{"id":1723,"date":"2014-05-12T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1723"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:53","slug":"using-fairness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/using-fairness\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fairness is treating people as equal and doing so in ways that, within that culture, are seen by everyone to be \u201cfair.\u201d Fairness is an interesting challenge when working in different cultures in that local understandings of fairness differ. Every society has clear notions of what is fair and unfair. Every society has rules and norms that everyone understands as fair (and unfair). Essentially, people feel it is fair when those who \u201cdeserve\u201d things get them, and those who do \u201cnot deserve\u201d them do not get them.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs a behavior, fairness comes from an attitude of respect for local priorities and an eagerness to learn from people\u2014from many people at many levels\u2014what the rules of the game are for them, in that context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Using Fairness<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself how a six-year-old would see the situation. Better yet, ask a six-year-old. Children are very attuned to notions of fairness and often vocal about violations of the norms they expect. Adults stop vocalizing their discontent as much, but do not stop feeling outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Put yourself in their shoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/organizations-and-fairness\/\" title=\"Organizations and Fairness\">Organizations and Fairness<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/transparency\/\" title=\"Transparency\">Transparency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"Patterns of Behavior and Mindsets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/patterns-of-behavior-and-mindsets\/\">Patterns of Behavior and Mindsets<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Using the RAFT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/using-the-raft\/\">Using the RAFT<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The Connecting Mindset\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/connecting-mindset\/\">The Connecting Mindset<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The Dividing Mindset\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/dividing-mindset\/\">The Dividing Mindset<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Three Spheres of Behavior\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/three-spheres-of-behavior\/\">Three Spheres of Behavior<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Messages through the RAFT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/the-raft\/\">Messages through the RAFT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairness is treating people as equal and doing so in ways that, within that culture, are seen by everyone to be \u201cfair.\u201d Fairness is an interesting challenge when working in different cultures in that local understandings of fairness differ. Every society has clear notions of what is fair and unfair. Every society has rules and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":11024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1723","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1723\/revisions\/2914"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}