about the relationship of one entity to everyone with whom we come into contact (Browne 2004).As reputation is socially constructed, in that stakeholders' perceptions become their reality and that reality can positively or negatively affect an organisation's reputation, understanding and being responsive to internal and external stakeholders is critical to reputation management (Cwiak 2014). Rights From the western standpoint, rights is something all humans possess by simply being human. They are a demand for respect and an obligation to other humans to respect the dignity that comes with the individual. Most Americans are familiar with the idea of human rights and daily enjoy its benefits as seen in the Bill of Rights, outlining the most important rights that a citizen of a country must possess. However, a common misconception most Americans have is that the rest of the world values human rights as much as the United States does. On the contrary, using China as an example, it is often asserted that Western countries recognize many human rights related, for example, to political liberty, that have no great appeal in Asian countries. It is certainly true that governmental spokesmen in several Asian countries have not only disputed the relevance and cogency of universal human rights, they have frequently done this disputing in the name of values,” as a contrast with Western values. The claim is that in the system of “Asian Asian values, for example in the Confucian system, there is greater emphasis on order and discipline, and less on rights and freedoms (Sen 1998). Because of geographical and cultural disconnects such as the one between China and the United States, the United Nations developed a worldwide code defining human rights by chartering the Universal Declarations of Human Rights which declared human rights to be unalienable, whether they deserved them or not. It is important to note that the concept of an individual can pluralize into groups of individuals, and in
about the relationship of one entity to everyone with whom we come into contact (Browne 2004).As reputation is socially constructed, in that stakeholders' perceptions become their reality and that reality can positively or negatively affect an organisation's reputation, understanding and being responsive to internal and external stakeholders is critical to reputation management (Cwiak 2014). Rights From the western standpoint, rights is something all humans possess by simply being human. They are a demand for respect and an obligation to other humans to respect the dignity that comes with the individual. Most Americans are familiar with the idea of human rights and daily enjoy its benefits as seen in the Bill of Rights, outlining the most important rights that a citizen of a country must possess. However, a common misconception most Americans have is that the rest of the world values human rights as much as the United States does. On the contrary, using China as an example, it is often asserted that Western countries recognize many human rights related, for example, to political liberty, that have no great appeal in Asian countries. It is certainly true that governmental spokesmen in several Asian countries have not only disputed the relevance and cogency of universal human rights, they have frequently done this disputing in the name of “Asian values,” as a contrast with Western values. The claim is that in the system of Asian values, for example in the Confucian system, there is greater emphasis on order and discipline, and less on rights and freedoms (Sen 1998). Because of geographical and cultural disconnects such as the one between China and the United States, the United Nations developed a worldwide code defining human rights by chartering the Universal Declarations of Human Rights which declared human rights to be unalienable, whether they deserved them or not. It is important to note that the concept of an individual can pluralize into groups of individuals, and in
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