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Rotary
Australia
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Rotary
International
Rotary
Australia
Rotary
International is an organization of service clubs
known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world.
It is a secular organization open to all persons
regardless of race, color or creed. There are
more than 32,000 clubs and over 1.2 million members
world-wide. The members of Rotary Clubs are known
as Rotarians. The stated purpose of the organization
is to bring together business and professional
leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage
high ethical standards in all vocations, and help
build goodwill and peace in the world. Members
usually meet weekly for breakfast, lunch or dinner,
which is a social event as well as an opportunity
to organize work on their service goals.
Rotary's best-known motto is "Service above
Self", and its secondary motto is "They
profit most who serve best"
Philosophy
The
objective of Rotary is to encourage and foster
the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise
and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity
for service;
High ethical standards in business and professions,
the recognition of the worthiness of all useful
occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's
occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
The application of the ideal of service in each
Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
The advancement of international understanding,
goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship
of business and professional persons united in
the ideal of service.
This objective is further set against the "Rotarian
four-way test", used to see if a planned
action is compatible with the Rotarian spirit.
The test was developed by Rotarian and entrepreneur
Herbert J. Taylor during the Great Depression
as a set of guidelines for restoring faltering
businesses and was adopted as the standard of
ethics by Rotary in 1942. It is still seen as
a standard for ethics in business management:
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build good will and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concerned? (Credit:
Wikipedia)
Well
done to Kaye
Gordon to your fantastic contribution to Rotary
Public
congratulations to Rotary Australia
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