Personal Values

PERSONAL VALUES
MGT/521
3/28/2011

PERSONAL VALUES
ethical motive (2011), according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the science of morals; the department of believe concerned with the principles of human duty. This definition is particularly interesting in that the use of the word science is misleading. Defining and evaluating ethics has been a subject of great discussion since Plato. In order for groups to be viable within the human race, certain rules must exist. At the very base of these rules are ethics guidelines governing actions establish upon agreed-upon definitions of right and wrong. Determining whether a person or a persons actions are ethical is very subjective. As Yukl (2006) said, [t]he final evaluation can be influenced as more by the qualities of the judge as by the qualities of the leader. Obviously ethics are less a science of morals than a philosophy of rules.
After taking the Ethics Awareness Indicator, I was presented with results that, in my honest opinion, were a fairly close delegacy of my ethical office. The EAI uses a set of 24 questions to assign a perspective to the test-taker along the following lines:
(C)haracter this perspective focuses on what it is to be good as foreign to do good.




(O)bligation the obligation perspective is about intentions what person intends to do.
(R)esults with results, the focus is on the consequences of actions.
(E)quity is more of a postmodern approach that is more about equality, individualism, social progress, ecumenic reason, and absolute truths.
The EAI survey determined that I am close closely aligned to character. The assessment is accurate on a number of levels. For instance, according to the EAI, if asked to judge a persons actions as ethical or not, I look former(prenominal) their actions and examine the individuals character. This is a true painting of my approach. People are the sum of their whole as opposed to being defined by an individual action. In the...If you demand to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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