THIS IS AN INTERESTING NEWS ARTICLE FROM MSNBC.COM.
Kind of makes me wonder if ethics are a overlooked lesson amongst Youth Workers.
If you thought the Bernie Madoffs, those guys from Enron and Worldcom, and the Rod Blagojeviches of the world would eventually dry up and blow away, a new poll says you'd better think otherwise. This survey would suggest they'll just be replaced with another generation of liars, cheaters and stealers.
A new national poll from Junior Achievement and Deloitte shows 80 percent of teenagers feel like they're prepared to make ethical business decisions once they're out in the real world. That same study shows 38 percent of those say you have to break the rules at school, if you want to have any chance at success.
And that group that says it's so ethical? Well, half of them say lying to parents is okay, and more than 60 percent say they have lied to their parents in the past year.
So what's it all mean?
David W. Miller, Ph.D., director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative and professor of business ethics at Princeton University, says "there is a troubling incongruence between the degree to which teens feel ethically prepared to enter the workforce, and the unethical behaviors in which they engage. The survey results do prompt concerns about teens’ future workplace behavior and forecast serious challenges to businesses around how they will need to prepare and train these future leaders."
So even in the 21st century, don't take any wooden nickels.
3 comments:
Great Post. If I may be bold...Here's the thing: Garbage in, garbage out.
We need look no further than our own homes and neighborhoods to find the root causes for this epidemic.
We have brought this on ourselves, especially we Generation X-ers. Instead of teaching our children to be responsible for their own actions, we, instead, taught them that it was someone else's responsibility.
Instead of lovingly establishing boundaries according to our natural instincts and faith, we regarded them as adults, having the capacity to make adult decisions, free from the consequences of their actions.
Instead of connecting them to other human beings, we connected them to cable and the internet.
Instead of allowing them to naturally discover their unique qualities and talents within the above mentioned boundaries, we told them they were good at everything and that they were entitled to everything because everyone else is too.
Instead of taking the time to answer the question, we told them to look it up on Google when they asked who Jesus is.
so, really, if they don't feel responsible for what they do, if they don't have any boundaries, if they aren't taught what happens when they do something to someone, if they don't know how to relate to people and if they think we aren't invested in their spiritual or moral development, then what reason do they have to be honest?
True, they make their own decisions, but so do we.
T. Michael Cart
Wow, man. You said a lot of truth. I remember Walt Meuller had mentioned in one of his books how the parents have joined forces with their kids to help them get their way every time. Back a couple of genreations ago, if you got in trouble at school, than it was your fault. Now, if you get in trouble at school, it has to be the teacher's fault. If parents hear that their kids did something stupid, than they automatically think their parenting skills are being questions. So they would rather think their kid was right because there is "no way their kid could have done that." They "raised them better than that."
You're right....it begins at home.
Parents need to be cautious in verifying teens about their behavior and activities with their peers. This would help them to take necessary actions if they are not in track. Parents need to gather most of the information on dealing with today's teens by taking part in teens discussion boards. Parenting troubled teens is a considerable tasks to today's parents.
http://www.troubledteensguide.com/parnetingquestions/Stealing-and-Lying/index.html
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