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Ethics

Consider the history of the United States. For more than a hundred years most Americans considered slavery to be justified and desirable. It was part of social custom. Moreover, throughout history, many groups of people, including people of various nationalities and skin colors, as well as females, children, and individuals with disabilities, have been victims of discrimination as the result of social convention treated as ethical obligation. Yet, all social practices violating human rights are rejected, and have been rejected, by ethically sensitive, reasonable persons no matter what social conventions support those practices (Ajzen, I. and Fishbein, M., Eds).
According to the dictionary, ethics is "the study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person" (Dictionary.com, n.d.).
When we feel proud of ourselves and what we believe in, we are less likely to act unethically. Believing that holding to our ethical values will lead us to success in the long term. We take time to reflect on where we are, evaluate where we are going, and determine how we are going to get there. Ethics constitute who and what we are. Ethics will affect our decision making in some form or another. It may have been that the decision was going against your ethics. Most of us should trust our conscience and instincts. Often we measure our ethics in terms of our morals and conscience. That means that ethics reflect the values we believe are important. However, when we do have an ethical reaction against something, we should consider that reactions to be an alert to start using critical thinking strategies to understand why we feel that way.

Our professional life, ethics can impact our professional values, treatment of customers, and our business integrity. Student life, ethics will determine your academic honesty, as it relates to cheating, research, plagiarism, as well as your relationships with classmates.

Case Study One - Good Ethics...