GE1301- PROFESSIONAL ETHICS & HUMAN VALUES

ETHICS-HUMAN VALUES

ETHICS- Definition
It is defined as what is morally right and morally wrong.

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS:
The ethics involves in organization level is called professional ethics. They
involve relation between two organizations or group of individuals or between
corporation and govt.

PERSONAL ETHICS;
It deals with how we treat others in day by day life.

ENGINEERING ETHICS:
It is to study the related problems about moral ideas, character, policies and the
relationship of people and corporation involved in technical activities.

IMPORTANCE OF THE ETHICS:

 Several Notorial instance accidents or other impacts happened due to simple
negligence of duties.
 Lack of appreciation from the responsibilities.
 These incidence and attitudes raised a lot of failure and created awareness on the
need and maintaining the ethics in engineering profession.

HUMAN VALUES:
Some universally accepted human values are,
Love, concern others, care, honesty, truthfulness, integrity, trustworthiness,
humility, self respect, courage, characters, spirituality etc.
Morals, Values and Ethics that from vital constituents of human values enable to
the professional engineers to differentiate right things from wrong things.

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MORALS:
It is philosophical studies which focus on right and wrong behavior.
The moral philosophy provides to engineer, his capability to deal with financial,
industrial and technical formalities.
The moral issues enable to the professionally committed engineer to develop
perfect familiarity with industrial environment.
Types of Moral issues:
1. Organization related type
2. Environmental related type
3. Society related type
4. Product related type
5. Finance/cost related type
6. Customer related type
7. Supplier related type
8. Competitor related type
9. Employee related type
10. Government related type.
VALUES:
Values which constitutes an important component of behavioral and intellectual
status of people, contribute to the stable and justified character.
The term values refer to the strong believes that influences the persons to take
suitable remedies as a guiding force to any critical problem.
Types of values:
 Terminal values
 Instrumental values
 Theoretical type
 Aesthetic type
 Social type
 Political type
Source of values:
 Family factors
 Social factors
 Personal factors

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ETHICS:
“Ethics generally refers to the study of morals and values. Ethics is a matter of
action or behavior. It is an activity and also an area of inquiry”
Ethics list the following Character which emphasizes ethical values.
 Trustworthiness
 Respect
 Responsibility
 Fairness
 Caring
 Good citizenship

INTEGRITY:
It means that consistency in attitude, emotion and conduct in relation to justified
moral issues.
It represents unity of character based on concern of honesty.
Honesty is an integral part of integrity. Without integrity there is no honesty.

Types of integrity:
1. Academic integrity:
 Cheating
 Fabrication
 Plagiarism
 Misinterpretation
 Sabotage and theft

2. Research integrity:
Resorting to dishonesty in the field of scientific research forms the
important aspect of this research integrity.
This includes the leakage of vital information’s and resource data of any
scientific or technical research studies.

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WORK ETHICS:
Work Ethics means that, the moral values in association with the specific
accountability of an individual towards the responsible discharging of his duties.

Qualities of Work Ethics:

 Punctuality
 Exhibiting certain noble characters
 Team sprit
 Civilized manners
 Active involvement
 Better communication skills
 Leadership quality

SERVICE LEARNING:
Service learning provides better opportunity to understand the practical problem
faced by the common public.
Service learning is also mean learning from the past.

Salient feature of service learning:

 It provides sufficient mental attitude
 It stimulate aptitude & creative power
 To develop self confidence
 It provides basic accessibility

CIVIC VIRTUE:
It refers to the moral behavior through good habits for better society interactions.
It enables to have the justified morality that greatly influences the human behavior
Contented.

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RESPECT TO OTHERS:
Self respect and respect for others that are basic constituents of typical moral
conduct and discipline, are important factors in the behavioral pattern life style of an
individual.

Characteristic of respect:
 Self respect
 Altruism (selflessness)
 Calm composure
 Daring act
 Good humor
 The concept of wisdom & trust worthiness

Types of Respect:
 Recognition self respect
 Evaluation self respect

LIVING PEACEFULLY:
For healthy and comfortable life the peaceful mind is essential several medical report
and psychotherapist have suggested various procedures and methods to reduce tension for
restoring the peaceful life.
 Development of disciplined orderliness
 Reorientation of the personal commitment
 Conducting physical and mental programmes
 Development of self reliance and self control
 Roll of counseling

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CARING:
Caring is one of important aspect of human life. It is a relationship with relatives,
neighbors, friends and co-workers.
Caring means to understanding and sharing the feeling of others.
The caring includes personal family and community caring.
The caring promotes and strengthens the bond of love, and affinity.

Characteristics features of caring:

1. Caring as essence of moral values.
2. Caring is heart of ethics.
3. The ultimate goal of caring.
4. Caring to fulfill one’s obligations.
5. Caring as an experimental
6. Reciprocation of the Caring.

SHARING:
Sharing means, sharing of feelings, ideas, thoughts, resources and benefits.
It refers to the personal tendency for the mutual interdependence on various aspects.
It is mutual communication between the individuals for a free and frank inter exchange of
views, opinions and personal matters.

Various types of sharing:

1. Sharing technological & knowledge
2. Sharing personal information’s
3. Sharing any achievements
4. Sharing sympathy and condolence in terms of any tragedy eventually.
5. Sharing experience & time utility.
6. Sharing a job.
7. Sharing a loss and profits.

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HONESTY:
Honesty is important of human value. The moral standard by which certain virtues
such as truthfulness and trust worthiness are maintained in the behavioral act of an
individual is called honesty.

COURAGE:
The term courage refers the tendency of an individual for the bold and upright
expression of views acts without any fear and submission.

VALUING TIME:
Valuing time means to the judicious planning of utilizing the time for a fruitful
purpose.

CO-OPERATION:
Co- operation means extending help to others that means the voluntary interest of
an individual’s to help or assist other persons for achieving a specific goal and objective.
Co- operation which is true symbol of the human values, promotes the successful
completion of any task with a sense of satisfaction.

COMMITMENT:
The term commitment refers to the voluntary instinct and readiness to take up any
kind of work.
The tendency of commitment is much required for the perfect completion of
execution of any personal or professional affair.

The characteristic features are:

1. Consistent efforts
2. Tendency of caring
3. Reliable approach
4. Dependable attitude
5. Duty consciousness
6. Sense of integrity
7. Dedicated loyalty.

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Types of commitment:
1. Any commitment to work
2. Professional commitment
3. Customer commitment
4. Any commitment to a friend
5. Any commitment of a nation.

EMPATHY:
It refers to the basic attitude of a person to feel and share the problems of others.

SELF CONFIDENCE:
The term self confidence refers to the positive attitude to face and execute
anything with capability.
Self confidence is identified as an important moral virtue that strengthens the
mental stability and will power for successful achievement of any task.

Feature of self confidence:

 Powerful conviction of mind
 Courageous attitude to shoulder responsibility
 Positive thinking with optimistic thoughts
 Awareness to cater the needs of others
 Capability to adapt with the changes
 Bold attitude to take risky efforts
 Attitude for experimentation to understand new things
 Individuality in taking bold decisions

CHARACTER:
One the popular proverb is
“When character is lost, everything of an individual is lost“
The character refers to the total presence of all good values and virtues of an individual

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SPIRITUALITY:

 The term spirituality refers to the internal instinct (character) and conscious soul
that are directed towards the attainment of eternal (endless) peace.
 In general spirituality refers to “Divine approach “to realize god. Spirituality
may also include certain beliefs in supernatural powers as referred to in
religions. It is important to understand the meaning of religion and spirituality
and their difference.
 In work place spirituality is not the same as religion. Religion is something
which we can select as a choice or in other words we can change religion later
on in future.
 Spirituality actually comes into play when we decide to do what we feel is right.
Therefore spirituality in the work place is a feeling at home and similar to the
works that what we have to do as a daily job with a great level of comfort.
 Spirituality is something that we carry within us or sense for self-respect.

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