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Business Ethics

By

VIKRAM Karve

Can ethics and co-exist?

Or are the two mutually exclusive?

Ethics is relevant to the management company in the world today?

Or is "Business Ethics" an oxymoron, irrelevant in business today and the business environment?

Is there such a thing as ethics Fitness?

When hiring new people, or promoting / appointing persons or sensitive positions, a number of attributes (Hard Skills and Soft Skills), as professional competence, management skills, domain-specific skills or technical skills and irrelevant including leadership, communication, behavioral and emotional aspects, and even physical and medical fitness are assessed, evaluated and taken into consideration.

But does anyone evaluate a candidate Ethical Fitness before recruitment or appointment?

No, I do not speak of systematic verification of antecedents or integrity checks background. I speak of the ethics review of fitness.

Fitness Ethics is intended to ensure that people are in great shape to recognize their own corporate and address ethical dilemmas. Ensuring Ethical fitness in a proactive manner will result in prevention rather than corrective management ethics.

Before launching an investigation into the concept of ethical fitness, it is necessary to explore the moral dimension. Moral development is a prerequisite for ethical behavior, in fact, a sine qua non for ethical fitness. Kohlberg offers a useful framework for delineate the stage each of us has reached with respect to personal moral development.

Step 1. Physical consequences determine moral behavior.

At this stage of moral development staff, individual ethical behavior is motivated by the decision to avoid punishment or by deference to power. Repression is an automatic response of physical retaliation. The immediate consequences of a physical action to determine the goodness or wickedness. Such moral behavior is seen in boarding schools, military academies, training, etc. where the techniques of punishment body are common in order to inculcate the attributes of obedience and deference to power. The individual behaves in a manner similar to Pavlov's dog.

Step 2. Needs dictate moral behavior.

At this stage, the needs of a person are the main concerns of the corporation. The right action consists of what instrumentally satisfies your own needs. People are evaluated under their utility. Example: "I'll help because it can help me in return – you scratch my back, I scratch Sell.

Step 3. Approval others determines moral behavior.

This stage is characterized by a decision where the approval of others determines the behavior of the person. Good behavior is what pleases or helps others in the group. The right person satisfies family, friends and associates. "Everyone does, it must be correct. "You win approval by being conventionally" respectable "and" Nice ". Sin is a violation of the confidence of the social order – "log kya Kahenga?" is the leitmotif, and conformance with force "stereotypes" on the agenda day.

Step 4. Compliance with authority and maintaining social order are a person's primary concern ethical.

"Doing his duty" is the primary ethical concern. The consistency and priority must be maintained. Example: "I I comply with my instructions above because it is wrong to disobey my superior. Authority is seldom questioned. "Although I think something may be unethical, I will obey orders without question and to comply with everything my boss says because I think the boss is always right. "

Step 5. Tolerance for rational dissent and acceptance of majority rule becomes the primary ethical concern.

Example: "Even if I disagree with his point of view. I will respect his right to the have. "The right action tends to be defined in terms of individual rights generally, and in terms of standards that have been discussed in criticism and agreed by the whole society. (For example), the Constitution. The freedom of the individual must be limited by society only if it undermines the freedom of someone else.

Stage 6. This is just considered a matter of individual conscience, free choice and personal responsibility for the consequences.

Example: "It is not an external threat that can force me to take a decision that I consider morally wrong. "A person who reaches this stage acts of universal ethical principles.

Moral Development is in no way correlated with intellectual development or your position in the hierarchy or factors like rank, seniority, status, success or profit, the wages of material wealth. In the words of Alexander Orlov, a former head of the KGB, "honesty and loyalty can often be more deeply rooted in the composition of simple and humble people than in men of high position. A man has been taken bribes when he was a police officer does not turn honest when he became chief of police. The only thing that changes in the size of the pot. Weakness of character and his inability to resist the temptation to stay with the man, no matter how high it rises. "Ethical traits accompany a man to the most High levels of his career.

In summary, the factors governing for six stages of moral development determine ethical fitness can be summarized as follows:

FEAR – Stage 1

Requirements – Phase 2

CONFORMANCE – Stage 3

RESPECT - Stage4

CONSENSUS – Stage 5

Conscience and free will – Step 6

Before attempting to dive into the exploration so assess the ethical fitness, say briefly reflect on the concepts of ethical sensitivity and the vulnerability of ethics.

The ethical sensitivity of your inability to avoid the dilemmas ethical. Ethical sensitivity is according to the environment (external factors) like, for example, your work, your boss, colleagues and subordinates, or people around you, or even "common culture.

Vulnerability Ethics is your inability to resist succumbing to ethical dilemmas and situations given. It depends on your stage of moral development of internal ethics situation.

While being in an ethical dilemma not under your control, to act ethically in the present situation is certainly in your control.

vulnerability Ethics is a measure of the ease with which a man ethically compromised, especially in a poor climate ethically. In situations where ethical susceptibility is high, morally strong people (Ethically non-vulnerable) should be appointed and, conversely, that jobs and situations where ethical sensitivity is low should ethically vulnerable persons be permitted.

If the environment is not favorable ethically, a person can intellectually reach stage 6 inwardly, but deliberately outward masquerade and remain morally at stage 4, he may find he has to sacrifice too much to reach stage 6. This may be particularly seen in most hierarchical organizations where most smart employees make an outward preference of being in step 3 or 4 (conformity and compliance) to avoid jeopardizing their careers, even if internally they have achieved higher states of ethics. This Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde schizophrenic moral approach is at the heart of many ethical dilemmas faced by citizens in their professional lives and can lead to internal tensions caused by moral confusion.

Whenever two individuals at different stages of moral development interact with each other, two of them try to force or maneuver the other in their own assessment of the situation ethics, which leads to conflict.

In a formal hierarchical setup, the players the string can not be at the same stage of moral development thereby leading to dissonance ethical system. When the sensitivity is high ethically, morally strong people (less vulnerable) should be appointed and, conversely, that in those jobs where ethical susceptibility is low should ethically weak persons be permitted.

What is your stage of moral development of the person?

Be honest yourself and recall the decisions you have made in recent ethical situations.

The six stages of moral development are benchmarks important because they tell you about where you are and what changes you will make yourself go to a higher level of development morale. The ultimate goal is to engage in ethical decision making at stage 6. However, the level that you reach will depend on your ethical commitment, your ethical consciousness and your ethical competence.

Food for Thought

What do you do if your boss is the lowest stage of moral development than you?

Do you masquerade and pretend to be the "appropriate" at this stage of moral development practice and ethics of the situation to reap the maximum benefits.

This Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde schizophrenic 'approach to ethics the situation "may cause your outer masquerade to turn into inner reality.

Do you want to happen? Think about it!

Is it necessary to review the ethical fitness in business and management situations?

Or is "Business Ethics" a oxymoron irrelevant in today's business environment?

More importantly, ethics and can co-exist? Or are the two mutually exclusive?

Dear reader, what do you think? Please comment.

VIKRAM Karve

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