Human Values Chapter 1

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
&
HUMAN VALUES
CHAPTER NO 1
HUMAN VALUES
MORALS
• Morals are the welfare principles enunciated by the wise people, based
on their experience and wisdom.
VALUES
• A value is defined as a principle that promotes well-being or prevents
harm.” Another definition is: Values are our guidelines for our
success—our paradigm about what is acceptable.”
ETHICS
• Ethics is the word that refers to morals, values, and beliefs of the
individuals, family or the society.
• INTEGRITY
• Integrity is defined as the unity of thought, word and deed (honesty)
and open mindedness.
• WORK ETHICS
• Work ethics is defined as a set of attitudes concerned with the value of
work, which forms the motivational orientation.
SERVICE LEARNING
• Service learning refers to learning the service policies, procedures,
norms, and conditions, other than ‘the technical trade practices’.
• VIRTUES
• Virtues are positive and preferred values
• CIVIC VIRTUES
• Civic virtues are the moral duties and rights, as a citizen of the village
or the country or an integral part of the society and environment.
Civic virtues
 Civic knowledge
 Self-Restraint
 Self-Assertion
 Self-Reliance
RESPECT FOR OTHERS
• Recognize and accept the existence of other persons as human
beings, because they have a right to live, just as you have.
• Respect others’ ideas (decisions), words, and labor (actions).
• Show ‘goodwill’ on others.
Living peacefully
• To live peacefully, one should start install peace within (self). Charity
begins at home.
• Then one can spread peace to family, organization where one works,
and then to the world, including the environment.
• Only who are at peace can spread peace.
Caring
• Caring is feeling for others. It is a process which exhibits the interest
in, and support for, the welfare of others with fairness, impartiality
and justice in all activities, among the employees, in the context of
professional ethics.
SHARING
• Primarily, caring influences ‘sharing’. Sharing is a process that
describes the transfer of knowledge (teaching, learning, and
information), experience (training), commodities (material
possession) and facilities with others.
HONESTY
 Honesty is a virtue, and it is exhibited in two aspects namely,
(a) Truthfulness and
(b) Trustworthiness
• COURAGE
Courage is the tendency to accept and face risks and difficult tasks in rational
ways. Self-confidence is the basic requirement to nurture courage.
Courage is classified into three types, based on the types of risks, namely
(a) Physical courage,
(b) Social courage, and
(c) Intellectual courage.
VALUING TIME
• Time is rare resource. Once it is spent, it is lost for ever.
• It can not be either stored or recovered.
• Hence, time is the most perishable and most valuable resource too.
COOPERATION
• It is a team-spirit present with every individual engaged in
engineering. Co-operation is activity between two persons or sectors
that aims at integration of operations (synergy),
COMMITMENT
• Commitment means alignment to goals and adherence to ethical
principles during the activities.
• This is a basic requirement for any profession.
• EMPATHY
It is also defined as the ability to put one’s self into the psychological
frame or reference or point of view of another, to know what the other
person feels.
SELF-CONFIDENCE
• Certainty in one’s own capabilities, values, and goals, is self-
confidence.
• Self-confidence is positive attitude, wherein the individual has some
positive and realistic view of himself, with respect to the situations in
which one gets involved.
CHALLENGES IN THE WORK PLACE
• Character
It is a characteristic property that defines the behavior of an
individual. It is the pattern of virtues (morally-desirable features).
Character includes attributes that determine a person’s moral and
ethical actions and responses.
• Ethics and Character
The effect on the person’s character of a particular form of conduct is
a universally accepted as a test of its moral quality.
Education and Character
• The aim of education is not only the cultivation of the intellect but also
the formation of moral character.
Building Character in the Workplace
1) Employee Hiring, Training, and Promotion Activities
2) Internal Communication
3) External Communication
4) Financial and Human Resources
5) Community Outreach
SPIRITUALITY
• Spirituality is a way of living that emphasizes the constant awareness
and recognition of the spiritual dimension (mind and its development)
of nature and people, with a dynamic balance between the material
development and the spiritual development.
 Spirituality in the Workplace
Verbally respect the individuals as humans and recognize their values
in all decisions and actions.
State your personal ethics and your beliefs clearly.
Support causes outside the business.
Spirituality for Corporate Excellence
• Self-awareness
• Being visionary and value based
• Holism
• Compassion
• Respect for diversity
• Moral Autonomy
• Creative thinking and constant reasoning
• Humility

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