Principle Of Potentiality And Its Concepts

Introduction

The principle of potentiality is an entity that is based on the pillars of potential self-conscious and rationality. The principle is driven by the virtue that humans have the potential of a strong right to life. The principle revolves around the properties that satisfy a creature with the right to life. A creature with the right can easily show the properties of this principle whereby it helps in determining the ability of the creature to perform tasks. For instance, the principle was well elaborated by Aristotle. Aristotle defined the principle in that possibilities are not the same. The principle mostly applies to organizations whereby the workers’ output is measured using the principle’s concepts. Therefore, the essay aims at analysing and explaining the principle of potentiality and the concepts that help in easy understanding of its content including its importance and shortcomings.

Importance of the Principle

The potentiality principle has been under constant debate. Some arguments have been argued to show that the principle is important for an organization’s success while others have rejected the principle arguing that it misinterprets the well-being of people. For instance, Aristotle illustrated both sides of the principle stating the importance of the principle and the shortcomings of the principle. Aristotle distinguishes stability in the principle thereby illustrating the two sides.

The principle has benefits to many organizations that make it important to be accepted by the people. The idea of the principle is the potential of a person to live. The potential of a person to live grant him or her right to life. Therefore, every human being has a right to life because he or she has a high potential to live. In addition, every potential person has the right to life that ought not to be taken from him. Consequently, the principle ends up showing value to human life. The principle insists that humans must be allowed to live for them to expose their full potential. . For instance, Aristotle has developed his principle to explain the importance of the potentiality principle in increasing the productivity of an organization. His principle was referred to as Aristotlelianism which explained the potential of individuals and the benefits of the potential to the organization.

The principle is also important in that it helps organizations to respect the persons it has employed because they are highly capable of improving the productivity of the organization.  Therefore, the organization has to protect its employees. The protection of the employees helps in improving the organization’s performance in issues of the output. The persons employed by the organization exploit their full potential by diligently serving the organization. As a result, the organization succeeds in the market. The success of the organization is also experienced by the employees themselves because they can feel that they are respected by the organization’s authority hence developing an attitude that they also own the organization. This success helps in boosting the principle’s involvement in the organization undertakings. In addition to the ego appraisal among the employees, the principle can consequently improve the employees’ standards of life by the increment in their salaries for their good work. In return, the persons employed in the organization are motivated to put more efforts into the organization Therefore, the principle also helps in uplifting of the persons.

The Understanding of the Principle and its Concepts

Understanding the principle of potentiality and its concepts is an important aspect of the principle. The principle is a complex aspect that ought to be simplified by its understanding. The principle is a symbolic representation of the human subject as having the potential of improving from who he or she is to be a better person. It is also a representation of the work as symbolic freeing up, mobilizing and liberalizing the inner qualities. The principle aims at converting the ideas behind it into the actual reality. The application of the principle in reality helps in the actualization of the potential of persons. For illustration, Aristotle used the principle to relate between potentiality and reality. He concluded that there is a very thin line between the two whereby potentiality leads to actuality. He also defined potentiality as being live in its actualization. Therefore, the practical application of the principle brings more understanding to the principle rather than in its ideological nature.

Furthermore, to understand the potential principle, knowledge of the pre-natal right to life is crucial in the potentiality of a genetic human being. A pre-natal life usually has the life engulfed in it whereby acknowledgment of the potential of it is a crucial for the principle. The pre-natal case and the post-natal cases in the potentiality principle ought to be understood as the same thing because post-natal life is highly dependent on the pre-natal life. The potentials, which are practically seen in the post-natal life of persons, are partial elements that pre-natal persons have. Therefore, clarity ought to be cultivated on the differences or the similarities between the two cases, pre-natal and post-natal, in order to understand the concepts in the potentiality principle.

The principle is usually ignored by many people because the potentials in the pre-natal person are not practically exposed. This explains why the life of a pre-natal person is not fully guaranteed. Instances of abortion undermine the potential of the pre-natal person because the right to life of the person is taken away. Misunderstandings of the potentials of the pre-natal life are proven by the protection that a post-natal life is granted. A post-natal human is granted rights that boost his or her right to life. For instance, the child is given medical privileges, education rights and special attendance that were never shown in the child’s pre-natal life. Therefore, the misunderstanding of the potentials of the pre-natal life undermines the potentials of the post-natal life whereby they are not given the required attention. Furthermore, post-natal and pre-natal lives are similar, and they ought to be guaranteed protection for their rights. Therefore, the potentiality principle ensures that the potentials in both the pre-natal and post natal lives are cultivated on from the pre-natal state.

The fact that the potentiality principle emphasizes more on the individuals’ potential than their wellbeing proves that rights to persons are to be granted according to their potentials. From the instance of the potential of pre-natal persons and post-natal persons, the principle insists that the potential of the prenatal life ought to be protected by granting the prenatal life the necessary rights. The special attendance, which the principle suggests should be granted to the prenatal life, is therefore dependent on the prenatal life potential. Therefore, a weakness in the principle in seen in the protection of the life of a human being on the potential basis rather than the protection of life as a basic act of respect for human rights. Moreover, the principle forces people to grant the right to life to the pre-natal and post-natal lives on the basis of their potential. Indeed, the principle insists that the right to life should be fully granted to foetuses on the pillar of the potentiality that they have hidden in them. This proves another reason to uphold the potentiality principle.

The potentiality principle is highly beneficial to the human resource department of many organizations. The principle is crucial to HRM on the basis of the future potential of the department in organizations. Because organizations are based on the workers ability to fully perform tasks as required, the principle acts as the driving principle of the HRM departments of many organizations. The principle, therefore, brings a notion of the organization of improving the potential of persons working in the organization. For example, the principle guides the potential of the persons motivating them to exploit their potentials. As a result, the exploited potentials act as beneficial pillars for the HRM department. It enhances workers to know that they are capable of performing involving tasks even though the tasks in the organization seem to be the complication. Moreover, because the principle helps in liberalization and mobilization of the working qualities, the HRM departments of many organizations can make sound improvements in the outputs of the workers. Therefore, through the liberation of work and the motivation of persons in the organization, the HRM departments can focus on future occurrences. The department concentrates on future employment as being hopeful, positive and mandatory for self-fulfilment imperative.

The integration of the potentiality principle in the HRM faces challenges. The main challenge of HRM potentiality principle is the dangers of ethos. For instance, using Georg Simmel’s concept of culture tragedy, HRM is one sided in its working principle. The one sided approach, which is in the HRM departments threatens the welfare of students morally. The student’s possibility of representing themselves as moral agents is not granted to them by the HRM departments. Therefore, they cannot express their negative ideas to the department using their individual personality. Consequently, the potentiality of the persons in the principle is reduced and even might never be protected. In addition, the persons feel threatened and not regarded as important to the organization hence not exploiting their potential. On the other hand, the life of the individuals is threatened because the principle states that the right to life of persons is dependent on the potentials of the persons. Therefore, the integration of the principle of the HRM departments will be threatened by the lack of ethos in the departments. For efficient potentiality principle integration into the HRM departments, the ethos’ dangers in the department must be eliminated.

Concepts of the Principle

The transition from ethics to ethos through the principle influence is a crucial concept for the principle. The shift from ethics to ethos in HRM departments is an elemental step under the influence of the potentiality principle. The principle affects the transition from the focus on the HRM system to construct the ethos ideals of an employee. The employees need to reflect the ethos personality for the principle to work out in the HRM department. The HRM department must be responsive to the ideal characters in the department to ensure that the ethical transition occurs. The ethical nature of the departments must be highly enabled to sustain the principle. Therefore, the dangers of ethos in the department should be sorted out first for the transition. For example, one of the dangers of ethics in the department is the involvement of the HRM parties in excessive politics. Politics in the department cause unethical practices to be favoured in the department. Therefore, the political aspect in the HRM departments affects ethical management in an organization. Ethical issues in the departments are shown through the responsive role of the department to the ideal characters. The role is set because the ethical issues around the ideal characters influence whether the character are quick thinkers, good talkers or they have a creative spark. Once the department appreciates the ideal characters’ ethical issues, the characters will improve their talking, thinking, and creative potentials. Therefore, the transition from ethics to ethos in the HRM departments will be highly influenced. As a result, the potentiality principle proves to be responsible for the transition from ethics to ethos in the HRM department of any organization.

Concepts of self-realization and self-perfection are also important in the potentiality principle. The principle enhances its relation with the concept because the principle is more considerate of individuals. For instance, the potentiality principle emphasizes on the current potential that an individual has to perform tasks. Therefore, the principle focuses on the issues of an individual in his or her abilities to perform tasks. The self-realization concept is met when the principle drives the individual to improve on his or her potential. An individual, at this point, can focus on the level that he or she is on the potential. Therefore, the individual rates him or herself and sets a target to reach in order to improve on his or her potential. In return, the individual can fully exploit his or her potential because the concept of self-realization acts as a motivator.

Shortcomings of the Principle

The potentiality principle also has shortcomings in its applications in reality. The shortcomings have been the basis of the argument for the critics to the principle. The principle is much more interested in individuals’ ability. The principle relates the individual’s ability to the potentials of the individual that can be exploited for the positive advancements of others. The relation created is one of the shortcomings of the principle. The principle insists that it is important to uphold person’s right to life because of his or her potential. This makes the principle to have a negative attitude towards the personality of human beings. Human beings are treated as tools by the principle whereby they have to exploit their potentials in order for them to live. This shortcoming has created a turbulent debate over the principle whereby critics have insisted the principle must not be applied in organizations until it respects the personality of persons.

The personality principle also has a shortcoming in the ethical dangers of personality. The excessive freedom, which is granted to the principle, ensures that the potentials of every person are improved. The principle does not take into consideration that type of potential it uplifts. Negative potentials are very much dangerous to the society because they result in unethical practices in an organization. For instance, the principle influences the spirit of abortion. Because an individuals need to improve on his or her potential, abortion as a negative personality is intensified. Therefore, the principle makes more rampant abortion cases to be evident. This is a shortcoming of the principle because it leads to unethical practices in the society.

The unethical dangers of the personality due to the potentiality principle are also explained by the Simmel’s concept of culture tragedy. Simmel explains that the principle increases the concept and moral exhortations in order to make the interpretation of the dangers in HRM more inherent. Therefore, the principle makes the HRM department to degrade personality through the ethical transitions. Persons under the potentiality principle feel threatened by the principle whereby one has to exploit his or her potential in order to be granted the right to life. Simmel insists that the principle overlooks the nature of ethics in the existence of people’s personality. Therefore, the people under the principle expose unethical personality dangers so as to free themselves from the principle. The unethical danger of personality acts as a main shortcoming of the principle whereby the shortcoming can easily lead to collapse of the principle.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the potentiality principle is important in the improvement of persons’ potential. It helps in the self-development of people through its concepts of self-realization and self-perfection. The concepts of the principle of potential are the pillars of the success of the principle in various sectors. Therefore, the principle is important for human development. The concept of self-perfection in the potentiality principle is actualized when the individual takes a step to improve his or her potentials after self-realization has been affected. Therefore, self-realization and self-perfected concepts are important in enhancing the potentiality principle. On the other hand, the shortcomings of the principle ought to be solved for the success of the principle.