On 4 Apr 98 at 7:55, Ben Compton wrote:
> Robert Bacal asks, in response to Mike Lee, the following questions:
>
> "How does their use encourage individuals to improve and learn?
> How does their use impede learning and improvement?
> How does their use affect an organization as a whole?"
> These three questions presuppose an answer to the precursor: Who is
>responsible for increasing an individuals competence?
I don't see it that way.Note the special way of phrasing the questions
that does not reference at all, WHO does what, only if a particular
process is useful or not.
The question: Is it useful to fertilize the cornfield is a very different
one than Who should fertilize the cornfield or Is it morally right to
fertilize a cornfield.
The Farmer has to grow it!
I think these questions are straight-forward and so simple as to be
obvious ones to ask. I am sure if people want to make an ideological or
moral issue about every small action in the workplace that't there choice.
I'm kinda glad they don't farm <grin>.
Personally, I would rather work at improving workplace life for everyone.
Ideological and moral arguments really lead us to the kind of exchange
below.
>> How does that belief move us along somewhere useful?"
>
> Do you want to work in a moral or an immoral environment?
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