Judging - What is the difference between judging and criticizing? Do you think people confuse the two? Why? Which do you think is worse, judging or destructive criticism? Why?
Mohamed_hassan
This week's prompt asks us to differentiate between judging and criticising. I would define judging as pointing an accusing finger at a person without reliable information. Often, this information may end up false. Fairness and a fair hearing are required to confirm the validity of our perceptions about something or somebody. Judging somebody makes us biased and not constructive. It leaves loopholes in our process of conclusion. It also attacks the individual concerned rather than addressing the incident that occurred.
On the other hand, criticisms can be constructive or destructive. It is constructive when a sincere opinion about something or somebody is given without putting that person or thing in harm's way. In many forums today, constructive criticism is allowed, while destructive criticism is prohibited.
Constructive criticism is intended to correct, facilitate learning, and promote improvement; destructive criticism is meant to shame, bring someone down, and cause serious pain to the individual.
People often confuse the two because they relate. They both attack the personality rather than address and admonish. The due process of verifying what was heard before conclusions was not followed. They tend to be in a rush to draw conclusions and end up condemning /judging the individual.
In our factory, two employees stole items from the store and were caught by the security personnel on duty. When we started investigating the matter, the employees indicted the plant manager and some other people.
My team and I took our time. Already, some of the information about the indictment leaked, and people were already judging the plant manager, saying all sorts of things. The management was also pressuring us to act quickly and conclude the investigation. But we wrote and requested more time to do a thorough job. It took us about two weeks and some days, but there were damning revelations and findings.
Later, the plant manager, not completely free from the allegations, 98% of the allegations were planned defamation by some employees to tarnish his image. I was excited that we didn’t conclude early and, as such, ended up making the right decision.
After the investigation, the plant manager received constructive criticism of his involvement in some of the activities that were revealed to us. He wholeheartedly accepted the feedback and rescinded the resignation he tendered as the investigation commenced. The culprits were relieved. Assuming the feedback was destructive, he wouldn’t have rescinded his letter of resignation.
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We concluded by giving everyone involved a fair hearing and allowing time to prove the statements. Doing so, no one was wrongly judged, and there was no destructive criticism even to the culprits, to enable them to learn from their error and continue their career elsewhere.
All their severance package were fully paid while we parted ways peacefully.
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I think people find it more easier to judge others unfairly than taking their time to find out the facts which is needed to give a constructive criticism.
Your team handles the issue of stealing at your place of work the best way you should.
Exactly, if and only if we can borrow a lift from your write-up earlier on "golfen rule"
Imagine a world where evwrybody respects each others choices and boundries without neccessarily hating or judging the person.
It would be a beautiful world to thrive and live in.
Thank you @funshee for stopping by and erring your opinion.
My pleasure anytime dear ❣️😊
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Judging makes things worse while constructive criticism salvages situations. It takes wisdom to criticize constructively just like you and your team did and it remedied the situation, rather than judge.
Unfortunately, a lot of people get involved in judging others , usually because of one sided information. If only we'll all learn to hear from both sides and correct instead of judging.
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Exactly, I agree with you. This is one thing that have guided me through my purpose driven life.
I always allow time and fair hearing before I give my advice.
Thank you mentor @Ivyann for this thoughtful response.
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I appreciate 🙏
Honestly that's the right way to go about it.
It's my pleasure!
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You accidentally published a duplicate of your comment there. 🤔🤯 You should delete it when you have the time (and before you forget after reading this comment)! 🤗😅 !HOPE !INDEED !WEIRD !HUG
Kai, thank you soo much.
Most times, it is caused by network.
It did happen on my scifimultiverse community comment I made.
Network kept rotaing and returning with error messages meanwhile, it kept publishing those messages like 5 of them
I was shocked when I realised they were all published.
What if there was no option to delete.
It would have been an issue for me .
Hehe.
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A Hive account can be used to publish a comment once every block (where each block has a 3-second gap) on the blockchain, while the blockchain requires at least a 100-block gap (or 5 minutes) between any two posts from the same Hive account. 🤔🤓
The comment or post must have no comments under it or total votes above zero before getting deleted !INDEED. 🧘♂️🤯😅 !LOLZ
This is lecturing. I am also learning.
But please what number of posts am I allowed to make in my blog for a day. Not comments but posts.