Psychographic growth

During the final selection, all students are graded under different parameters -based on their psychographic profile. Unitedworld team believes that, given a chance & if handled properly, learning habits, leadership traits, team management skills, presentation skills can be dramatically improved. Apart from academic excellence, Unitedworld also assists students to growth through these initiatives.

There are specialists deployed at Unitedworld for this purpose.  Dr. Shreemantee Chowdhury, A professional psychiatrist with long exposure and experience in UK, is leading this unique initiative. Dr. Chowdhury writes... 

The ultimate goal of managers is providing service with continuous value addition. Service, like any other aspect of life, is guided by its own ethical scaffolding. No Service can run its show without any human input. It is beyond doubt, that almost always people are the most valuable resource in a Service System. On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine a Service Delivery not involving any human being at all. So for the best value addition, caring for the recipients & providers is an integral part of good management training. But to have the best of this training one needs to understand what care ethics mean and its implications & principles. Care ethics not only improve service but also help to develop personality, understanding oneself & others better in terms of behaviour, emotion, intellectual pursuit, blooming into better humanity & more caring person as a whole. Ethics are the guiding paths for moral decisions & establish the code of client - provider relationship. Commonsense does help but that cannot substitute a trained mind in different aspects of ethical analysis which is more sensitive and alert about the finer nuances involved in providing Service & enhancing professionalism.

Ethics of care is a contemporary variant of virtue theory that draws psychological constructs, especially role of emotion in moral deliberation. It gives importance to character and interpersonal relationship over rules. So decision making is grounded in the core values of humankinds ability to extend care and service to those in needs. Decision making is no more impersonal but empathy - based in a real situation involving human beings on both sides, clients & providers.

Care ethics closely related to Aristotle’s virtuous characteristics of love, compassion, honesty and patience. The basis of the theory is the recognition of:

1. The interdependence of all individuals for achieving their interests

2. The belief that those particularly vulnerable to our choices and their outcomes deserve extra consideration to be measured according to
i) the level of their vulnerability to one's choices
ii) the level of their affectedness by one's choices and no one else’s

3. The necessity of attending to the contextual details of the situation in order to safeguard and promote the actual specific interests of those involved

One should cultivate one’s natural capacity to care for others and ourselves. An example of how care ethics might work in business is provided by the case of the Malden Mills textile factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Malden Mills was a highly successful producer of specialty fabrics. But the Malden Mills textile factory was destroyed in a fire. The owner, Aaron Feuerstien, could have taken the insurance money and rebuilt his factory in a third world country where the labor was much cheaper. This would have been entirely legal, and might have been the most profitable thing to do. Perhaps it could perhaps have been given a defense on the basis of rights (as understood by libertarianism) and maybe even utilitarianism. It would have been difficult to use justice arguments to criticize him if he had picked up and left. On the impartial view of justice, Latin American workers would have just as much right to Feuerstein's jobs as the workers with whom he had build a successful company in the U.S.

But Aaron Feuerstein decided to stand by his workers. He decided to rebuild the plant in Lawrence and paid the workers full wages with full medical benefits while the factory was being reconstructed.

Feuerstein seems to have approached this choice along the line advocated by Care Ethics, for which the concrete relationships which we have with other persons is the most important moral fact. The task of ethics is to respond to particular individuals with whom we have valuable and close relationships. Compassion, concern, love, friendship, and kindness are owed in proportion to the closeness and value of these relationships.

We can express this as a principle in the following way:

We should preserve and nurture the concrete relations which we have with specific persons; exercise special care for those with whom we are concretely related, attending to their own needs, values, etc. and responding positively to these needs.

How much did A contribute to the work of the firm this year (in comparison to B's contribution)? (The answer determines how big a bonus A should receive [in relation to B]?) Care ethics tries to be sensitive to the indefinitely complex system of relationships that build up in a community over time, or even within a family over time.  

In our Institute we believe in Care Ethics and facilitate, train & nurture care ethics. Care Ethics will make you a different individual in all aspect of life for sure.