Professional Ethics

“Doing What is Right”

Professional Ethics
Professional Ethics is the implication of Right Understanding in Life and
Profession.

 Natural acceptance of human values

 Definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct
 Basis for Humanistic Education, Human1.istic Constitution and Humanistic
Universal Order
 Competence in professional ethics:
 Ability to utilize the professional competence for augmenting universal human
order
 Ability to identify the scope and characteristics of people-friendly and eco-
friendly production systems
 Ability to identify and develop appropriate technologies and management
patterns for above production systems.

 Case studies of typical holistic technologies, management models and

production systems
 Strategy for transition from the present state to Universal Human Order:
a) At the level of individual: as socially and ecologically responsible engineers,
technologists and managers
b) At the level of society: as mutually enriching institutions and organizations
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Values: Human Conduct
Ethics : Science of Conduct

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 Natural acceptance of human values

All the Values based on relationships ( Harmony in Family):

Trust to Love

Participation of activity of’ ‘I’ :

1.Realization
2.Understanding
3.Behavior
4.Work

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 Definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct

“Human conduct is definite”

1.Values (Mulya) Realization/Right Understanding

2. Character (Charitra) Behaviour/Work

3.Policy (Neeti) Thought

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 Competence in professional ethics:

Profession
-- In the light of comprehensive human goal

-- Channel of participation in larger order

-- It’s is not only earning

-- Right utilization of professional skills

-- Ensuring competence by knowing why people do unethical

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Sailiant features ensuring competence

-- Clarity
-- Trust worthy
-- Confident
-- Competence in mutually fullfiment
-- Competence in understanding real life

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 Question:
List any five unethical practices in profession today?

Answer:
1.Corruption
2.Tax evasion
3.Misleading propaganda
4.Exploiting the weakness of consumers
5.Adulteration and spurious production

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Methods to remove Unethical Practices:

-- Promoting awareness
-- Administrative oaths
-- Audit inspections
-- Framing more clear but hard laws and give hard punishment
-- Promoting transparencies
-- Carrying out sting operations
-- Setting up ethics committes

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Issue to be discussed
Competence in professional ethics:

Profit  undivided family, universal human order, synergetic relationship

with nature

Human Friendly Management Models

Shasan  Vyavastha

Human Friendly & Eco Friendly Production & Production Processes

Production-Work
What to Produce: profitable physical facilities  Required physical facilities
How to produce: Linear  Avartansheel
Storage – Exchange
Why?: madness for profit  with a feeling of relationship and responsibility to
participate in Undivided Family, Universal Human Order

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Domination (shasan)  Self Organization (vyavastha)
Central control & decision making Decentralized control & decision
making

Top down (Each Unit is assumed Self Organized (Each Unit is

to be irresponsible, has to be responsible, is in order and
monitored and forced) participates in the larger order)

Human resource Human being

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