Ethics: Whats hot?
While reading the piece, I was quite saddened by the fact that the Professor needs to ask questions of what might happen if you do something like this or that. It’s sad because a person during this modern era, needs to be threatened of the consequence of their action instead of realizing what is right or wrong from the very start.
In my very young career, I have come face to face with different situations which could destroy my ethics, very tempting offers wherein I can earn quite a large sum. “May 1,000php per trip ka dito pre” “May baon ka na dito pare, order ka lang tapos kunin mo nalang sa katapusan ng buwan” During these situations, an image of my father and mother pops up in my head and tells me to keep my integrity, and protect our name because this is all we’ve got. I can proudly say, I have never accepted any under the table offers and I don’t plan on doing so any time soon.
As mentioned in the book, it’s quite easy to say and teach to be ethical, but no one has ever taught me how to do it. It is a very difficult task to keep your ethics and integrity, especially when corruption is so widespread in our culture, that it has become average, that it has become accepted, that it has become “industry practice”. What makes corruption so tempting is not the amount of money in the envelope, but the fact that everyone is doing it, they get to buy what they want, and they get away with it. It is very confusing, and all you can do is stick to what your teachers taught you in nursery, on what’s right or wrong.
I was struck by Buddy’s post in the reading. He and I have almost the same thoughts. I look at corporate ethics as something subjective. It depends on each individual. He was wrong though in saying that the most intellectual wins in the battle of ethics, no. Anyone who believes so much on what he’s doing is right , no matter what reasoning comes his way, wins in himself, and that’s what really matters if you come to
In my very young career, I have come face to face with different situations which could destroy my ethics, very tempting offers wherein I can earn quite a large sum. “May 1,000php per trip ka dito pre” “May baon ka na dito pare, order ka lang tapos kunin mo nalang sa katapusan ng buwan” During these situations, an image of my father and mother pops up in my head and tells me to keep my integrity, and protect our name because this is all we’ve got. I can proudly say, I have never accepted any under the table offers and I don’t plan on doing so any time soon.
As mentioned in the book, it’s quite easy to say and teach to be ethical, but no one has ever taught me how to do it. It is a very difficult task to keep your ethics and integrity, especially when corruption is so widespread in our culture, that it has become average, that it has become accepted, that it has become “industry practice”. What makes corruption so tempting is not the amount of money in the envelope, but the fact that everyone is doing it, they get to buy what they want, and they get away with it. It is very confusing, and all you can do is stick to what your teachers taught you in nursery, on what’s right or wrong.
I was struck by Buddy’s post in the reading. He and I have almost the same thoughts. I look at corporate ethics as something subjective. It depends on each individual. He was wrong though in saying that the most intellectual wins in the battle of ethics, no. Anyone who believes so much on what he’s doing is right , no matter what reasoning comes his way, wins in himself, and that’s what really matters if you come to