Course Description

Title: Human Values and Professional Ethics Code: 18B19HS491

L-T-P scheme: 2-0-0 Credit: 0

Prerequisite: None

Objective:

1. To help the students appreciate the relationship between 'values' and 'skills' to ensure sustained
happiness and prosperity, which are the core aspirations of all human beings.
2. To develop the moral values (integrity, respect for persons, justice, compassion, beneficence
and responsibility) and behavior amongst professionals.
3. To provide students a values-based approach to ethical professionalism and learn a method of
thinking about and dealing with ethical issues in the workplace.

Learning Outcomes:

Course Outcome Description

Outline what a profession is and how it differs from an occupation including
CO1
basic concepts and philosophies of ethics.
CO2
Develop an understanding of professional code of ethics.
Identify ethical issues in different professions viz. HR, finance, marketing,
CO3
information technology, intellectual property.
CO4 Apply logic to understand why harmony, integrity and ethics are important for
individuals, family, society, corporations and nature.
Deploy and be proficient in basic values as propagated in various scriptures and
CO5 tradition viz Geeta, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upanishads, Vedas, Bible and
Quran.
Get familiar with basic requisites of global ethics and challenges associated in
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present scenario.

Course Content:

Unit-1: Introduction to Values: Value Education: need, basic guidelines, content and
process; Values and their importance; Types of Human Values; Self exploration; Natural
acceptance and Experiential Validation- as the mechanism for self-exploration; Happiness and
Prosperity; Theories of Ethics.

Unit-2: Harmony: Basic understanding of harmony in self, family, society, profession and
nature; Needs of Self(‘I’) and ‘Body’; values in human-human relationship; Difference
between intention and competence; Difference between respect and differentiation; Harmony
in the Nature; Ethical Human Conduct.
 Unit-3: Introduction to Professional Ethics: Definition of Profession; Difference between
profession and occupation; Need for separate code of conduct for professionals. Code of
Ethics: Engineers; Basic values for medical and legal Professionals.

Unit-4: Ethics impact in Business: Business Ethics; Ethics and marketing, Ethics in finance,
Ethics and Human Resource, Ethics and Information Technology, Ethics and Intellectual
property rights, Ethics and social responsibility.

Unit-5: Indian Ethos and Global ethics: Indian Value System and Values; Values and
Ethics; Teaching from scriptures and tradition (Geeta, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upanishads,
Vedas, Bible and Quran); Requisites for Ethics Globally; Present challenges in global ethics.

Teaching Methodology:

This course is introduced to help students transition from a simple professional to a values-
driven professional. Initially discussing about value education importance, students will
gradually develop understanding and importance of self-exploration. This process of self-
exploration takes the form of a dialogue between the teacher and the students to begin with,
and then to continue within the student leading to continuous self-evolution. The course is a
mix of classroom teaching (PPTs; MS office; PDFs) which includes case studies, quiz and
interactive sessions.

Evaluation Scheme:

Exams Marks Coverage

Test-1 15 Marks Based on Unit-1
Based on Unit-2 & Unit-3 and around 30% from
Test-2 25 Marks
coverage of Test-1
Based on Unit-4 to Unit-5 and around 30% from
Test-3 35 Marks
coverage of Test-2
Assignment 10 Marks
Tutorials 5 Marks
Quiz 5 Marks
Attendance 5 Marks
Total 100 Marks

Learning Resources:

Lecture slides on Human values and Professional ethics (will be added from time to time):
Digital copy will be available on the JUET server.

Text Book:

[1] R.R Gaur, R Sangal, G P Bagaria, A foundation course in Human Values and
professional Ethics, Excel books, New Delhi, 2010, ISBN 978-8-174-46781-2
Reference Books/Material:

[1] “Managing for Value”, S.S. Iyer, New Age International Publishers, 3e, 2019.
[2] “Perspectives in Business Ethics”, Laura P Hartman, Abha Chatterjee, Tata McGraw Hill
Publishing Co. Ltd., 3e, 2014.
[3] “Business Ethics– Concepts and Cases”, Velasquez Manuel G., Prentice Hall India
Learning Private Limited, 6e, 2006.
[4] “Indian Ethos and Modern Management”, B L Bajpai, 2004, New Royal Book Co.,
Lucknow. Reprinted, 2008.
[5] “Morality and the Professional Life- Values at Work”, Brincat, Wike, Pearson
Publications, 1e, 1999

Web References:

[1] Value Education websites, http://uhv.ac.in, http://www.uptu.ac.in

[2] https://aktu.ac.in/hvpe/ResourceVideo.aspx
[3] https://aktu.ac.in/hvpe/ResourcePresentationEnglish.aspx