Discuss the below:
Key Terms
Ethical Terms
Character: Moral actions based on duty-driven ethical principles. These include trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Josephson Institute, 2009).
Ethical System: Underlying ethical principles, which a person uses to make decisions
Ethics: "The principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or organization" (Treviño & Nelson, 2011, p. 17); ethics form the basis for determining the correct action, or moral behavior, in a particular situation.
Morals: Actions based on one's underlying ethical principles
Values: Those things or actions upon which the individual or organization spends time and money
Ethical Systems
Duty-based: A moral obligation or commitment to act in a certain manner, with clear right and wrong being determined by an outside authority
Entitlement-based: Moral decisions are based entirely on what is in the best interest of the individual, regardless of relationships, the needs of others, or business.
Goal-based: Focuses on the outcome or final purpose, which may be localized, as in business, or universal, as in feeding all the hungry children in the world
Humanistic (secular humanism or human nature ethics): Beliefs based on the extremes of human behavior, both good and bad, without the direction of an outside authority
Relativistic: Relativism often uses the personalized approach to ethics. It is subjective and focuses on personal experience as a form of judgment, and many different factors play a role in determining how a person uses this system. There are no absolutes within this type of ethical approach.
Rights-based: Certain things are acceptable in a community because the majority of people in the community agree the behavior is acceptable. Consider laws and civil rights.
References
Josephson Institute (2009). Six pillars of character. Retrieved from Josephson Institute Web site:
Treviño, L. K., & Nelson, K. A. (2011). Managing business ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
World Wide Web Resources on Ethics
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia
www.ethics.ubc.ca
Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
Work from an outline with topic sentences and you will do great,
• Incorporate the terms found in the University of Phoenix Material: Key Terms.
• Focus on the developmental aspect of your ethics rather than on a particular position on any issue.
• Define your underlying ethical system, its primary principles, the sources that helped shape your ethics--such as people, institutions, events, and so forth--and the criteria and decision-making factors you have used to revise them.
• Discuss the potential effect of your ethics on your performance or use of them in your workplace. Use a specific personal example.
• Explain why ethics are needed in an organization and how ethics are integrated into an organization to achieve its direction and goals.
What effect does the application of these ethics have on individuals, organizations, and society?
This is the question:
Create a 900-word paper on personal ethics development that examines your personal ethical system and ground rules.
• Incorporate the terms found in the University of Phoenix Material: Key Terms.
• Focus on the developmental aspect of your ethics rather than on a particular position on any issue.
• Define your underlying ethical system, its primary principles, the sources that helped shape your ethics-such as people, institutions, events, and so forth-and the criteria and decision-making factors you have used to revise them.
• Discuss the potential effect of your ethics on your performance or use of them in your workplace. Use a specific personal example.
• Explain why ethics are needed in an organization and how ethics are integrated into an organization to achieve its direction and goals.
What effect does the application of these ethics have on individuals, organizations, and society?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.