers and vendors including competitive pricing, timely payments and the highest quality standards in its product manufacturing.

 

What do YOU think about ethical business?


I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.

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    Sabrina

Module 3 - NGOs vocabulary

Hey everybody!

Use the following link to check your Knowledge on NGO vocabulary.


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Sabrina

press review – be popular at work

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog!

I have just been reading an article at home the other day. The article "Be popular at work" was published in “Business Spotlight” in March 2017. The article talks about how to make your colleagues like you. I thought you might be interested in this article because, it can also affect you in your future. Let me give you some information about this article.

Basically, what the article says is how we can improve our working relationships. In the article the author tells us, how to behave in the workplace so that the hours there are as pleasant and profitable as possible.

The author mentions that you shouldn’t constantly interrupt people’s work or stretch a 30-second question into a 10-minute tirade. Because in a very short time you may be at the top of the list of your most annoying co-workers. And you also should be careful and don’t make nasty comments about colleagues. One bad word or email can permanently damage your relationship with a co-worker and in addition to threatening your own professional reputation in the workplace. So always remember – be polite.

It is also said that it is important that if you have an issue with a fellow employee, have a conversation directly with that person and don’t complain to a colleague’s supervisor. Because you are already an adult and have to try to solve your misunderstandings and problems yourself.

It is also mentioned in the text, that you should listen to what the other person opposite you is telling you and, try as much as possible to remember it in a later conversation. Because that way you can make an impression on this person and she or he will like and respect you.

What surprised me was that instead of always asking your colleagues for favours, you should be the person to offer to help when you see a co-worker is overwhelmed. So you can show that you are friendly and helpful.

In my mind we should learn from that article that a heart for colleagues can make them like you, because it can affect everybody of you in your near future. 

So what do you think, about how you become popular at work?

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.
 
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Sabrina


triade – Wortschwall
annoying – ärgerlich, nervig
fellow employee – Kollege/Kollegin
supervisor – Vorgesetzter
favour – Gefalle
overhelmed – überfordert, überlastet

Fair Trade

Hello everyone!

 

Due to the fact that we were talking about the brand “Fair Trade” in our last English lesson I now want to tell you all the important things you need to know about it and I want to tell you my personal opinion.

 

In my mind Fairtrade is a good and important organisation, because it achieved better prices for small farmers and workers in developing countries.

Fairtrade also had become a price setter and organised it to share their knowledge in trading and so the farmers have more secure and stable incomes.

But it must be remembered that there is no clear evidence that Fairtrade help all farmers, because many farmers cannot afford the fees.

And you must not forget that Fairtrade promotes itself the way all brands do, and this is marketing, not education.

But be careful and do not condemn in advance, because no organization can become known and famous if it does not do marketing.

 

In my opinion, Fairtrade is a good organisation, but you should not believe every marketing activity from them.

 

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.

 

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Sabrina

producing strategies & trading

Hello everybody!

 

I have just taken part in an experiment at school the other day, which was about producing strategies and trading.

 

I was a member of the large group, so I was producing in the development country.

The first task we had to do was to decide how many products we want to produce in 24 hours. We had to decide to produce either cars or bread, or a mixture of both. The goal was to own as many breads as cars.

If we produced bread in our country, the developing country, the production took 4 hours and the production of cars took 6 hours.

My first idea was to produce 3 breads and 2 cars, so that I have as many couples of bread and cars as possible.

The second task was to deal with people from my own country. So I tried do trade with them, but we couldn’t, because in our group were a lake of cars and a sure plus of breads.

So in the next round I changed my producing strategy. I decided to only produce breads, because the next task was to get deals with the wealthy country.

As a member of the development country I tried to get a deal with a member of the wealthy country.

But also the second round of trading was difficult, because every member of the wealthy country produced as many breads as cars. I made a deal and exchanged 1 car for 3 breads. So I had a couple.

 

In my opinion, this experiment has shown us that globalization can be good and bad for us. For globalization to work and be fair, every country should produce and sell the product for which the country is most appropriate.

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.

 

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Sabrina

our trip to england

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog!

I hope you all had great holidays and enjoyed them as much as I did.
 

Due to the fact that we were talking about our trip to England in our last English lesson I now want to tell you all the important things you need to know about my motivation for a language week and spending time in a host family.

My motivation for our trip to Cornwall is on the one hand that I want to get to know the culture of my host country and on the other hand I want to learn the language English better.

Another motivation for our language week is to learn something about a new culture. For example the listen to music of England, or go shopping to some boutiques in London and their fashionable clothes. I'm also looking forward to the food in the host family, which they will cook for me.

I am also excited to see the landscape of England and especially to see the landscape of Cornwall. On television, pictures or on the internet, the landscape of Cornwall looks beautiful. In London, the capital city of England, we will do some sightseeing.

If I live in the host family and go to school every day in the host country, I will learn the language mush better. I can't wait to the many experiences in the language week.

All host families are carefully chosen by an organisation, but it can still happen that a host family and exchange student do not get on well. If the communication problems or other misunderstandings can’t be solved, the exchange student will be moved into a new family.

Host families open their home to young people from abroad to share their community and culture, as well as to enrich their own family life. Therefore the exchange students are asked to do chores around the house, for example to do the dishes or to clean the bathroom.

I think now you know enough about my motivation for a language week and spending time in a host family. Do you suddenly feel like going abroad for a few weeks ? Go for it!


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Sabrina

environmental problems

Hey everyone!

 

I have just been listening to an article about a new poll, which talked about environmental problems, at school the other day. I thought you might be interested about this poll because, it affects everybody.

 

Basically, what it says is that youths aged 13 to 18 were interviewed on teens’ attitudes towards environmental issues.

 

It is also said that teens strongly believe that acting now can make move us towards a solution. 3 out of 4 teens agreed that previous generations have damaged our environment and left it to their generation to fix it.

 

In the article is also mentions that youngsters think, that the best reason to preserve nature is, because it is for its own sake or to preserve the benefits people can get from it. When young people are outdoors, the most of them feel peaceful an free, two of 3 people feel calm and happy and more than a half feel alive and curious.

 

What shocked me most was that the global warming is already a serious problem to teens and almost nearly half of the polled teens think that global warming is a extremely or very serious problem.

 

We also started a poll in our class and we figured out that Austrian teens would give similar answers, there are only some little differences. For Austrian teens global warming is also a very seriously problem and the best reason to preserve nature is, because it is for its own sake. When Austrian teens are outdoors the most of them feel peaceful and free and only 1 out of 18 feel alive and curious.

 

I think we all can solve some environmental problem, for example pay attention which products you buy, from where they are and of course take care about the ingredients of the products. Buy products of your near environment and of the season. These are only some ideas towards a healthy environment, there are much more.

 

In my mind we all should be more careful with our environment, because even the next generation should also have a nice environment.

 

What do YOU think about environmental problems?

 

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.

 

See you soon,

 

Sabrina