HUMAN VALUES & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

HUMAN VALUE &PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Human Values & Professional Ethics

Unit 5

Professional ethics: (UPTU-2018-19)

 

·      Professional ethics means to develop professional competence with ethical human conduct.

·      Ethical human conduct is the foundation of professional ethics.

·      Ethical human conduct means definiteness of human conduct.

·      The only effective way to ensure professional ethics is through correct appraisal and systematic development of ethical competence in the professional (the human being).

·      Profession is a significant domain of human activity targeted towards participating in the larger order which includes the society and nature around. Thus, it is a meaningful participation for each one in one or more of the five domains of human endeavor needed for a harmonious society.

·      Ethical conduct of profession implies the right utilization of one’s professional skills towards the fulfillment of comprehensive human goal and thus, meaningfully participates in the larger order. Professional ethics may be defined as a form of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment.

·      Professional ethics concerns the moral issues that arise because of the specialist knowledge that professionals attain, and how the use of this knowledge should be governed when providing a service to the public.

·      To be able to achieve this, it is essential to develop the value competence or the ethical competence in the human beings.

 

Competence in professional ethics: (UPTU-2018-19)

The development of ethical competence is a long-term process to be achieved through appropriate value education. The competence in profession will only be the manifestation of ones right understanding.

The silent features characterizing the competence can be summarized as below…

1.   Clarity that comprehensive human goal: samadan -samridhi  -abhay -sah-astitva, and its fulfillment through universal human order.

2.   Confidence in oneself: based of right understanding of oneself and existence

3.   Mutually fulfilling behavior with human being – clarity & confidence in ethical human conduct and its correlation with sustainable happiness & prosperity – HUMAN FRIENDLY

4.   Mutually fulfilling interaction with rest of nature – self-sufficiency in fulfillment of physical needs, i.e. the ability to identify the needs & to produce/obtain more than the needs through avartansheel (cyclic – mutually enriching) production – ECO FRIENDLY

 

Issues in professional ethics: (UPTU-2018-19)

 The unethical practices are rapidly increasing, and their impact is also becoming far reaching. Corruption in multifarious manifestations is affecting all the professions like a virus. similar lily, other unethical practices are also proliferating and getting out of control.

Ø Corruption in multiple forms and at various level.

Ø Tax evasion, misappropriation and misuse of public funds

Ø Cutthroat competition

Ø Adulteration and spurious production

Ø Endangering the health and safety of public at large.

Ø Hoarding and over-charging etc.

 

Definiteness of ethical human conduct: (important)

 

The right understanding gained through self-exploration also enables us to identify the definiteness of human conduct which may also be called the ethical human conduct.

 It is the same for all human beings. So, we are also able to understand the universality of ethical human conduct which is in consonance with the universal human values Each one of us wants to in consonance with the universal human values. Each one of us wants to have a definite conduct but presently we may not be able to ensure that. This is because we are presently living based on our pre-conditioning or assumptions which are not in consonance with the truth or the right understanding. But this situation neither gives satisfaction to us not to others. We do see the human beings struggling to find out what the right conduct is and, in the process, exhibiting a wide variety of attributes. We also see people debating endlessly about what they consider to be ethical.

But unless we have the right understanding, we are not able to identify the definiteness of ethical human conduct.

 

 It can be understood in terms of the following:

1.   Values (Mulya): Competence of living in accordance with universal human values or the participation of a unit in the larger order- its natural characteristics or svabhava is known as values. Values are a part of our ethical conduct.

 

2.   Policy (Niti): policy is the decision (plan, program, implementation, results, evaluation) about the enrichment, protection and right utilization of the resources (self, body and wealth – mana, tana and dhana).

 

 

3.   Character (Charitra): The definiteness of my desire, thought and selection gives definiteness to my living. Definiteness of character is the outcome of the definiteness of my behavior and work.

 

Vision of a universal human order? 

Universal human order (sarvabhauma vyavastha) is a feeling of being related to every unit including human beings and other entities of nature. Having understood the comprehensive human goal, we are able to be in harmony not only with human beings, but also with the rest of the nature. We can see that we are related to every unit in nature and ensure mutual fulfillment in that relationship. On the bases of understanding of harmony, we get the notion of an undivided society and universal human order.

The universal human order will comprise of:

1.      The five dimensions of human endeavor (education, health etc.) towards a fragmented society.

2.      The steps of organization from family to world family, each anchored in right understanding will integrated in the following way:

Family =>cluster=>village=>community=>village- cluster=>world family

 

implications of value-based living at all four levels of living? Explain. (UPTU 2009-10) (UPTU 2018-19)

ANS. The implications of value-based living can be studied in the following terms:

1. At the level of the individual – Transition towards happiness and prosperity will take place at the individual level. It will instill self-confidence, spontaneous joyfulness, peace, contentment and bliss in the self, and perseverance, bravery and generosity in living of the individual.

2. At the level of the family - Mutual fulfillment in relationships, prosperity in the family, sustenance of joint families, family as the building block of societal order in place of law enforcing bodies, respect for all without differentiation on the basis of age, gender, caste, race, money, post, creed, etc.

3. At the level of the society – Fearlessness in the society, holistic systems for education, health, justice, production, exchange and storage, harmony between nations, world growing as a family.

4. At the level of nature – Co-existence of all units in nature, earth getting more and more suited for sustenance of all entities on the globe, balance of seasons, proper development

 

 

COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN GOAL

·      IN every individual: RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

·      IN every family: PROSPERITY

·      IN society: FEARLESSNESS

·      IN nature: CO-EXISTENCE