ethics. During the long hike upwards the Americans, met one group of the other climbers
that had come upon an Indian Holy man lying on the long path with no clothing on.
Stephen wanted to help the man back to the village; every group did only the bare
minimum and went on their merry way. Something occurred to him that had a powerful
impact on his thinking about corporate ethics. This situation happens to people everyday
in the corporate world. Someone see another person down or uses another person as a
stepping stone to move up the ladder. This type of behavior is used to get what they want
no matter how many people they hurts to reach their goals. How this group responded
should hold a lesson for all organizations no matter how defined.
What if the Holy man was the same nationally of any of the groups involved in the climb,
or a well dress man. How many would have actually help him out beyond what each
group did. We should always do what is morale and ethical, in every aspect of our life.
God gave his only begotten son for the world and this had to come to pass for our sins.
Jesus taught us to love one another as bothers and sisters. We must do unto others as
they do unto us. By helping others, not stepping on them or mistreating them is the right
way to go. By have compassion for down the right things and making an ethical decision
with morals could be rewarding in the end. Some point in our life we will all need a
break or a helping hand to get something we want in . My interest in this story is, that I
can relate to the experience of the mountain climbing in my career. The group that I was
in had a male soldier that went out drinking the night before and paid for it the next.
Instead of coming in first place we had to settle for fourth place. I and another soldier
went back and help the soldier to finish to the end with the rest of the group. Even
thought there was a reward for the first and second place team , we hade to all finish
before our time stop. He learn a lessen to do what he was told to do because it cause us
first place and it made us not able to go on pass that weekend. I did not like that the
people in this story was just thinking about finish and making it to the top on the
mountain to say that they have done it. If I was there I would have help the Holy man
and made sure that he had made it back to the village to get the right care. Everyday we
make choices all day long but we must make the right choices. The right choice was not
made in this story but just the minimum. People need to think about have important it is
to always help one another and other people that we may come in contact with. What
you do to others will come back to hunt you now or later in life. Having the feeling at the
end of the day knowing that you have done and made the right ethical decision is good.
The corporate world is a dog-eat-dog world and women/minorities are step on just to
reach the top. By the end of the story Stephen understood that his experience in the
mountains with the Holy man open his eyes. To make the right individual ethical
decision was a very important thing to him because it open his eyes what was happening
in the corporate job he had back in the United States.
