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Value & Ethics

Value & Ethics. Paul B April 11 2012. Overview . Ethics Discussion. What does ethics even mean? Do you live by an ethical code? What effects your ethical code?. Ethics Definition. Mind Mapping time – Define Ethics. Ethics:

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Value & Ethics

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  1. Value & Ethics Paul B April 11 2012

  2. Overview

  3. Ethics Discussion • What does ethics even mean? • Do you live by an ethical code? • What effects your ethical code?

  4. Ethics Definition • Mind Mapping time – Define Ethics Ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's or group's behaviour. The moral correctness of specified conduct

  5. How ethical are you?

  6. Candidate A is Franklin D Roosevelt, Candidate B is Winston Churchill, and Candidate C is Adolph Hitler. And by the way the answer to the abortion question... If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven. Please note: This ethics puzzle became popular during the 1990's when it was widely circulated in various formats by email. Certain historical facts in the puzzle however are not correct, notably relating to Beethoven's background, which while humble was not nearly so disadvantaged as the puzzle suggests. Similarly the negative aspects of Roosevelt and Churchill are exaggerated, and Hitler would have found it difficult to conduct any extra-marital affairs given that he was first married in a bunker shortly before his death.

  7. Film Review:Boiler Room

  8. Discussion • What were the ethical questions faced in this film? • Would you of handled the situation differently? • Take-aways

  9. Business Application

  10. Quotes It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966) Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling Valdemar W. Setzer, Brazilian anthropologist Being good is good business Anita Roddick 1942-, British founder of The Body Shop If ethics are poor at the top, that behaviour is copied down through the organization Robert Noyce, inventor of the silicon chip The time is always right to do what is right Martin Luther King

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