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Being Ethical in an Unethical
Society
A PRESENTATION BY
ABBAS HUSAINSenior Associate
Training Solutions
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� If you were to present a
gift to a friend, what itemwould you rather choose to
give?
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To understand public sentiment towards business ethics
1. Has business ethics reallydeteriorated?
2. Are the media reporting ethicalproblems more frequently andvigorously?
3. Are practices that once were sociallyacceptable no longer sociallyacceptable?
ASK THREE QUESTIONS
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� ³We will not survive the 21st
century with the ethics of the 20th «´
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Business Ethics: What Does It Really Mean?
Ethical Problem
Ethical
Problem
Society¶s
Expectations
of Business
Ethics
Actual Business
Ethics
1950s Early 2000sTime
Business Ethics:Today vs. Earlier Period
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Business Ethics:
What Does It Really Mean?
Definitions
� Ethics involves a discipline that
examines good or bad practices withinthe context of a moral duty
� Moral conduct is behavior that is right or wrong
� Business ethics include practices and behaviors that are good or bad
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Developing Moral Judgment
� Religious values
� Philosophical values� Cultural values
� Legal values� Professional values
External Sources of a Manager¶s Values
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Developing Moral Judgment
� Respect for the authority
structure
� Loyalty
� Conformity
� Performance� Results
Internal Sources of a Manager¶s Values
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Sources of Ethical Norms
Fellow Workers
Family
Friends
The Law
Regions of
Country
Profession
Employer
Society atLarge
ReligiousBeliefs
The Individual
Conscience
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Ethics and the Law
� Law often represents an ethical minimum
� Ethics often represents a standard that
exceeds the legal minimum
Ethics Law
Frequent Overlap
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Twelve Questions
5. What is your intention in making thisdecision?
6. How does this intention compare with
the probable results?7. Whom could your decision or action
injure?
8. Can you discuss the problem with theaffected parties before you make your decision?
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Twelve Questions9. Are you confident that your position
will be as valid over a long period of time as it seems now?
10. Can you d isclose without qualms your
decision or action to your boss, your CEO, the board of directors, your family, society as a whole?
11. What is the symbolic potential of your
action if understood? If misunderstood?12. Under what conditions would you
allow exceptions to your stand?
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Overview
1. Defined
2. Other si d e
3. First place4. Loyalty
5. Intention
6. Results
7. Injure
8. Affected parties
9. Position10. Disclose without qualms
11. Symbolic potential
12. Exceptions
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VIRTUES AND VICES
� The true meaning of virtueand vice has become
increasingly confused inmodern times.
� No proper demarcation has
been made between the two
categories.
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� Progress
� Honor
� Love for one¶s nation
� Statesmanship
� Keeping up with the march of time
In the modern world, following are
VIRTUES
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And following are
VICES� Lack of initiative
� Idleness
� Dogmatism and Fanaticism
� Debasing
� Meanness and pettiness of mind� Whimsicality
� Misanthropy
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But if you look carefully, the
virtues are actually vices andvices are actually virtues
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� Progress
� Honor
� Love for one¶s nation
� Statesmanship� Keeping up with the
march of time
� Greed for money and
social position
� Pride
� Spirit of tribalism whichblinds one to the
distinction between right
and wrong
� Deceit and cunning� Hypocrisy
Nowadays
VirtuesEssential
Nature
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� Lack of initiative
� Idleness
� Dogmatism andFanaticism
� Debasing
� Contentment
� Acceptance of andResignation to the willof God
� Regard for religionand Firmness of Faith
� Indifference to one¶sphysical appearance
Nowadays
VicesEssential
Nature
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� Meanness andpettiness of mind
� Whimsicality
� Misanthropy
� Courtesy
� Fear of God andPiety
� Keeping oneself from unnecessarilymixing with people
Nowadays
Vices
Essential
Nature
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THANK YOU
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ABBAS HUSAINDIRECTOR
TEACHERS¶ DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
129-G Block 2 PECHS Karachi 75400
www.tdc.edu. pk
E-mail: abbas@tdc.edu. pk
info@tdc.edu. pk
Tel: 021-4310217/4392949
ABBAS HUSAINDIRECTOR
TEACHERS¶ DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
129-G Block 2 PECHS Karachi 75400
www.tdc.edu. pk
E-mail: abbas@tdc.edu. pk
info@tdc.edu. pk
Tel: 021-4310217/4392949
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