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- "ETHICS is the name we give to our concern for good
- behavior " Albert Schweitzer
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- ETHICS is everyone's business and everyone's responsi-
- bility. It applies to everyone's job description.
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- ETHICS are the stance an individual takes when making
- judgement calls (that are not necessarily predefined).
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- To some people ETHICS means simply 'staying out of
- trouble'.
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- ETHICS is the "effort to understand the order and
- priority of our values and how they fit together. It
- includes the reasons for our doing what we do and our
- knowledge of ...consequences and the sense that what
- we are doing is right." [Robert C Solomon, Ethics,
- a Brief Introduction,1984,R.R. Donnelly].
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- Tough ETHICAL DECISIONS may require leadership and
- fortitude and may expose the decision maker to intense
- criticism. Ethical dilemmas increase pressures on
- the individuals. The decision maker may incur personal
- sacrifice from an unresolved dilemma. An old Greek
- proverb expresses this sentiment:
- "First secure an independent income,
- then practice virtue... "
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- Ethical decisions are sometimes made with conviction,
- almost spontaneously from a habit of being ethical.
- Ethical decision making involves the individual's stage
- of moral development interacting with the culture of
- the business.
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- A highly developed SENSE OF VALUES enables one to do
- the right thing almost automatically.
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- ETHICAL BEHAVIOR is often absorbed from parents,church,
- grandparents, peers, and the inspiration of examples.
- Ethical influences can be a man's equals in the company;
- the ethical climate of the particular industry, company
- policy, and the behavior of superiors. Ethics are a
- reflection of the community:
- "Morality is the custom of one's country and the
- current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is
- moral in a cannibal society" ---
- Sam Butler
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