ETHICS & VALUES

Integrity
• Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising
adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
• In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.
• In ethics when discussing behavior and morality, an individual is said to possess the
integrity if the individual's actions are based upon an internally consistent framework of
principles.
• One can describe a person as having ethical integrity to the extent that the individual's
actions, beliefs, methods, measures and principles all derive from a single core group of
values.
• Our integrity is an integral part of who we are and what we stand for. It means to stand up
for what you believe – what you believe is the right thing to do.
• Moral integrity refers to the unity, which is a consistency among our attitude,

emotions & conduct

• Integrity create an enthusiasm among the individuals for achieving excellent

performance in their job

• Maintaining integrity is possible only with the attitude of compromise

Work Ethics

• A work ethic is a set of moral principles a person uses in their job.

• Work ethics include not only how one feels about their job, career or vocation, but also

how one does his/her job or responsibilities.

• This involves attitude, behavior, respect, communication, and interaction; how one gets

along with others. Work ethics demonstrate many things about whom and how a

person is.

• Work ethics are a set of standards and rules that are required by an individual for

satisfactory work performance.

• Work ethics have two types:
• 1. Personal (i.e. Sincerity, respect for the job, regularity, punctuality, seriousness)
• 2. Specific to a work situation – Keeping certain information confidential –
Maintaining cordial relation with clients and agencies – Being prepared to take
up new tasks
Characteristics of Work Ethics
1. Attendance 6. Productivity
2. Team Work 7. Communication Skills
3. Attitude 8. Respect
4. Organizational Skills 9. Appearance
5. Cooperation 10. Character
 Service learning
Service learning refers to learning the service policies,
procedures, norms, and conditions, other than ‘the
technical trade practices’.

The service learning includes the characteristics of the

work, basic requirements, security of the job, and
awareness of the procedures, while taking decisions and
actions.

It helps the individuals to interact ethically with

colleagues, to effectively coordinate with others, to interact
cordially with suppliers as well as the customers, and to
maintain all these friendly interactions.
Civic Virtue
 Civic - relating to a city or town, especially its administration
 Virtue - behavior showing high moral standards.

• Civic virtue is morality or a standard of righteous behavior in relationship to a citizen's involvement

in society. An individual may exhibit civic virtue by voting, volunteering, organizing a book group, or
attending a PTA meeting

• Civic virtue helps people understand their ties to the community and their responsibilities within it

• Without an understanding of civic virtue, citizens are less likely to look beyond their own families,
friends, and economic interests. They are less likely to help others in the community, to volunteer
their time, to give money to nonprofit organizations, or to participate in a group that benefits
society
RESPECT FOR OTHERS
This is a basic requirement for take care of friendship, team work, and for the synergy it promotes and
sustains.

The principles are:

1. Recognize and accept the existence of other persons as human beings, because they have a right to
live, just as you have.

2. Respect others’ ideas, words, and labor.

3. Appreciate colleagues and subordinates on their positive actions. Criticize constructively and
encourage them.

4. Show ‘goodwill’ on others. This will facilitate collinearity, focus, coherence, and strength to achieve
the goals.
 Living peacefully
• One should have conductive environment and working condition to do his job and carry
out his responsibilities
• There should not be any tension or over pressure
• One cannot work effectively under a knife all the while hanging over his head.
• The workers should have peaceful atmosphere at office as well as home
• If the person are not carrying out their duties in a peaceful atmosphere, unwarranted
behaviours will naturally come into force.
Caring
• Caring is a process which exhibits the interest in, and support for, the welfare of others
with fairness, impartiality

• It includes showing respect to the feelings of others, and also respecting and preserving
the interests of all others concerned.

• Caring is reflected in activities such as friendship, membership in social clubs and

professional societies, and through various transactions in the community
 Sharing
• Sharing is a process that describes the transfer of knowledge, experience,
commodities and facilities with others.
• Sharing is voluntary and it can not be driven by force, but motivated successfully
through ethical principles.
Honesty
Honesty is a virtue, and it is exhibited in two aspects namely,
(a) Truthfulness and
(b) Trustworthiness
Truthfulness is to face the responsibilities upon telling truth – quality of being honest
Trustworthiness is maintaining integrity and taking responsibility for personal performance – reliable / dependable

Honesty is mirrored in many ways.

The common reflections are:
(a) Beliefs (intellectual honesty).
(b) Communication (writing and speech).
(c) Decisions (ideas, discretion).
(d) Actions (means, timing, place, and the goals). and
(e) Intended and unintended results achieved.
Some of the actions of an engineer that leads to dishonesty are:
1.Lying – giving wrong information to the right people

2. Deliberate deception - judge or decide on matters one is not familiar or with insufficient data or
proof, to impress upon the customers or employers

3. Withholding the information - hiding the facts during communication to one’s superior or
subordinate, intentionally or otherwise

4. Not seeking the truth - Some engineers accept the information or data, without applying their mind
and seeking the truth

5. Not maintaining confidentiality - It is giving right information to wrong people

 COURAGE
Courage is the tendency to accept and face risks and difficult tasks
in rational ways. Self-confidence is the basic requirement to nurture
courage.

Courage is classified into three types, based on the types of risks,

namely

(a) Physical courage,

(b) Social courage, and
(c) Intellectual courage.

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• In physical courage, the thrust is on the adequacy (capability) of the
physical strength, including the muscle power and armaments.

• The social courage involves the decisions and actions to change the
order, based on the conviction (belief) for or against certain social
behaviors.

• This requires leadership abilities, including empathy and sacrifice, to

mobilize and motivate the followers for the social cause.

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• The intellectual courage is introduced in people through acquired

knowledge, experience, games, tactics, education, and training.

• Facing the criticism, owning responsibility, and accepting the

mistakes or errors when committed are the expressions of courage.

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VALUING TIME
• Time is rare resource. Once it is spent, it is lost for ever. It can
neither be stored nor be recovered.

• Time is the most perishable and most valuable resource too. This
resource is continuously spent, whether any decision or action is
taken or not.

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 COOPERATION
• It is a team-spirit present with every individual engaged in
engineering.

• Co-operation is activity between two persons or sectors that aims

at integration of operations (synergy), while not sacrificing the
autonomy of either party.

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• Further, working together ensures, coherence, i.e., blending of
different skills required, towards common goals.

• Cooperation promotes collinearity, coherence ,co-ordination and the

synergy.

• Cooperation should exist or be developed, and maintained, at several

levels; between the employers and employees, superiors and
subordinates, organization and customers and among the
colleagues.
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The obstacles to successful cooperation are:
1. Clash of ego of individuals.
2. Lack of leadership and motivation.
3. Conflicts of interests, based on region, religion, language, and caste.
4. Ignorance and lack of interest.

By careful motivation, leadership, fostering (development) and

rewarding team work, training on appreciation to different cultures
‘cooperation’ can be developed and also sustained.

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 COMMITMENT
Commitment means alignment to goals and
adherence to ethical principles during the
activities

It refers to ‘sharing of loyalty’ to the moral principles that are

inherent in the engineering practice.

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• It is the driving force to realize success.

• This is a basic requirement for any profession.

• When the teacher is committed to his job, the students will succeed in
life and contribute ‘good’ to the society.

• The commitment of top management will naturally lead to committed

employees, whatever may be their position or emoluments.

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 EMPATHY
• Empathy is sensing what others feel about, without their open talk.

• Empathy begins with showing concern, and then obtaining and

understanding the feelings of others, from others’ point of view.

• It is also defined as the ability to put one’s self into the

psychological frame or reference or point of view of another, to
know what the other person feels.

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To practice ‘Empathy’, a leader must develop, the following characteristics

1.Understanding others
2. Service orientation
3. Developing others

In developing others, the one should generate the ‘listening skill’ first.

The benefits of empathy include:

1. Good customer relations
2. Harmonious labor relations
3. Good vendor-producer relationship
 SELF-CONFIDENCE
• Certainty in one’s own capabilities, values, and goals, is self-
confidence

• The people with self-confidence exhibit courage to get into

action and unshakable faith in their abilities, whatever may be
their positions.

• They are not influenced by threats or challenges and are

prepared to face them and the unexpected consequences.

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The self-confidence in a person develops a sense of partnership, respect,
and accountability, and this helps the organization to obtain maximum
ideas, efforts, and guidelines from its employees.

The people with self-confidence have the following characteristics:

1. A self-assured standing

2. Willing to listen and to learn from others and adopt (flexibility)

3. Frank to speak the truth, and

4. Respect others’ efforts and give due credit

The factors that shape self-confidence in a person are:

1.Heredity (attitudes of parents) and family environment (elders)

2. Friendship (influence of friends/colleagues)

3. Influence of superiors/role models

4. Training in the organization

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Character
It is a characteristic property that defines the behavior of an
individual.

Character includes attributes that determine a person’s moral and

ethical actions and responses.

The character is exhibited through conduct. Character is determined

by the expectations of society.

Character implies certain unity of qualities with a recognizable

degree of constancy (faithfulness) in mode of action.

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SPIRITUALITY
• Spirituality is a way of living that emphasizes the constant awareness and
recognition of the spiritual dimension of nature and people, with a dynamic
balance between the material development and the spiritual development.

• Spirituality includes creativity, communication, recognition of the individual as

human being , respect to others, acceptance, vision

• Spirituality is motivation as it encourages the colleagues to perform better.

• Tolerance and empathy are the reflections of spirituality.