Thursday, July 16, 2015

A634.7.4RB_SeabournBeau

How does you organization portray its values?

The company I currently work for has a couple of different ways of portraying its values to different audiences. First, the way employees interpret the values or get insight to them is through the organizations employee manual and through annual, monthly and weekly training. Through those programs and training we are given guidance as to what is expected of us, how we can improve in weak areas and where our projections could take us if we are successful. Secondly, the company does a great job of sharing public information with the general public. Through outreach programs and more recently, the media, they make sure that the public knows what services we provide and how efficient we are at doing that.  In recent years, the control tower contract program has gotten a lot of attention due to the government shutdown and the government budget cuts. That exposure has allowed our company too really showcase how valuable and effective we are for the flying public.

Behaviors portrayed positively by our leader’s…example

Like I mentioned above, our company and the contract company in general has got a lot of attention in the last three years. It is a hard task to get the public to understand the level of service air traffic controllers provide, especially in the private sector. Without the support from our leaders, we would not have got the exposure we did that allowed the public to see our successes. In addition to that, there were some key players in the government that really looked out for us and got the public to understand why funding us and allowing us to keep our jobs is important.

Someone was unethical in the workplace…..example


When I was in the Navy, there was a person I worked with that did some pretty unethical things. It was the policy of the base I was at to not allow younger sailors to journey to far away from the base on weekends/days off. This prevented accountability issues and general issues from arising. One weekend, this person decided to drive from our base to their home town that was about 8 hours away. While they were there, they set their car on fire (tried to make it look like it was stolen and it wasn’t them) and then took a bus back to base. While at work, this person often talked about the situation and how they needed rides, special attention due to the situation, and special consideration for training. They basically made it seem like the world ended and they needed all of the attention. This created huge problems at the base because everyone was trying to accommodate this person and their situation. After a couple of weeks, the local police department from their hometown called and said they had arrested this person and the base was to come and get him. As you can imagine a lot of things went wrong. The only thing this person knew how to do as say that they were in tha Navy and serving their country and so on and on. That is totally unethical and their actions, like the video talked about, started with some minor issues and slid into the illegal realm pretty quick. Needless to say, the person was kicked out of the Navy and banned from air traffic control for life.

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