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Ethics is a systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. What is right is ethical and what is wrong is unethical. The word ethics coined from Latin word: Ethics Greek word: Ethikos Both represents, character.
Ethics is a systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. What is right is ethical and what is wrong is unethical. The word ethics coined from Latin word: Ethics Greek word: Ethikos Both represents, character.
Ethics is a systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. What is right is ethical and what is wrong is unethical. The word ethics coined from Latin word: Ethics Greek word: Ethikos Both represents, character.
welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which pleases him but treat as beneficial to him whatever pleases his subjects. Arthashastra Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics. Meaning: Systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.
Ethics is a all about what is right or wrong, fair or unfair, proper or improper.
What is right is ethical and what is wrong is unethical. Ethics is not a recent discovery.
The word Ethics coined from Latin word: Ethics Greek word: Ethikos Both represents, character, Definition: According to Oxford Dictionary, ethics is relating to morals; treating of moral questions; morally correct; honorable. Ethics refer to the code of conduct that guides an individual while dealing in a situation. It relates to the social rules that influence people to be honest in dealing with the other people. Character of Man Conduct of the Person Series of Actions Good or Bad, Right or Wrong, Moral or Immoral Decided BY Leads to Taken together considered as Moral Judgment By which we can judge again Morality and Ethics: Morality is a code of value to guide mans choice and actions. What is right / Wrong, good or evil. Morality evaluate actions on the basis of customs, expectations of society, and some beliefs. Same as ethical principles also give an idea about right or wrong. However, ethics gives code of conduct developed by proper testing to guide the human behavior. Ethics & Religion: Ethics gets idea from religion Through experiments it approves them as code of conduct. The development of ethics is dependent on the religious morality.
Ethics and Law: Law is a code of conduct, which the authority in power prescribes for society. It is the minimum regulation necessary for public order. Ethics is a much wider term than law. Ethics concentrate on the dos and Laws on the donts. Respect your elders. Ethics & Values: Values are deep-seated ideas and feelings that manifest themselves as behavior or conduct. There is a very thin line, between ethics and values. Both drive what is right and what is wrong in human conduct. By knowing consequences of our actions, we can convert values into rules of behavior that can be derived as ethics.
Value + Knowledge = Ethics Action: One use to perform various actions through his life span. These actions are: 1. Constructive actions: These are the actions which should be undertaken. 2. Destructive actions: These are prohibited actions, which should be avoided. Ethical Actions: can be explained as a social, organizational, national or personal activity into which individual is ready to function entirely in the spirit of service and dedication. World survives because of ethical action done by all. Characteristics of Ethical Actions: Ethical actions are essential not only for outward activities but also for the inner disposition of the mind. It is a mind were good or bad thoughts emerges first. Good thoughts need to be converted into action, & it leads to ethical action. Karma Yoga is the way of ethical action. Action performed with detachment and without interest in the fruit of action does not bind man to the world. Active resistance to unethical action is the central idea of in the Karma doctrine. A person following the Karma doctrine understands: that his concern is with action alone. that he has no concern with results. that he should not entertain the motive of gaining a fixed result for given action. that these idea do not mean that he should sit back courting inaction. Mind is man. As the mind, so the individuals and their experiences. If the mind is good, the individual is good if the mind is disturbed, the individual is disturbed.
Basic of mind Management: Our present day life is summation of all yesterdays which we have lived. Our various activities, & those activities are influenced by our past intellectual thoughts & emotional feelings. When thoughts of individual are expressed in words it becomes action. Our thoughts determines our actions, good thoughts leads to actions and vise versa. Objective and Subjective Minds: Mind is constituted of two distinct sides Side One: Facing the word of stimuli that reaches it from the object of the world & it is objective mind. Side Two: Facing the within which react to the stimuli received & it is subjective mind. The objective and subjective mind should work in unity for revealing right experience. Subjective mind influences object mind.
Real World Objective Mind Subjective Mind World of Action Egoistic Desires Objective and Subjective Minds: Our mind has the layers of egoistic desire in between Objective & Subjective mind. The greater the distance between these two, the greater the confusion in us. In the state of confusion mind become unsteady and loses its moral. We become incapable of facing the challenges of life.
Dual Personality: Every one of us has a picture of the ideal self. We have a self concept of a morally strong, ethical, physically loving and socially disciplined person. But this ideal remains only in the realm. We miss judge our self as a ideal person. The dark feature of our personality may be: 1. Ostentation 2. Arrogance 3. Anger;
Dual Personality: The dark feature of our personality may be: 1. Ostentation: Pretending to be righteous but living unrighteous ways of life. 2. Arrogance: Excessive pride of learning, wealth, social status of family connections & imagined self-importance lead to arrogance. 3. Anger: When an arrogant man looks around him and finds that worlds estimate of him is different from his own estimate he gets anger. Dual Personality & Self development: We find selfish man in society criticizing the slightest trace of selfishness in others. As long as we do not realize the existence of this dual personality in ourselves, there can not be any self development.
Path of Action: Through intelligent action, an individual can exhaust his existing impressions and make his subjective mind more clear and crystalline. The path of action is also called as Karma Yoga. Path of Knowledge: Lifes ideal can be attained only through knowledge. The path of knowledge is moving from ignorance to knowledge. The way of action and the way of devotion are the means of the ways of knowledge. Path of Discrimination: The path of knowledge is to control of the emotions of attachment, fear and anger. Attachment: develops desire. Fear: Sense of insecurity. Anger: anger arises towards those who come between the self of attachment. Anger is directly proportional to the amount of fear one entertains from the person creates obstacles in achieving once desire.
Path of Sacrifice of Wealth: Most of the time we use money for our selfish motives. When we part wealth in charities with no expectations it is sacrifice of wealth. It helps in strengthening positive tendencies and overcoming greed. All the religions of the world emphasize on giving regular charities . Path of Self-control: This path is similar to Jainism. Vardhaman Mahavir, conquered his self, his body desire, drives and dualities like love and hate. This path believes in the life self-control and absolute detachment from all the belongs to our physical body. According to Patanjali self control is of five kinds: Non injury, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy and non- acceptance of gifts, which means refusal to accept instruments of pleasure.
Path of Mind-control: It involves concentration and meditation. Concentration is the fixing of the inner sense upon object, an idol or image of God. It is devotion of God. Meditation is the continuity of concentration. This path is known as path of Yoga. Business ethics: can be defined as written and unwritten codes of principles and values that govern decisions and actions within a company. In the business world, the organizations culture sets standards for determining the difference between good and bad decision making and behavior. Organization culture: they define the way things are done within the organization. Organization culture has three main elements: 1. Basic values, attitudes and beliefs of the organization. 2. Organizational goals, polices, structures and strategies which are shaped by these basic values, attitudes & beliefs. 3. Organizational way of doing day to day things. Organizational values are found in mission statements, code of ethics Here is a list of ten desired values of a business organization: 1. National service through industry 2. Fairness 3. Harmony 4. Cooperation 5. Continuous improvement 6. Courtesy 7. Humility 8. Assimilation 9. Gratitude High Low Low High Economic Concern Exploitative Holistic Balanced Manipulative Moral Concerns Values Organizations Matrix Types of organization On the basis of extent of economic & ethical concern organization can be categorized into four types: 1. Exploitative 2. Manipulative 3. Balanced 4. Holistic.
Types of organization 1. Exploitative: organizations with low economic and ethical concern are exploitative in nature. For ex. Child labour, use rivers for dumping wastes and indulge in corrupt practices. 2. Manipulative organization: These organisations have high concern for economic performance but low for ethical concerns. These organization manipulate tax laws, labour laws and union leaders.
Types of organization 3. Balanced Organisation: Balanced organizations have high ethical and economical concern. These organisation are able to create profit while fulfilling their economic obligation. These organizations encourage freedom of enquiry, support personal values and reinforce them. 4. Holistic organization: There are organizations that have high ethical and low economical concern. Involves in charity work and are willing to spend money to spend fulfill their social and ethical obligations. Types of organization Codes of Ethics: are statement of values and principles which defines the purpose of the company. The most common way of institutionalizing ethics in the organization, apart from the mission statement is to establish a code of ethics. Three terms are used interchangeably 1. Code of ethics 2. Code of Conduct 3. Code of practice.
Corporate Code Of Ethics Code of ethics: The statements of values and principles which defines the principles of the company.
Code of Conduct Statements of rules comprised of a set of rules stated either affirmatively or as prohibitions.
Code of practice. This is how be do things around here.
Corporate Code Of Ethics Management: Management is an art of getting things done through people.
This definition categories two sets of people: 1. Managers 2. Workers
One group of people are dominating other. Ethical Management
Ethical Issues In Organisations. 1. Deciding if a business gift is just a gift or a bribe. 2. Attaining fairness in employee performance appraisals 3. Initiating fairness in employee performance. 4. Executing an order to take action against staff 5. Managing a problem employee 6. Handling reports of wrong doing on the job. Ethical Management