Total Rewards Knowledge 9: Engaging Employees
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The focus of the video is tying total rewards to overall employee engagement. Now, you must communicate to the senior management team in your own words exactly what that means. Be creative with your response and you may not use any references for your response. https://youtu.be/5VgBQ9oXBbQ
If “soul friendships” represent our highest attainment of friendship and require great honesty and pure love, what might be our ethical obligation to attempt to nurture such friendships?
Analyze, drawing upon examples from your own life, whether such friendships are possible and explain some of the ethical considerations that accompany them.
Aristotle considers the highest level of friendship to be that of the soul. This level is observable in religions, communities, some private organizations and lifelong friends. It is the most profound level of the three and is described as friends who love each other as they love themselves. Cicero & Quincey (1920) stated, “Whoever is in possession of a true friend sees the exact counterpart of his own soul.” This is a deep human connection and is testament to for those who share a level of intimacy which is reciprocated. A contemporary phrase which society is mostly familiar with is ‘soul mates’ or simply ‘soul friends.’
It is our ethical obligations to nurture this type of friendship because I believe it enables us to survive as a species and allow our respective cultures to remain and adaptive mechanism for our society and physical environment. What I am proposing is that sustaining “soul friendships” have long term effects on the acceptance of diversity and to degrade cultural inequities across the globe. I also believe that such friendships are possible and have been actively experiencing such friendships for years. Actually, a new friendship may be in the works.
A friend of mine, whom I consider a ‘good’ friend recently receive some bad news from home. She is currently stationed in Korea, so she is isolated from a social scene. I was very humbled to have received a message from her stating that I was one of the first people that she contacted to vent. Realizing this, and with this class in mind, I am happy to say that I am approaching this new development in our friends as altruistically as I can. Vernon (2010) allowed me to understand this development when I read, “soul friendship is fundamentally the unrepeatable experience of knowing, and being known, by that one, particular person.”
References
Cicero, M. Tullius., De Quincey, T. (1920) Whoever is in possession of a true friend sees the exact counterpart of his own soul
Vernon, M. (2010). The Meaning of Friendship. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
So many great movie friendships to choose from. Bill and Ted. Wayne and Garth. Lucie and Ethel. Dumb and Dumber. My favorite book/movie ever, Lonesome Dove, is loaded with some of the most complex friendships ever (McMurtry, 1981). The movie pulls you into their friendship using the romance of the old west, cattle drives, Indians, hangings, and prostitutes. Everything required to make a great movie. And great friendships. The friendship of the two main characters was very complex. They didn’t spend all of their time together. They seemed as different as two people could be. But they were still the same in all of the important ways. But the friendship is flawed. Gus and Call were forced to hang one of their other friends, Jake. They had all been Texas Rangers for years, but Jake broke the law. So Gus and Call had to make the choice; throw away their lifelong conviction of upholding the law, or do the right thing and help their friend. The law was their religion. It was summed up when Gus told their friend Jake, as they were hanging him, “You know how it works, Jake. You ride with the outlaw, you die with the outlaw. Sorry, you crossed the line.” And they hung their friend. Apparently Gus and Call missed the same question I did on the test/survey we had earlier in this course on friendship, because all three of us thought the right answer was to hang him. But the movie, with all it’s western charm, made us root for Gus and Call and their friendship. Even though it is an unhealthy model of friendship. Their conviction to upholding the law above their friendship was as strong as Augustine’s conviction of religion and friendship (Vernon, p. 126).
As I said, Gus and Call were friends, and Texas Rangers together. I thought that Soren Kierkegaard (Graveyard, gotta love that name) was spot on. First off, he admitted to writing to make life difficult for others, so he immediately gets my attention. His opinion that there can only be friendship between two, and never three, fits well into Lonesome Dove (Vernon, p. 130). Clara Allen, Gus’s lifelong romantic interest supports this when she told Gus’s best friend Call, “And I’ll tell you another thing: I’m sorry you and Gus McCrae ever met. All you two done was ruin one another, not to mention those close to you. Another reason I didn’t marry him was because I didn’t want to fight you for him every day of my life.” It feels like a line one of Graveyard’s relatives could have written.
Gus and Call are so different, yet in many ways the same self. Nobody else can understand how they could hang their friend, but for the two of them, there wasn’t even a choice.
As to our responsibility in terms of challenging and questioning mainstream notions of friendship, tread carefully. When it has to do with raising our children, we can only take our best shot. It’s an easy call to say we don’t want them to really believe that George Costanza is the role model for what a friend should be. But the other side of the coin is that the greatest thinkers in history still can’t give us a single set of rules.
References:
Vernon, M. (2010). The Meaning of Friendship. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1: Friends at Work
McMurtry, Larry. (1985). Lonesome Dove: A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN (Links to an external site.) 0-671-50420-7
Main stream media in today’s day and age is simply about ratings; that is to say that they will do what they need to in order to get their ratings up. This includes creating a cast of characters who are presented as having a deep and loving friendship toward one another. Although this often makes for good television it is not a realistic representation of how friendship really works in reality. As I sit here and rack my brain on what example to use, I don’t watch a lot of television and when I do it is definitely not a sitcom, the one that comes to mind the most is the show Friends. (As I am sure many, if not all of the class has watched or watches this show.) In the sitcom Friends, there are six friends that are close friends; indeed, four of them live across from each other. The problem with this show’s representation of friendship is that is it un-realistic and false; their friendships are too perfect. The show doesn’t have an episode where they have a falling out with another friends, even all there are some serious betrayals of the friendship in other episodes. The friendship presented in the show are completely selfless, and according to Kant, Augustine, Aristotle, and even Thomas admits that there is always an element of self-loving in friendships. Kant states, that a friendship solely based on the other person’s interest would ultimately undermine their own happiness. (Vernon, 2010) Furthermore, the same can be said if a person puts their self interest above their friends. The way in which Kant finds a balance for this is that a person can put aside their self interest by knowing that their friends will take care of them instead. As Vernon states this does not really give a solution to how friendship have an element of self-interest involved in them. I would have to agree, humans are not perfect beings, and I think the best way to challenge the notion of a selfless friendship is to understand that each person has their own desires and that people need to trust the moral foundation that the friendship is built upon. Trust and accept one other for who they are, and not let the notion of a ‘perfect, selfless’ friendship overshadow the reality of friendship.
Vernon, M. (2010). The Meaning Friendship. New York : Palgrave Macmillian.
Mr. R is a 48-year-old Hispanic man who has worked the past 10 years as a warehouse worker. He is 5’6″, weighs 175 pounds, and has a waist circumference of 38″. At his last visit at your office, his blood pressure was 140/60 mm Hg. Prior to the visit, he had fasting blood work done, and his primary care provider plans to review the results with him today. The pertinent diagnostic results are as follows: a fasting plasma glucose level of 137 mg/dL, an HDL level of 27 mg/dL, LDL level of 247 mg/dL, a serum triglyceride level of 210 mg/dL. Use the following prompts as guidelines while performing and writing your case study:
Pathology: Introduction and Identification
Begin each case study by introducing the scenario/specific themes so that any reader would know what this case study is about. From there, start answering prompts above.
Pathology: Explanation and Plan of Care
Follow the rubric. You need to develop a plan of care for the patient. What education or care would you provide? Provide more than 1 example
Make a table for plan for Pt care
Plan for the Patient Care
Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Patients Outcome
Interventions
Rationale
Evaluation of the outcome
Response to Questions
Explore issues ideas and concerns as it relates to this patient. Integrate your own thought processes into your responses.
(Adequately address prompts above in the case study, and explore issues, ideas, or concerns)
Patient-Care Technologies
Follow the rubric. Explain the role of patient care technologies in caring for this patient. What might assist this patient? Provide different Examples(i.e might be a patient portal, tele-medicine, etc.)
Incorporation of Resources
Multiple resources best to support claims
Articulation of Response (APA/Mechanics)
The “soul friendships” can be difficult to cultivate. As it states in the chapter, they can take time to develop, but usually there is some sort of commonality between the two people in which the friendship can develop into one of the soul. The example in the chapter in which Mark Vernon uses for this is between Montaigne and La Boetie. Montaigne is said to state that individuals that are capable of soul friendship are rare and thus the soul friendship even rarer. He goes on to say that they are a force of destiny. However, Mark Vernon points out that the friendship in which Montaigne and La Boetie formed was based off of timing and the period in which the lived. Both had similar, and dangerous points of view for the time, so when the met their friendship already had a foundation to built upon. This is an important aspect for the development of a friendship of the soul because without some form of commonality in where mutual respect is given the friendship cannot develop into something deeper. The author also uses Emerson and Fuller as an example, even all Emerson uses the “phrase divine friendship.” When they firs met Emerson did not initially take a liking to her, however he soon had a great respect for her because of her mind. This then laid a common ground and mutual respect was able to form and then deepen into a friendship of the soul. I think it is important for friends of the soul to have a foundation of mutual respect, and by having this they are less inclined to be upset or the friendship failing when the other person is completely honest with them. In fact, that should be something that is welcomed, because they respect each other to such a degree that it goes beyond petty indifferences. I can say that I have one such friend, I may not call our friendship a “soul friendship” but it is close. I respect him and he respects me and we have always been able to be honest with each other. It is a friendship where, although there is still and element of self-loving, we can see past our differences and in a way that makes the friendship more meaningful. The reason I say this is that I can count on him to real me back in when I am being a little stubborn, or when I cannot see the truth of a matter because I am blinded by some emotion. The key to is to be honest and respectful and to understand that difference of opinions is what makes the friendship more than just someone I can be around and be polite to.
Vernon, M. (2010). The Meaning Friendship. New York : Palgrave Macmillian.
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