Practice What You Preach
Practice what you Preach | Business Ethics ECBA 401-20-0911 | By: Gail E. Campbell For: Dr. Robert Stevens |
Practice what you Preach
Being ethical can be shaky because the meaning is hard to pin down and the views of many are different. The law often incorporates ethical standards to which most citizens go by is what makes ethics and the law not the same. But laws, like feelings, can deviate from what is ethical. Even though being ethical is not the same as doing “whatever society accepts.” In any society, most people accept standards that are, in fact, ethical, which may also be why an entire society can become ethically corrupt.
What then is ethics? Ethics is two things. First, ethics refers to well based standards of right and wrong that suggested to what humans ought to do. Usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that carry out the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault, slander and fraud. Then there are ethical standards that relates to the rights that command virtues of honesty, compassion and loyalty.
Secondly ethics refers to the study and development of one’s ethical standards. So it is necessary to constantly examine one’s standards to ensure that they are reasonable and well-founded. Which means that the continuous effort of studying our own moral beliefs and moral conduct are to strive to ensure that we as people help shape and live up to the standards that are reasonable.
The information that I have endorsed during class of Business Ethics has assured me the reasons why these principles are in place and why they are taught. When there are certain things that are put into practice we all tend to abide in the same manner and it is massively known and accepted.
Let us say that I would apply my ethics like; Equal opportunity in the work place. First thing is that I would keep my mind clear of
Practice what you Preach
Being ethical can be shaky because the meaning is hard to pin down and the views of many are different. The law often incorporates ethical standards to which most citizens go by is what makes ethics and the law not the same. But laws, like feelings, can deviate from what is ethical. Even though being ethical is not the same as doing “whatever society accepts.” In any society, most people accept standards that are, in fact, ethical, which may also be why an entire society can become ethically corrupt.
What then is ethics? Ethics is two things. First, ethics refers to well based standards of right and wrong that suggested to what humans ought to do. Usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that carry out the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault, slander and fraud. Then there are ethical standards that relates to the rights that command virtues of honesty, compassion and loyalty.
Secondly ethics refers to the study and development of one’s ethical standards. So it is necessary to constantly examine one’s standards to ensure that they are reasonable and well-founded. Which means that the continuous effort of studying our own moral beliefs and moral conduct are to strive to ensure that we as people help shape and live up to the standards that are reasonable.
The information that I have endorsed during class of Business Ethics has assured me the reasons why these principles are in place and why they are taught. When there are certain things that are put into practice we all tend to abide in the same manner and it is massively known and accepted.
Let us say that I would apply my ethics like; Equal opportunity in the work place. First thing is that I would keep my mind clear of