Analysis of an issue - Good vs Bad employee ?

Analysis of an issue

"The most important quality in an employee is not educational background or job proficiency; instead, the desire to be a part of a team separates a good employee from a bad employee."

A good employee is expected to have the right mix of education and interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills are as important as the educational qualifications. However, interpersonal should not be taken as a lone factor in determining if an employee is good or bad. The important quality of an employee is how he optimizes his available skill set to add value to his employer's business.
Every employee starts afresh at some point in their career. As they progress through their career, they learn through experience. This experience adds value and polish the skills of the employee. The success of every employee is measure on the value he adds to the business of his employer over his tenure. Being academically strong or having good interpersonal skills alone wont be sufficient to bring out the result. The employee should be dynamic, motivated and be alert to the changes. To have these qualities one should be adept in learning from one's past experience. Right mix of academic and vocational skills helps an employee to achieve it. The importance of a skill may differ from job to job. An employee of aero science or nuclear science will be expected to be more proficient in his academic than his interpersonal skills. May be marketing managers should be more adept with his interpersonal skills than his academic credentials.
The employee should be able to look inside himself to identify the qualities he has, accept his weakness and try to optimize his skill sets so that he could be more productive. This quality of learning from the past successes and mistakes would be an important quality that would help him to sustain throughout his career as a good employee.

Analysis of an Issue - Parent support vs child support.

Analysis of an Issue

"We shepherd our children into adulthood and later they shepherd us into old age."

A parent's obligation is to provide proper education, nourishment and protection for his child. However, a parent should never count on the reciprocation of the same from his child after his old age.
As a new born child, he is totally helpless by himself in this world. It neither has the brains not the muscles to venture out in this world and take care of himself. It is a moral obligation for a parent to provide adequate support to his child.
The parent plays a very important role in the development of the child. The child speaks his first words under the auspices of his parent. The child takes the parents as their role model in his early age. The child looks up to his parents for protection care and education. This initial impetus provided by parents helps the child to have better future. This care provided by the parent is pure and unadulterated. A parent would never take his care as a collateral so as to expect reciprocation of love and support from his child.
A parent should plan his future well ahead so that he may not have to depend on anyone for his support. A child has his own obligation to take care of his parents.However, there have been occasions where the child has failed to take care of his parent. A parent should try to be in a position to be able to cope up with his situation too. A person should understand that, as helpless the child is when it is born, a parent would also be in the same state due to senility and exhaustion. There may not be need of a monetary support, but moral support from his child would do lot of good for the parent in his old age and spend his time peacefully.

Analysis of an Issue - Personal diet

Analysis of an Issue

"Responsibility for eating healthy food belongs to each individual person, not to the government."


While it is true that regulating the food policy of its state belongs to the goverment, the responsibility of eating healthy food belongs to the individual person.
The onus is on the goverment to make its citizen aware of the proper and healthy eating habits. It can recommend the possible combination of nutrition and can promote them through ad awareness campaign. I believe that the responsibility of the goverment ends if it has spent adequate time, money and resource to promote and encourage healthy food habits. From then on, its up to the individual to choose his eating habits. Govermenet should not try to spoon feed to its citizens. If it does so, it would be infringing on their personal freedom of choice.
Having said that, there may be some people who would actually require guidance for proper eating habits. A few of them may include but not limited to orphans, new born babies, single mothers, prison inmates and metally disabled. For them, the goverment can very well take the mantle of providing proper guidance to food habits. But as a whole, its the responsibilty of an individual to take care of his diet.

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