HOW HIGH ARE OUR ETHICAL STANDARDS?
What would you do in the following
situations?
1. You know the taxi fare from your home to the airport is $64. You
have paid it before, you know it is the correct fare. This time the taxi driver
asks for $32. What would you do?
2. You are dining in a restaurant and you
ordered four dishes and the waiter brought all four but by mistake, billed you
for only three. What would you do?
3. Your best friend is terminally ill and
you are a life assurance salesman. They needed $100,000 worth of insurance. No
one knows and no one can find out that your friend is dying. Would you write
the policy?
You cannot legislate ethics. What advice would you give to your
children under the same circumstances? Is your behavior conforming with the advice
you would give your children in the same situation? We start learning ethics
right after birth and all through our lives. Can we change ethical behavior?
Yes, we need ethical training.
WHAT AFFECTS ETHICS?
- Greed
- Fear
- Pressure
Pressure
to perform does not justify unethical acts. To be treated fairly is not the
same thing as being treated equally.
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