IKEA and his founder Mr. Kamprad.

Wealth

He is one of the 17th richest people in the world.

Personality

He has fought against dyslexia and illness and still is charismatic and friendly.

Lifestyle

He ist best known for his modest lifestyle, for example he still washes plastic cups to recycle them.

Leadership style

He expresses the feelings of togetherness physically.His leadership style is informal and possess a lack of hierarchy. Kamprad hates short term decissions.

Termination gratuity

Is it ethical for president Verzetnisch to claim termination gratuity?

The litigation between Mr. Verzetnisch and the trade union is the headline of every known newspaper in Austria and I am very interested at the results.
But I don’t answer the question because I am working in a company who belongs in former times the trade union. A further point is that the blog is online and so readable for everyone who as access to the World Wide Web. And if someone of my company finds my opinion about this topic, I can be sure that the blog and I will be the gossip number one of my company. Therefore, I hope you can understand that I don’t write down my opinions.

Ethical Orientation Questionnaire

Which is worse?

• hurting someone's feelings by telling the truth
• telling a lie and protecting their feelings
  

Comment:
I think it depends on the situation and how good you know the person. For the moment I don't have any clear answer.

Which is the worse mistake?

• to make exceptions too freely
• to apply rules too rididly
  

Comment:
For me the second point is worse because I don't like rules.

Which is it worse to be?

• unmerciful
• unfair
  

Comment:
Both points of the numeration are very very bad for me and this is the reson why I don't make a decision.

Which is worse?

• stealing something valuable from someone for no good reason
• breaking a promise to a friend for no good reason
  

Comment:
It is very hard for me do make a decision but after careful consideration I take point number one. Further I believe that a good friend will forgive me if I make this mistake.

Which is better to be?

• just and fair
• sympathetic and feeling
  

Comment:
When I was young the first point was very important for me but now I believe the second one is better.

Which is worse?

• not helping someone in trouble
• being unfair to someone by playing favourites
  

Comment:
From the moral point of few I think the first one is the worse one.

In making a decision you rely more on

• hard facts
• personal feelings and intuition
  

Comment:
I always believe more in personal feelings and intuition. Because the hard facts are done by people and they could also do a mistake.

Your boss orders you to do something that will hurt someone. If you carry out the order, have you actually done anything wrong?

• Yes
• No
  

Comment:
Yes it is totally wrong to hurt someone. And till this day I cannot understand that someone can do that. But the history and the daily notices show us that it happens often.

Which is more important in determining whether an action is right or wrong?

• whether anyone actually gets hurt
• whether a rule, law, commandment, or moral principle is broken
  

Comment:
For me it is totally clearly to hurt someone is wrong. Do save the life and the health of other people is the first duty of us.

First english lesson after summer break

Hallo to all!


This is my first posting after a long time and after my very short holiday. I spent my holiday in Spain on the Costa Calida. The place where I lived the two and a half weeks is called La Manga del Mar Menor. It's very nice there, because there are two seas, on is called the Mediterranean sea and the other one is called Mar Menor. I went there with the plane. I flew from Vienna over Hannover to Alicante. On the airport I rented a car and went hundred kilometer along the cost to La Manga.

During the two and a half week I made a lot of short trips through the province Murcia. I also went fishing, but I caught only two small fish. The holidays past very quickly and so I am now back in Vienna.

• vocabularies from the unit 11

This are my results and translations:

accountant --> Buchhalter
car sales execuitve -- > Autoverkäufer
civil servant --> Beamter
estate agent --> Immobilienhändler
thrustworthy --> vertrauenswürdig, zuverlässig
a slush fund --> Schmiergeldkasse,…
insider trading --> Insider-Geschäft
whistleblower --> Skandalaufdecker

a bribe

fraud --> Betrug; Schwindel;…
law-abiding --> gesetzestreu
industrial espionage --> Wirtschaftsspion
a fraudster --> Betrüger
a bonus --> Prämie
secrecy --> Geheimnisvoll; Geheimhaltung
a cover up --> Verschleierung; Vertuschung
compensation --> Abfindung, Abgeltung
disclosure -->Offenlegung;Angabepflicht; Freigabe,…
a con artist --> Trickbetrüger
a commission -->Vermittlungsgebühr; Kommision,…
integrity --> Anstand; Integrität
controversial --> strittig; umstritten
responsibility --> Haftung, Pflicht, Zuständigkeit
corruption --> Korruption
regulation --> Regelung
transparency --> Transparenz
peer pressure --> Gruppenzwang
threats --> Drohungen
standard of living

court assigned lawyer --> gerichtlich zugewiesener Anwalt
swept under the carpet --> etwas unter den Teppich kehren

starting as an apprentice --> beginnen als Lehrling

litigation --> to be involved in a court case
to sue for money --> Geld von jemanden einklagen

Reflexion 26/05/2007

Today Julia teached us English. She was really very exerted to teach us English.

Roland made a presentation about the "IF-Clauses".
It was a interesting presentation and I enjoyed it very.
The presentation was very informativ and had a touch of a cabaret.

I learned following rules, if I want to use "If-Clauses":

Type 1: Used when expected outcome is very likely

• if + simple present + .... will ....

Type 2: Used when outcome is less likely or imaginary

• if + simple past + .... would + infinitive ....

After the presentation we made a littel test about "If-Clauses".

Cheers

Toni