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Mindset or Competency: Which is More Important?
By Linda Fisher Thornton This post will explore the interesting relationship between leadership mindset and competency. Which is most important? What happens to our leadership capability when our mindset is out of date? An “Un-Fixed” Mindset Keeping an open mind and adapting when new information is available is important for our leadership success. Capability, or what we can do, is still…
Understanding the Tarot Card Justice: Balance, Truth, and Responsibility
Explore the Justice card in Tarot, symbolizing balance, truth, and responsibility. Learn its meanings in various contexts and how it guides you to make ethical decisions and embrace fairness in life.
The Justice card in Tarot is a powerful symbol of balance, fairness, truth, and responsibility. It is a card that emphasizes the importance of ethical decisions, accountability, and the consequences of our actions. Whether you are a seasoned Tarot reader or a curious novice, understanding the Justice card can provide valuable insights into your life and the situations you face. In this blog post,…
Sunday Musings: Connecting with Nature's Soul
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Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders (Part 2)
By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series I looked at the importance of Deep Thinking. In Part 2, we’ll consider the Context. No matter how much effort it takes to understand the context, we can’t expect to make an ethical decision without taking that step. Understanding the Context Without seeing the context – a broad and sweeping view of the issue we are discussing or trying to…
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How Engineers Maintain Ethics For Professionalism
Principles of ethical conduct for the engineering industry
Ethics are basically principles followed depending upon the moral responsibility that a person feels. The study of related questions can be termed as Engineering ethics. It is based on moral ideals, character, policies, and relationships of people and organizations involved in the technological activity.
An engineer requires following up on some ethical issues. No matter whether he works individually or works for a company under some conditions. For instance, the conceptualization of a product, issues arising in design and testing departments, or the issues involving the manufacturing, sales, and services. Questions related to morality also arise during and supervision team works.
Why ethical decisions are important?
The moral values and ethical decisions of the engineers of Best Engineering College in Jaipur need to be recognized and considered. This is because their decision always creates the impact on the product and services. For instance, it includes how safe they are to use, the company and related shareholders who believe in the company’s goodwill, the public, and society who trusts the company in terms of the benefits of the people and so on.
Not only an engineer of Engineering Colleges in Rajasthan, but everyone needs to follow a set of morals in order to keep away from getting morally degraded. Our behavior should include the following −
1. Respecting others and ourselves.
2. Respecting the rights of others.
3. Keeping promises.
4. Avoiding unnecessary problems for others.
5. Avoiding cheating and dishonesty.
Morality commands respect for persons. This includes being fair and just, fulfilling obligations and respecting rights, and not taking unnecessary losses by dishonesty and cruelty.
Steps to deal with issues
In the case of any issue, an individual must possess a few skills in order to sort out the problem. Engineers of B Tech Colleges have to face lots of issues, but they need to be deal with patience. While dealing with such issues, few moral goals have to be kept in mind like: ?????
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Do It When No One Is Watching
This conversation that dear H started this week is written about a lot and is widely preached but scantily followed. I embark on writing this topic not knowing what I can write that hasn’t been written, said or lectured before. Do you read a negative connotation in my words? It is because that is how most of us react to a lesson in Ethics, with a stifled yawn, although the fact that we as a society feel the need to be taught Ethics tells us that ethics and integrity are just as uncommon as common sense.
A frequent suggestion was given when asked how to judge if a decision made is right or not is to ask oneself if their choice would be different if they knew that their loved ones are watching them. The fact is on a day to day basis we pay attention neither to the myriad decisions we make nor to the motivations that drive our inner self to make those decisions because most of them are driven by nature, and well, let us be honest here, there is just no time to think over every decision made. For the most part, these decisions do not harm anyone, but there are those times when something we said or did bothers us, makes us queasy, annoys us like a fly that hovers just near enough to drive you up the wall. That nagging feeling is the guilt, and it could be a minor decision or a major or a first of its kind, but we feel that when we know, we stepped off the rail.
So, we do not need a lesson in ethics, do we? It seems to me like we have a built-in moral compass that guides us in the right direction. The feeling of guilt we are talking about is not driven by someone else watching us but us watching ourselves. The trouble is that not all of us are introspective and hence we do not feel the shame creeping upon us until we see another pair of eyes noticing our actions. Thus it seems to me that this built-in moral compass is influenced by quite a few parameters like enforcement of Law and Order, Demographic history, culture and norms, the company we keep etc.,
I will give you an example closer to my roots. I was 18 when I secured my driving licence. My driving test was on a two-wheeler 150cc scooter, but the licence I received was for a four-wheeler heavy vehicle and all because I knew someone who knew someone and so on. After the fact, I never went beyond driving a two-wheeler because roads scare me but someone else could easily have done so, and they do, and if you’ve driven on Indian roads, you know what I am talking about. Now, let’s think of the last time you secured a driving licence out here in North America because you knew someone? Why do you think that is?
Bribery is rampant in India, and everybody from the street hawker to the CEO is corrupt, with few exceptions, and we are not talking about that minority here. At times the corruption is banal like a few currency notes to the Peon in an office gets you information of what time is best to visit an officer. No one gives a second thought to this action. It is regular, mundane, as frequent as urinating on the walls in public. Then there are those times when an entire housing complex is planned by Government in prime real estate area at, well, Government rates; millions of families invest their retirement money into this and are scammed because the development doesn’t go beyond the foundation stone. These people lose their life’s savings and no one is held responsible. They scramble to find answers but there is no one to answer their questions. Is the Law intervening? Not that I see. There is no fear of consequence, and hence the ethics of the individual is just as the crow flies. This example of the East is not to say that corruption doesn’t exist in the West. It does and at Enron magnitude but there is an associated fear of consequence and hence quite ingeniously masked.
Corruption is an obvious example of ethics. Now, if we think about the more subtle form of ethics, we step into the unknown. Recently with the Trump administration in play and the melee over banning Ivanka Trump’s products, I was suddenly aware of her existence. Now, I never paid attention to her style before but lately every time I pick a dress off the rack, it ends up being Ivanka, and the price is decent while the type is flattering. The prosaicness of the matter allows me to grab the dress and move without a second thought to what I contributed towards by doing that. Honestly, I do not know, but the point is that at the grassroots most of us do things without knowing what we are contributing to. It is legal, and so we do not give a thought to it. Most of us have bigger things to worry about like getting dinner ready and prepping the presentation for the meeting the next day. There are however those of us who are aware of what they are contributing to and the burden of the decision making knowing something is legal and will lead to a good payday but is not the right thing to do, is substantial.
I remember this dialogue from a movie I was watching the other day where a princess standing in the shade of an umbrella was talking to a spiteful worker farming in the hot sun asking her why she was saying hateful words about her. The farmer looks at her and says, “It is effortless to make promises with a full stomach and a shade over your head. Sleep on an empty stomach with a hungry baby and sweat under the sun working till your hands bleed and then promise as you mean it, and I’ll believe you.” It is something to think about. Integrity and ethics is not a characteristic for a regular day; everyone can be ethical when all parameters are controlled. Integrity comes into play when the parameters are altered when the reality changes when desire is replaced with necessity.
Read the other part of this Duolog(ue).
Right To or Right To
Ethics and Money have a complicated relationship. One is almost always in contention with the other. You follow one, and the other seems to abandon you; maybe not entirely but the estrangement is real.
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Real life ethical problems
Twice now in two days I was faced with ethical vs moral decisions. Its amazing how these decisions can be taxing on the psyche and self. Even when one may think that one is a confident decision maker when facing these moral vs. ethical decisions, it really does pose a tough problem.
These decisions have caused me to evaluate which action to pursue with seemingly three different minds. The ego drives me to react in one way, morals in another, and ethical standards in another. As a firm believer in the human race as a whole, over the satiation of a single ego, I lean towards the ethical routes.
Although one may think they are ethical. some situations that have been registered as negatively emotional easily interfere with the logical interpretation on a suitable course of action. The [prior] emotions cause one to be clouded in their logic centers. There seems to be a fight between the ego and logic; yet to brood over this fight is detrimental and unproductive. One must take quick action. As a skeptical philosopher, this poses a problem to myself.
To dislike a person for the wrong they have done to you, if by chance they come to ask a favor, this will pose a strong dilemma. On one hand, there is reluctance to help the person, but if the decision only indirectly benefits the favor-asker, and directly involves the well-being of another person, or follows along the lines of human ethical responsibility as whole, it is difficult to forego the emotional ego, and engage the disliked person, but to do so implements ethical value that one might hold so strong and dear. It is unethical to make others suffer due to the emotions towards another person.
On another note, does one perform a service because they feel bad for the person, or does one follow ethical guidelines and give everyone an equal and fair chance, regardless of situation? This is a difficult question to answer. As one person may benefit more from the result of one decision, it would be a biased decision in favor of your own self-ego and emotional influence. Or does one follow a strict ethical guideline and give each person an equal chance, even if the person with the most chance to benefit from the decision would benefit less from the decision than others?
To feel like a person “deserves” something is a subjective interpretation, and an empirical interpretation gives every potential recipient equal chances of benefiting from the decision. Emotions and subjectivity can be biased, and empiricism is neither biased nor subjective. Is ethics a subjective domain, or a scientific one? I tend to think ethics cannot be a scientific realm (so it is infused with subjectivity -ethics arises from the subjective perception of need).
How does one go about solving this (these) ethical dilemma questions? Is ethics an estimated best guess based on experience and subjective perception of “fairness”? What do you think? Should a person make decisions based on subjective need, or based on calculated equal fairness?
