· Ethical behavior is the product of moral sensitivity, judgment, motivation, and character. · Increase your sensitivity to potential ethical issues through perspective taking and using moral terminology.
Contextual variables play a role in shaping ethical behavior · Moral Motivation: After concluding on the best course of action, decision makers must be motivated to follow through on their choices. · Rewards play an important part in ethical follow through (raises).
Understanding how we make and follow through on ethical decisions is the first step to making better choices; taking a systematic approach is the second. i. Requires empathy and perspective skills · 3 levels: pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional. Higher level = higher sophistication. i.
· Moral Motivation: After concluding on the best course of action, decision makers must be motivated to follow through on their choices. · Rewards play an important part in ethical follow through (raises). · Emotions (both positive and negative) will have a corresonding effect on moral motivation.
One determines what constitutes an ethical course of action by first determining if the action involves other human beings, and then if so, by determining the telos of that particular act and its parts, then remembering that human beings cannot be reduced to just parts.
There are two ways in which ethical behavior of a person can be enforced i.e .either internally or externally. The role of a government is significantly a external factor with laws,rules and regulations and internalizing such ethical behavior is only to a limited extent.
Social values and education play a vital role in a person's ethical behavior.The duty of a government is to inculcate such values into the ecosystem through value based education irresp. Continue Reading. There are two ways in which ethical behavior of a person can be enforced i.e .either internally or externally.
The decline in ethical behavior is usually a sign of a lack of sane and moderate spirituality and gravitating to our animal nature as opposed to our spiritual nature. We behave selfishly and rudely when we are not spiritual.
There is a difference between the moral and the legal, and it is not the purpose of government (proper rights protecting government) to enforce a code of values onto its citizens. Morality is what you ought to do, law states what you ought not to do (like punch someone out for stating something you disagree with).
The role of ethics in our society is very important because it is the basic beliefs and standa. Continue Reading. First I will focus on ‘ethics’ which are moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity. We could say society shape people & people shape society it goes both ways.
Continue Reading. By a well-formed conscience, is what dictates what is or is not ethical. Society in a particular locale, town, county, state, province or country determines what constitutes a well-formed conscience. They are getting harder and harder to find.