Reflection On Ethics

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After studying Teams, Ethics and Comparative Advantage as a course for my master’s degree, I benefited from numerous things I was taught during the period of this course and was able to refresh my memory on some concepts I had learnt about in my earlier degrees. There have being various university courses related to ethics I came across during my higher education but this course involved advanced interaction level with other students which helped me overcome one of the hurdles; voicing my opinions and viewpoints. Since majority of this course rounded around interactions with others, it also allowed me to enhance my team skills.
However, the biggest hurdle has been time management for me. I have always been a procrastinator and completing assignments in time has always been a challenge for me. I didn’t set realistic goals when it came to my assignments. I have still not found any cure for this …show more content…

Apart from all this our skills development workshop on ‘Giving voice to values’ allowed us to analyze our group mates’ perspectives in a particular situation and respect their opinions, this knowledge also helped us to put voice our opinions in a respectful manner within the group. This would definitely aid me with my career ahead as been able to stay at the top of every situation and been diplomatic with your colleagues when required is an extremely valuable asset.

The highlight of the course for me would be the role play activity: “Land Far Far Away…”. During this short activity the entire class was divided into two different cultures and were asked to follow a given set of instructions, to use a certain language and communicate among each other. Also travel across to a “Land far far away” and understand their culture and try to fit

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