The personal ethics code I created to sustain great business ethics

1. PERSONAL ETHICS CODE
ROBERT FRISCO

2. PERSONAL VALUES LIST
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1. Great Health
2. Family
3. Food
4. Shelter
5. Money
6. Car
7. Education
8. Friends
9. Cell Phone
10. Nintendo Wii

3. WHY THESE ETHICS ARE IMPORTANT
GREAT HEALTH
• Great Health- Is the first part of living. I would not be
in a good mood if I was sick, and sickness could
lead to death or living life different. Good Health
also means I am thankful to have a normal body
like two arms, legs and mind. Health is a key to
living, and I cant function without it. No one would
be in the right place or in a good mood without
great health.

4. FAMILY
• Family- I don’t know where I would be without my
parents, grandparents, and uncles. I have came
along way with them, they have raised me, showed
me right and wrong and still helping me live,
supplying what I need, helping me get through
college, and putting a roof over my head and
helping me live. I don’t know where I would be
without caring for someone or the other way
around.

5. FOOD
• Food- One of the things that supply good health is
food. I couldn’t afford eating les that 2-3 meals a
day and snack time. I cant focus on an empty
stomach. I cant focus in class or assignment and
sometimes, I cant even socialize without eating
beforehand. Food is a necessity.

6. HOUSE
• House- Another thing next to food is shelter. I need
to have a place to live because being homeless or
living in a tent would be very uncomfortable in
living. A place to live with bedrooms, bathrooms,
kitchen, electricity and a basement would be a
nice way of living and a house or apartment is
something that I need.

7. MONEY
• Cold Hard Cash- To spend on food, bills, needs and
pleasures, money is the ticket to life. Nothing is free
in this world, and you need money to supply our
needs and wants. Money is used to pay bills, food
and what we need to keep healthy and have a
good living.

8. CAR
• Vehicle- It is very hard to walk around, so I need to
get from my house, to school, to work, and to
where I need to go with my car or reliable
transportation, to get me where I want to go. It
would be very hard to travel without a car.

9. EDUCATION
• Education- To get a good job in Communications or
work in a TV or radio station, I need to have a
bachelors or Master’s degree in communications
and probably have experience coursework. I
making my way through that now, the job world is
competitive and having an education would
provide that.

10. FRIENDS OR ACQUAINTANCES
• Friends or Acquaintances- It is great to hang out
with people and get to know them. It is also great
to share something interesting or talk about
something cool that comes into mind. Having
friends would provide that and it is good to be there
when someone needs a helping hand and the
other way around.
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11. CELL PHONE
• Cell Phone- It is hard to keep in contact with family
and friends without having a cell phone. This way I
could keep contact with people in emergencies,
and fun. It is a value and I need it to call my folks at
home and tell them what and how I am doing and
what is going on in the near future. My phone is not
that good, its only a tracfone however, I am still
thankful to have it.

12. NINTENDO WII
• Nintendo Wii- For quite a few years now I am a fan
of video games, the Nintendo consoles is the only
ones that have the super Mario games. I enjoy
playing these games with my favorite characters
whether it is adventure, racing, party, sports
olympics, these games are a blast and they will be
around for a long time.

13. PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
• I am at my best when I am healthy, energized and ready to learn
• I will try to avoid times when I have no food in my stomach
• I would like to find employment where I could use Adobe Audition to record
Audio.
• I enjoy watching NHL hockey
• I will find opportunities to use my talents such as comedy, talking sports,
playing Nintendo Wii and record using adobe audition.
• If I can do anything to set my mind to. I will make a day long radio show
covering sports, music, games and appropriate comedy to entertain people.
• My life’s journey is to be Pennsylvania’s best radio announcer.
• I will be a person if I get along with family and friends and share the good
times in the past
• My most important future contribution to others will be to be a great role
model and give good advice to the people that need me.

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I will stop procrastinating and start working on
Organization, Being a leader and not a follower, and using my time wisely
I will incorporate the following attributions
Strong, Funny, Confident
I will constantly renew myself by focusing on four dimensions of my life
Able to get in shape by exercising
Never to give up on an important task
Think things over before I do them
Live to the best of my ability

15. PERSONAL VISION
• In 5-10 years from now, I would use my Audio skills to
change the way we listen to radio.

16. CREDO
The first thing I do believe is that our lives are short and they are a gift
given to us. Since life is a gift, I think to myself “what am I going to do in
my life, what is my future going to be and how am I going to
accomplish my goals.” I believe that trying several new things and not
get frustrated, so that I would try each job, and know what I am best
at, so I would be able to do these things in my life.
I also believe in setting goals for myself, because I cant get the job
completed without setting goals. I think about what I need to do, and I
figure out a step by step process to accomplish my duty. One of my
main goals is to graduate college. I think about what I wanted to do,
like work hard in high school, apply, and choose the classes that I need
to graduate. I also have goals to pass all my classes. That is to attend all
classes, complete all assignments, and (what I am worst at) study hard
so I could pass my tests. That way I would be able to pass my classes
and move on within my college career. Setting goals for myself helped
me with my life, and that is how I get through.

17. CREDO CONTINUED
• Another aspect I believe in is honesty. If I want to keep
someone and have them trust me, that I would always have
to be honest, that way when someone I know needs a favor
and what's a helping hand, that way I would be there for
them. Honesty leads to trustworthiness, and that is a good way
to be a helping hand and gain respect of others.
• I also believe in commitment, if I commit to something, than I
do it, like I commit to my assignments, that way I could do
them, so I could get decent grades for classes. I commit to my
work, like when I am assign a job, I put my problems behind
me and I do my job until it is done. If I am in a relationship I am
committed to that girl. I would do what she want, to be the
man that I am, so another thing I believe in is commitment.
• I also believe in God.

18. CREDO CONTINUED
• One thing I am passionate about is fantasy football. Having
my own team, choosing the right players, trading the right
players, and it passes the time. I am also passionate about
other sports like Ice Hockey, Baseball, and College Football. I
am also passionate about most Nintendo video games
including Mario Games. When I am home, I play games like
Super Mario World, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games,
Mario Baseball and others. Sometimes I play NCAA Football 13
on the XBOX 360 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare, but I cant
live without the Mario Games. I am also passionate about my
job at the radio station, when my co-host and I do a radio
show, I have fun during school and I enhance my experiences
for the future, so I am passionate about having my own show.

19. CREDO CONTINUED
• I am passionate about going to school, because
this is the place where I get my education, this is
where I try for my degree which Is a way for my for
follow my goals. I am also passionate of making
digital media videos, I enjoyed those assignments
where I give tours in the towns and edit them using
adobe premiere so, those are some of my passions.

20. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Goa1 1: Get a good grade in Business Ethics
1. Show up and participate in 28 classes
2. Do all 13 homework assignments
3. Complete 13 sections in personal ethics code.
Goal 2: Graduate in Fall 2014
1. Finish my communications/digital media with 122
credits
• 2. Spend 3-5 hours a week doing assignments
• 3. Complete 29 required classes
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Goal 3: Apply for Graduate school
1. Complete a 120 credit bachelors degree
2. Create a great portfolio with 8 different sections
3. Look at 15 different schools
4. Apply to 5 different schools
Goal 4: Win my fantasy football league
1. Draft 15 good players
2. Start the best 8 players a week
3. Drop 1 different player a week that doesn't fit the criteria.
Goal 5: Record a 30 minute radio-show Capstone project
1. Write 10 minutes per week with script writing
2. Record 5 minutes a week after writing a script
3. Taken the last 5 days editing in the end

22. DECISION MAKING MODEL
• The model I appreciate are the seven step paths of
a better decision
• 1. Stop and think
• 2. Clarify Goals
• 3. Determine Facts
• 4. Develop Facts
• 5. Consider Consequences
• 6. Choose
• 7. Monitor and Modify
• Works Cited: "Making Ethical Decisions:
Introduction." Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2013.
Web. 30 Oct. 2013.

23. DECISION MAKING MODEL
• The situation that I am facing today and in the near future is
going to graduate school. First, I am going to stop and think
for the pros and cons. One of the pros is that getting a masters
degree in my field would make a difference, and would help
me go far in life, but the cons are financial costs, and how I
struggle at in class test taking, which I am hoping to
overcome.
• Next is to Clarify Goals. I should set goals for myself. I should
have a goals to apply to as many schools in my field, set up
appointments on visiting to school, and I should have a goal
to make the best portfolio that I could make, because
showing what I did in the past would attract many college for
my acceptance.

24. DECISION MAKING MODEL
• I should determine the facts of what would happen If I go to
graduate school. More jobs would be open to me, I would
have better experience of what to do, so I would last there till
my mid 60’s till around 2058 when I retire, but other facts is that
tuition is expensive. If I need 36 credits to get my masters. I
would need around $24000 unless there are scholarships and
financial aid involved, which would help.
• Next is to develop the facts make it happen, try for
scholarships so I could afford to go for my degree and
financial aid will help. I should choose options of where I want
to go, determining the pros and cons of that specific place
and try to make the right choice.

25. DECISION MAKING MODEL
• Next is to Consider Consequences of going to grad
school, I would take more time going to school, and
It would cost more money, but If I could succeed, it
would help in the long run.
• Next is choose, but I haven't made my choice yet, I
would wait until after this year is over at least.
• Finally I have to Monitor and Modify- which means If
I make this choice, I modify it by doing what I can
to obtain this degree and to stick with my decision.

26. WHY IS CRITICAL THINKING USEFUL
• I think critical thinking is useful because these exercises lead to skills
that help you made better decisions. It is a way to help solve
problems and it stretches your mind to be able to go through
challenges and do better a tests, because critical thinking exercises
help your ability to think and do well. Critical thinking is useful by
performing exercises that help improve the brain, for instance like
crossword puzzles or word finds that have the ability to stretch the
brain and perform great tasks. In education like school, critical
thinking is important because it helps apply understanding, and it
helps to do better in assignments and answer discussions.
• In my opinion, critical thinking exercises could wake you up in the
morning and refresh in the mind, so you could enter the day strong
and ready to learn.

27. HOW WILL I IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING?
• To start, I could improve my critical thinking by completing
exercises like word finds. I always enjoyed word finds when I
was young, and I learned that completing them, I could
stretch my mind and have the ability to learn new things.
Another way I could improve critical thinking is to find a
problem in your life and solve it everyday. For instance, if you
have a problem, like helping my mother around the house.
You ask her what she needs help with and solve that problem.
Dealing with your emotions is also important. If something is
bother me, I take a deep breathe, and think of a bright side
that could help, and that could help deal with emotions.

28. HOW TO IMPROVE CONTINUE
• The commitment I could make to improve critical thinking is to
keep in touch with my emotions, figure out what my problems
are, rethink what to do when I solve these problems, figure out
the positives and solve these problems. That way I could figure
out what I need to do, and that way I could improve critical
thinking.
• I have two exercises, but they are separate from this
PowerPoint. Word find and crossword puzzle.

29. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY DEFINITION
• For my definition of personal responsibility, I would know
how my behavior would effect other people, whether
they know me or not. We are accountable for what we
do, whether we are able to control them or not because
the people around us, known or strangers are impacted
for what we do.
• Some examples are that you need to support you family,
and you do that by feeding your wife and children, and
paying necessary bills . Also if you have a duty to give
back to the community, then it is another personal
responsibility. Not blaming others for your actions is
another example

30. WHY IS PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IMPORTANT
• Being a responsible person, and doing what you
are told to do, make you someone looked up to by
kids, and even adults. People would know that you
are a responsible person and they would depend
on you for their deeds. When I was married, and if
you are responsible and could take care of myself,
a wife would depend on me. Personal responsibility
would make me the man, just like the strong guys
on the Chevy Silverado Commercials.

31. STATE FOR PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
In the world today, usually people that are trusted if
something goes wrong, and if it they are responsible
for it, then if they do what they can to fix that
problem, then they would be a personally responsible
person. A example is when a student has an
assignment due for a class, it is their responsibility to
have that assignment done when it is do. If they do
that commitment, then they would be personally
responsible.

32. STATE FOR PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
• In the world today, another way to be personally
responsible is giving back to the community. If you
start a fundraiser, like the raffle tickets for
“Operation Defend our freedom”. Then whatever
half that is sold goes to a lucky buyer and the other
half gives back to the soldiers. Donating goods and
services to the community also shares as personal
responsibility.

33. AM I CONSIDERED TO BE PERSONALLY
RESPONSIBLE.
• In a way yes because when I behave in front of
other people, they would notice what type of
person that I am. On the positive side, when I am
told to do something, I would know that it is my
respnibility to complete that task, like school
assignments, I would know I would have to get
those done, otherwise I would suffer the
consequences like my grade for instance.
Sometimes, I also volunteer my time for community
service. When I say I am going to do something, I do
it unless something comes up. Because of those
aspects, in those ways I consider myself to be
personally responsible.

34. HOW WILL I BECOME A ETHICAL
LEADER
• If I was a leader, I would learn from this quote
• “Good leadership is about the company’s success,
not my own” This quote is by Anne Mulcahy. If I lead
something and it involved other people. I would
think of their needs first, what they want and how
will it make sense, before I do what I think. Which
brings me to another quote
• “Be yourself, who else is better qualified” by Frank J.
Giblin. which means If I have confidence in myself,
and do what is best to my ability, to become a
better leader.

35. HOW WILL I BECOME A ETHICAL
LEADER
• Another good quote that helps is
• “What we do today, right now will have an effect
for tomorrow” by Alexandra Stoddard.
• Which mean it matters how you lead today, it
matter what you do to be a leader, because it will
be affected in the future. What you do, is in your
actions and if I do the right thing with my group, I
would be a good ethical leader

36. WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT ETHICAL
LEADERSHIP
• I should care more about being an ethical leader
because I would have people to look up to me. It
would a sign that I would care for others. If I put
myself behind, and think of needs of others, that
would make a better leader, and it is important
because caring for others is important and doing it
that way would show to be a good leader. I should
care about ethical leadership, because it shows
other that I care.

37. HOW ARE ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP
TOGETHER.
• Ethics means what to do to make the right choices,
If you make a decision and you figure it out it is the
right thing to do, then it is ethical. Leadership is like
when you are a president of a club, that means you
lead the club to do what is best. Both ethics and
leadership should co-exist all the time. Being a
leader is one thing, but making the right choices
and showing some ethics into it would make
leadership co-exist. Being a good leader is one
thing, but making the right decisions and having
people look up to you would show ethical
leadership.

38. WHAT WILL I DO TO INCREASE
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD?
• The first thing to do is show respect in other people. If I was in a
group, the leader of the group deserves support. Another way
is to bring life in an appropriate conversation. If I was talking
about something logical, I would bring life to the conversation,
depending that I know what I am talking about. I would
advice people to look at their beliefs, behaviors, and values
and incorporate to talk about them. Working with others to
convince their goals would open up their minds to convince
them to be ethical leaders. I would show people the right
things to do, to make ethical choices in their ways of doing
things. That way ethical leader would increase to be a well
known aspect.

39. HOW MIGHT WORKING WITH OTHERS
BUILD UPON CHANCES OF SUCCESS?
• I would think, that if I work with an ethical leader, it is
a good way to become an ethical leader,
because they know what they are doing, and I
could learn from the ethical choices they make and
they way they put things into perspective, and I
would learn to pass on to other people, so that they
would know what they are doing. Working with
other helps be learn to be an ethical leader and for
other people, that way they would become an
ethical leader.

40. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY
• It is when someone in a business is a charge of a
task, it is their responsibility to complete it. When
someone is in charge of as store, it is the
owner/manager’s social responsibility to make sure
the store runs on the right track and to make sure
everything is running properly. Usually owners, and
leaders have social responsibility because they work
in the environment, and they need to have their
customers, and workers happy and in the right
place.

41. WHAT DO I DO TO BECOME SOCIALLY
RESPONSIBLE.
• As a socially responsible person, as president of the TwentyOne plus student club, I help the advisor gather events for
people to do. I organize flyers and hang them around
campus, I create posters for past events to tell what we are all
about. I also am responsible for some of the fundraisers, like for
“Operation Defend our freedom, I sold raffle tickets to help our
troops and our club’s fundraiser. The T.O.P.S club and the raffle
tickets have made $114 for the troops. Also as a socially
responsible person, I did an internship at GEM 104, and I
helped by doing the tasks the people in charge instructed me
to do, so I have been socially responsible in the past, and
hopefully in the future to.

42. HOW COULD I BE SOCIALLY
RESPONSIBLE IN THE FUTURE?
• When I get a job whether it is for work study or in the
future after I get my degree, I would do my duties
and what I can to help to specific company. I
would do the tasks assigned to me because it is my
responsibility to complete them. If I was a leader in
something in the future, I would do what I can to be
socially responsible, assign tasks and complete
them to help that specific or mysterious company.

43. HOW COULD I MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN MY OWN LIFE
AND THE LIVES OF OTHER
• One thing I might help with is “Make a wish
foundation.” On council on clubs, we were told to
tell our club(service and T.O.P.S club) to think of
something to do to raise money. We could do a
fundraiser whether it another 50-50 raffle, candle
sale, spaghetti dinner etc. I could be able to take
part of that to make a difference to the children for
make a wish, and I could feel the same way,
because it would change my life because I have
done something with it.

44. WHY IS DIVERSITY IMPORTANT TODAY
FOR INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS?
Diversity changes the ways people think of social
responsibility and how embracing diversity, could
lead to the reason why it is important. Diversity means
to except every member no matter of the race,
gender, size, and ability to do things. It is important to
get people in a job as much as we can so he could.
We have to learn to get along with other ethnic
groups because it makes the world go round. There
cant be discrimination for us to be a successful
culture. Everyone is created equal no matter what.
As a society, we need to contribute a society as a
whole.

45. HOW WILL YOU INCLUDE THIS
IMPORTANT ISSUE INTO YOUR LIFE?
• As a recruiter of the service club or T.O.P.S, I could
embrace diversity by recruiting members just
because they want to join no matter of race,
ethnicity, and other things, if they want to join they
are more than welcome to be in, it is their choice. I
would say, as well as my advisor, that race, gender,
year, age it doesn't matter. Our clubs are open to
the public of Keystone College.

46. WHY IS SUSTAINABILITY IMPORTANT FOR
CITIZENS TODAY?
• Sustainability is like recycling, it is a way you keep your
ecosystem, it is maintaining and keeping health in the planet.
It also mean cleaning up after people outdoors and indoors. It
is important for people today, including business because
when you are in a workplace or when you are on the job. It is
important for other people in the business and people who
see you around, to know that you are clean. It is important for
people to clean after litter, so the town and state that they
live in would be known as a clean place, and other people
who are thinking to move and that town or place would
increase their chances on moving there and live in a nice
atmosphere.

47. HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE TO ENSURING
SUSTAINABILITY OF THE WORLD’S RESOURCES FOR
FUTURE GENERATIONS?
• A way that I would help the worlds resources, is to
pick up after myself and other trash that I see laying
around, I should pick it up. I should also save paper,
and only print what I have to, and stop wasting
paper, because killing paper is like killing a tree and
that is not good for the ecosystem. Another thing
that I do from time after time, is Adopt A highway. It
is when me and a group of other people go along
the highways of Keystone College and clean up
Garage, put them into a bag, and wait for the
PennDot people to pick up out bags.

48. FUTURE GENERATIONS CONTINUED
• For future generations, as I am a counselor at camp, I could
teach my group of kids to pick up after themselves. That way,
after they have their breakfast, snacks or bring stuff on their
own, I will tell them that picking up after yourselves, and throw
the garbage away and that way, when kids and myself clean
at camp, the camp would look nice and clean and the
sustainability would be better for the camp. If the kids
remember our counselor’s teaching, when the get to be
adults, they would also appreciate cleaning up after
themselves and teach their kids that, and sustainability will
help in future generations.

49. REFLECTIVE ESSAY, SLIDE 1 OF 2
• I had an enjoyable experience completing this personal ethics
code. I have learned my values, and why having what I have
means so much, and makes me you know, me. I learned in my
personal mission statement who I am, what I enjoy and how I
could use other things to get my jobs done. For my personal
vision, I could see what I be in the future, and for my Credo, I
have everything I believe in, my values and what I am
passionate about. I have goals that I need to accomplish in
the future, and hopefully, I could get them done. I have future
dilemma, which could be solved in my decision making
process. It taught me ethical leadership, and how to be more
of a responsible person, how people are made equal as an
individual and how the world could be better after cleaning
and sustainability.

50. REFLECTIVE ESSAY SLIDE 2 OF 2
• How I just learned about myself, I would help me for the rest of
my life. When I am able to do things, like the problems that I
face in the future, I could read this ethics code and my goals
to show what I need to do, I could read my Credo and my
Values to help me be more confident in my show, to show
what I believe and like, and think of those things when I fulfill
my goals. For my personal and social responsibility, I could
read those and figure out what I am responsible for, and how I
could get active and show what I could do in world. This
ethics code will help me in my personal life, because I know
more about myself and I could have confidence and game
for what I am able to do, during school and after my time
here. This code is rewarding, and it helps me become more
ethical as I enter the work force and the other stages of my
life.