Homework 1 from Clair

Homework 1 49482021 Clair Lin

1. Implicit

Racial issue has long been a difficult problem in the history. We cannot deny that we also have ethnocentrism in our mind though it is not obvious in Taiwan. The example that we often hear is the racial issue between white people and black people. It seems to have some improvement in these years, but there is still related news nowadays. Racial issue does have an effect on almost every aspect of our lives. The website "Project Implicit" is very impressing, especially the test. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is very interesting. I did the skin-tone IAT at first. The result of my test is "your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Dark Skin and Light Skin." It is glad to have this result, but I think this result is influenced by the environment we grow up. Most of us are not taught to have bias against people having different skin color from us. Lately, I have heard an instance about white man being taught to discriminate against colored races, and he was expelled from his family because he fell in love with an Asian. It impressed me very much, and it make me think if I also have such ethnocentrism or stereotyping against other people. It has no clear outcome, but I think I ever have such implicit beliefs; it is essential that every person has these beliefs in his or her mind, more or less. What we have to do is clearly stated in the textbook, and I think the three points are not only suitable for business, but also for our relationship with other people.

2. Ethical Choice

The ethical choice in this situation seems to be ethical dilemma. It has no clear illegality or wrong that the boss responded as if all the reports were written by him; thus, we have no sufficient reason to blame our boss. However, it does not mean what the boss did has no fault. The validity of our boss is in the gray area. Moreover, our status is the employee of our boss; for many reasons, it is not appropriate for us to directly tell him about the truth.

The first thing that we can do in this situation is to try to communicate with the boss. The purpose of our communication is to remind the boss of our working on the reports. This communication relates to the smooth of our job in the future. Thus, hint is better than direct talks. Almost every person likes polite and euphemistic talks; it is probable that our boss is the same. If we use bad tone talking with our boss, the outcome may be the losing of our job. We can try to remind our boss of our striving and importance: if we did not work out those logical-organization and clear-writing-style reports, our boss would not have the honor enjoying the compliments from the CEO. It is to emphasize our importance and meantime to remind the boss of the truth. It is not required that the result can be perfectly reached, but a sincere response from the boss is enough.