values and ethics in management

Guides to moral behaviour Good: honesty, keeping promises, helping others, respective rights of others Bad: lying, stealing, deceiving, harming others Universality of ethical principles: should apply in the same manner in all countries, cultures, communities Relativity of ethical principles: vary from country to country, community to community

VALUES & ETHICS

IN MANAGEMENT

“To see what is right and not to do

it is want of courage”

Confucius Ethics in teaching

Ethics– the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong

ETHICS

What are ethics?

•Societal norms adopted by a group

A conception of conduct that is right or wrong

• Deal with fundamental human

relationships

•Are a universal human trait

Ethical Principles – What are they?

• Guides to moral behaviour

– Good: honesty, keeping promises, helping

others, respective rights of others

– Bad: lying, stealing, deceiving, harming others

• Universality of ethical principles: should apply in the same manner in all countries, cultures, communities

• Relativity of ethical principles: vary from country to country, community to

community

Lack of Ethics

Greed & Jealous

Bad career

Disastrous life

In democratic culture, if we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance

Cal Thomus

Empowering individuals

 Helping other

 Responsibility for unethical activity

 Practice what you Preach

Ghandi

Society is expectations from development managers

 make decisions about issues with a social

dimension

 In competitive environment organization cannot

afford to be seen as socially irresponsible

Demonstrate social Responsibility

 Social Responsibility

 Social Obligation

Managerial Ethics

 Rules and principles that define

right and wrong conduct

 Views of Ethics

Utilitarian view (vu loi)

basic of their outcomes

Rights view

privileges(quyen cong dan)

Theory of Justice

luc) rules fairly and impractically