Nancy Bonds
BUSN 467-501
January 22, 2008
Core Value Exercise
Over my lifetime, there have been countless instances where my values and morals have had to come into play. You never know your own values until they are tested. The workplace is a common environment for dishonesty to come through, especially in the business world. This past semester I had a situation at work that truly made me see what my core values in life and work are. Even though I was not faced with an ethical dilemma, I realized how important hard work and honesty really is.
For the past 1 ½ years I have worked through the Boys & Girl Club of the Brazos Valley for an after school program at a middle school. Last August, the program received a new site coordinator for the program. Even though I had been passed up for the job, I looked forward to the new coordinator’s entrance into the program. My personal responsibility within the program is to plan and teach for a cooking class. My overall responsibilities include, with the help of other workers, to watch 20-50 middle school students, help them with homework, distribute snacks, and break them up into activity groups. All of the planning and organizing of the entire program is up to the site coordinator at that location. As the semester began, I saw my new boss had no clue as to what he was doing. I started off just giving suggestions from my past year of experience, which was not given much consideration at first. As the weeks went by, I noticed many things going wrong. Activities were not planned out, ingredients for my cooking class were not correct, workers were not getting paid, and overall the program was not as ...