Developing Social and Ethical Awareness and Responsibility for Success at University

This report discusses the importance of social and ethical awareness and responsibility in achieving success at university. It explores how a workshop can help in developing these skills and the benefits of doing so.

PREPARING FOR
SUCCESS AT
UNIVERSITY: SELF
DEVELOPMENT AND
RESPONSIBILITY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Social awareness is the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others. It
is the ability to understand social and ethical norms for behaviour and to recognize family,
school and community resources and supports. Social responsibility is an ethical theory in
which individuals who are accountable for meeting their civic duty and their actions are also
responsible for benefits the whole society. This report will define how social and ethical
awareness and responsibilities have been developed through the workshop.
MAIN BODY
The project workshop was the medium which helped in developing and enhancing
knowledge regarding the social and ethical awareness and responsibility. Ethical
responsibility is the ability which is used to recognize, interpret and act upon multiple
principles and values according to the standards within selected domain. Social responsibility
is ethical framework which brings benefits to the overall community (Aruguete, 2017q). In
simpler terms, ethical responsibility is the duty where an individual follows a morally correct
path.
This workshop helped me in understanding that ethical awareness is the eagerness and
ability to decide moral dilemmas and situations. Ethical awareness is essential in workplace
as this helps individuals in focusing on performing their jobs without performing any
unethical activity or practice. This workshop helped in developing ethical awareness through
identifying an understanding the code of conduct of the organization and focusing on
following all guidelines through which benefits can be availed at the workplace. This
workshop helped in enhancing awareness related to ethical responsibilities which needs to be
fulfilled for making better living standards. In order to be ethical, it is essential to take
ownership of own actions and must act consistently with relevant laws and regulations.
This workshop helped in understanding the value of social awareness which is
reflected as the major component of emotional intelligence. This allows in understanding the
feelings of a person and helps in having different perspective on a situation. However, social
awareness is the ability to consider perspective of others who are belongs to different
backgrounds and cultures (Đurišić and Bunijevac, 2017). In order to develop social
responsibility, green practices must be adopted, and management must focus on creating
workplace health and safety programs through which they can meet their responsibility

towards the community. By reducing energy consumption, avoiding wastage of resources,
and keeping the surroundings clean, this can be helpful in meeting the social responsibility.in
order to improve social awareness, an individual or an organization must pay attention and
value active listening and observe the tone and body language of speaker (Garibay, 2018). As
listening and observing are the main components of social awareness, it can be seen that these
factors are the major services which are helpful in meeting social responsibility.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that social and ethical responsibility is the
responsibility of an individual which encourages people to meet all ethical standards and
follow the ethical code of conduct through which they can offer benefits to the society.
Ethical standards are the norms which defines morally correct code of conduct which should
be followed in order to avoid unethical practices. Social awareness is the first step to
personality development or self-development.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Aruguete, M. S., 2017. Recognizing challenges and predicting success in first-generation
university students. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research. 18(2).
Đurišić, M. and Bunijevac, M., 2017. Parental involvement as a important factor for
successful education. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal. 7(3). pp.137-153.
Garibay, J. C., 2018. Beyond traditional measures of STEM success: Long-term predictors of
social agency and conducting research for social change. Research in Higher
Education. 59(3). pp.349-381.