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Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding Perspectives

Explore rights and responsibilities from legal, social, environmental, and ethical perspectives. Investigate human rights declarations, review examples of employer-employee responsibilities, and engage in decision-making exercises.

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Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding Perspectives

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  1. Learning Intentions At the end of this unit I will: • Know about rights and responsibilities • Understand rights and responsibilities from different perspectives

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  3. BEFORE WE BEGIN #04AFEF Do this exercise individually or in pairs. Tick whether you agree or disagree with the statements. Revisit it after the unit to see if you have changed your mind about any of them.

  4. Business in Action/Presentation Idea! Invite a speaker from Citizens Information or Youth Connect to speak to your business studies class. Wonderful Worthwhile Websites www.careersportal.ie www.youthconnect.ie 5

  5. Rights and Responsibilities A responsibility is something you have a duty to do. It is something that affects not only our lives but the lives of others. Rights are what every human being is entitled to, no matter who they are or what part of the world they’re from. • Rights include: • To live in a fair and just society • Right to food • Right to clothing • Right to education • Right to freedom of speech 6

  6. Be a Researcher Investigate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration was drawn up by the United Nations in 1948 and it was a milestone in human rights. Find out what it says, how it came about and which countries have signed up to it.

  7. Rights and Responsibilities • Our responsibilities include following the rules at home, at school, and in the community • To understand rights and responsibilities, you need to look at them from a variety of different perspectives • Legal perspective – Irish and European laws • Social perspective – family, community and cultural background • Environmental perspective – our effect on the planet • Ethical perspective – what is morally right or wrong 8

  8. Time to think ‘Students should be part of the decision-making process in schools.’ Write reasons for and against this motion.

  9. Legal Perspective • Employers and employees have to follow laws • For example: • Laws governing the wage an employee receives • Legal right for an employee to receive a wage slip • Health and safety legislation • Right to be treated with respect and dignity at work • Employment, promotion and dismissal must be conducted fairly and without discrimination 10

  10. Be a Researcher • Find out what the minimum wage is in Ireland today. • What might happen if the minimum wage were increased? • Would it affect the government’s budget?

  11. Social Perspective • Bullying, violence, destroying other’s property, and stealing do not respect the rights of others • An organisation has a social responsibility towards its employees The Body Shop is very successful because of its stance on human and animal rights. • An employer should: • Pay decent wages • Offer good working conditions • Consumers also want an organisation to behave responsibly 12

  12. Environmental Perspective • We have a responsibility to: • Share the planet with other living things • Make our world a cleaner and safer place for us all to live • We should try to: • ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ • Use green energy – wind, solar, sea energy • Reduce carbon emissions • Reduce pollution 13

  13. Ethical Perspective • Ethics refers to principles, morals, values and standards Ethics are the moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour. • Being legal does not necessarily make something ethical • We must consider the rights of all human beings – not just our own rights • Culture impacts on ethics 14

  14. Employer/Employee: Rights and Responsibilities Review the examples of rights and responsibilities of employers and employees in the table on page 242. 15

  15. WORKING WITH OTHERS #04AFEF Working in pairs or small groups, discuss the above rights and responsibilities of an employee. We are often very aware of our rights, but we must not forget our responsibilities and obligations. Can you come up with some more rights and responsibilities? Page 243

  16. CHECKING IN • Explain rights and responsibilities. • Explain ethical responsibilities. • Compare social responsibilities with environmental responsibilities. • Rewrite the table on page 242, giving specific rights and responsibilities of a supermarket (as employer) and a checkout assistant (as employee).

  17. Decision-Making • When making decisions enterprises should go through a process to ensure they are making the best choices • They should: Read the examples of Häagen-Dazs and Ulster Bank Group – two companies that have shown corporate social responsibility (CSR). • Know all the details • Find out all the options • Ask the following questions for each option: • Is it legal? Is it ethical? Does it benefit all? • Follow the legal and mostethical option 18

  18. CHECKING IN • Read the statements in the table on page 244. Which statements do you agree or disagree with? • Copy the Venn diagram into your copy and use it to compare and contrast the rights of the employer and the employee.

  19. Time to think ‘When an enterprise acts in a socially responsible way, it can increase its profits.’ Write reasons for and against this motion.

  20. 2.4 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Which of the following is something you have a • duty to do? Quick Quiz Ethics Responsibilities Rights

  21. 2.4 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Which of the following is something you have a • duty to do? Quick Quiz Ethics Responsibilities Rights

  22. 2.4 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Which of the following is something you have a • duty to do? Quick Quiz Ethics Responsibilities Rights

  23. 2.4 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Which of the following is something you have a • duty to do? Quick Quiz Ethics Laws Responsibilities Rights

  24. 2.4 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Ethics are the moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour. Quick Quiz: Review • A responsibility is something that you have a duty to do. • Rights are what every human being is entitled to, no matter who they are or what part of the world they are from.

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  26. Legal responsibility • Employees’ responsibilities • Employees’ rights • Responsibility • Employers’ responsibilities • Rights • Employers’ rights • Social responsibility • Ethical responsibility • Ethics • Green energy

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