Wednesday, March 18, 2020

ETHICS OVERVIEW


What is Ethics?

* Ethics is branch of philosophy that involve systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts right and wrong conduct

* The term ethics derives from the ancient Greek word "Ethos" which means custom or habit

* Ethics seeks to resolve question of human morality by defining concept such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.



 Business Ethics

* Control Business Malpractices         * Improve Business Goodwill
*  Better Relation with Employee        * Better Decision Making
* Improves Customer Satisfaction        * Protection of Society
* Increase Profitability


 Work Ethics



* Maximum Effort - You work hard
* Integrity - Doing the right thing
* Attitude - Positive Attitude
* Pride in Work - Every Job Matter
* Attendance - You need to handle it properly

 
Work Excellence
  
* Productivity
* Customer Service
* Communication
* Followership
* Continuous Learning
* Be a good team player
* Problem Solving
* Organization
* Time Management
* Appearance

Ethical Theories

* Plato - Plato's dialogues when the character Socrates begins to suppose that the soul has desires that are not always for what is good. Then the complexities of moral psychology become an important issue in the account of virtue. That development is found in Plato's mature moral theory.

* Thomas Aquinas - Aquinas’s ethical theory involves both principles – rules about how to act – and virtues – personality traits which are taken to be good or moral to have. The relative importance of the two aspects is debated. Modern thinkers tend to work more with principles, whereas ancient thinkers work with virtues, so this question decides which way the reader positions Aquinas. 

* Immanuel Kant - Kant’s theory is an example of a deontological moral theory–according to these theories, the rightness or wrongness of actions does not depend on their consequences but on whether they fulfill our duty.

* John Rawl - His theory of justice as fairness describes a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights and cooperating within an egalitarian economic system. His theory of political liberalism delineates the legitimate use of political power in a democracy, and envisions how civic unity might endure despite the diversity of worldviews that free institutions allow. His writings on the law of peoples set out a liberal foreign policy that aims to create a permanently peaceful and tolerant international order.

* Egoism - Ethical egoism is the view that people ought to pursue their own self-interest, and no one has any obligation to promote anyone else's interests. It is thus a normative or prescriptive theory: it is concerned with how people ought to behave

* Utilitarianism - normative ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the outcomes (consequences) of choosing one action/policy over other actions/policies. As such, it moves beyond the scope of one's own interests and takes into account the interests of others.