Ethics Q1

• Ethics is a branch of philosophy that studies morality or the rightness or wrongness of human conduct and rationalizing the moral choices of an individual, a society or a large community.
• Ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos which means character, custom, or manners.
• The branch of philosophical study that focuses on ‘ethics’ is concerned with studying and/or building up a coherent set of ‘rules’ or principles by which people ought to live.
• Rules refer to explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct within a specific activity dictate what is allowed or not allowed in a particular situation.
• Rules protect social beings by regulating behavior.
• Rules limit behavior by imposing consequences to those who will violate them.
• Rules are essential for a healthy economic system to ensure product safety, employee safety, and product quality.
• Morality are the prevailing standards of behavior that enable people to live cooperatively in groups.
• Morality refers to what societies sanction as right and acceptable.
• Ethics deals with right and wrong conduct.
• Ethics are generally uniform, the general truth.
• Ethics studies morality as a whole.
• Morality are the principles of right and wrong.
• Morals may differ to society to society and culture to culture.
• Moral Dilemma are situations in which a difficult choice has to be made between 2 courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle.
• Moral Dilemma involve conflicts between moral requirements.
• Personal Dilemma are those experienced and resolved on the personal level.
• Organizational Dilemma refer to ethical cases encountered and resolved by social organizations.
• An example of an Organizational Dilemma is in health care organizations, where the right to die, euthanasia, is a controversial issue.
• Business-related Dilemmas include issues such as employees rights, harassment, job discrimination.