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調查訪問了32間中學的523名中四至中六學生,發現有63.8%人認為生活多與錢有關;56%人認為道德水平下降;39%人認為「忠忠直直,終需乞食」;31.8%認為錢可買到快樂;18.9%人認為「只要唔係傷天害理,任何搵錢方法合法與否都可以用」。
資料來源︰http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/art_main.php?iss_id=20110516&sec_id=6996647&art_id=50014200
獲悉這項調查後,筆者實在有少許吃驚,特別係報導中談及的「忠忠直直,終需乞食」
何為「忠忠直直」呢?(相信無需再多解釋甚麼是終需乞食吧?筆者相信這是生活中所能賺到的金錢未能夠滿足個人生活的基本需要,例如衣、食、住、行,最終需要向人搖尾乞憐,為求一兩餐溫飽)我估係︰對待僱主,無需要講求Loyalty,即係忠誠,僱主(泛指你的直屬上師、薪酬待遇、工作時數等等)對你好就繼續做,對你差就炒佢魷魚。這麼Loyal,那般忠誠,沒有人會欣賞,甚致如果你從來都唔計較其他人的目光時,你會指出Loyal不能換取金錢。這是我對「忠忠直直」的表面理解。
「忠忠直直」的個人演繹︰Loyalty也許是公司做錯事或一直做錯事的檔箭牌,這是僱主一直奢求的東西,以為Loyalty會無中生有。Loyal的人會默然接受公司的所犯的過錯,例如管理層做錯決定導致超時工作,公司沒有體恤下屬為其打江山的辛勞,老闆沒有適當加人工等等。沒有Loyalty或者100%相信「忠忠直直,終須乞食」的僱員不能而且不會接受公司所作的惡行,盡管這是一廂情願的惡行,例如員工為著沒有三小時用膳時間而感到憤怒。他們會放棄繼續為公司貢獻,放棄向公司進諫(相信進諫的下場會死得更慘或者進諫後根本沒有下場),最後會辭職。
公司做錯事實在正常,因為公司的方向或做法正是決策者的決定,所有人的任何行為都會有機會犯錯,只有正在睡覺的人一定做對事。對於做錯事的人或公司,我們可以有不同反應,有人會選擇放棄的態度,愛理不理;有人會默默承受,因為百忍成金,總會有出頭的一日;有人會積極面對,遇有不恰當的情境會抵抗,將不利自己的局面變成利己的;有人會分析當前局勢,了解事件的來龍去脈及其背後的目的,提出相方都有利的解決方案,有需要的時候會折衷但堅持自己的底線。我並非鄙視第一至三類人而去站於人性道德的高地去表揚積極主動而又體恤他人的一群,因為鄙視第一至三類人已經令你自己變成自己鄙視的人,因為鄙視會被理解成放棄他們,不屑為伍,亦是一個消極的做法。
對於一班沒有Loyalty的人,或者是「消費主義」為主導的人,請體諒,接納他們,再想想你自己可以怎樣扭轉局面,成為大贏家呢?
多謝 Ray 的協助,借出一本名叫 "Learning to plan and planning to learn" 的書籍,小弟不材,實難參透筒中道理(因為英文字太深的關係)。然而,其中有一個 Chapter 叫 "The requirement of embracing errors",唔錯唔錯!
Background (extracted from the book "Learning to plan and Planning to learn" by Donald Michael
In our society, we presume that an error made by a member of an organization is the consequence of miscalculation, incompetence, bad luck, stupidity, or impotence in the face of social challenge.
...or that if it (error) did occur, it was unimportant... or that if it was important, it was someone else's fault (not the organization).
We don't want to believe that our leaders are error-prone.
Leaders an members of organizations try to avoid acknowledging error, not only because it helps them sustain a view of themselves as people in control, but also because it elicits the support of members of the relevant environment, who belonging to the same tradition, evaluate persons and organizations in tthe same way.
Instead they (member becoming part of an error-embracing, future-responsive social planning) become part of the experiment, part of the error-embracing societal learning structure. This kind of participation denies them the comforts of ignorance and the satisfaction of blaming others for their exposure to turbulence and uncertainty.
WHAT
error-embracing ---> social planning ---> societal learning system
[Social Planning is the process of investigating and responding to the needs and aspirations of the people who live or work in a community] http://www.rwbsocialplanners.com.au/spt2006.htm (week 1 lecture)
[Societal Learning as "Facilitated social change based on collective learning processes, democratic participation and empowerment"] http://portals.wi.wur.nl/msp/?page=1198
WHY (extracted from "In Search of Missing Elephant" by Donald Michael)
Embracing error as a positive virtue is a requirement for effective long-range social planning because all such planning, if it is to be humane and responsive to reality, must be flexible with regard to revaluation of goals and priorities and the means for realizing them. Planning must include an explicit moral obligation to learn from what goes wrong. Such an approach, which assumes that the future is highly uncertain, runs contrary to the deep-lying optimism referred to earlier. It also runs contrary to the pragmatic definition that one can always rectify a situation and that “too little and too late” is not really a plausible outcome.
HOW (to be continued...)