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Business and Ethics do not go together - Group Discussion

Rajmeet Ghai 06-12-2012 05:23 AM

They say that Ethics is knowingthe difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. It is true that morals

and values differs for an individual, concerns come in our professional lives. When people at work pressurize you to things, often we

ignore our ethics.

For:

- In todays situation with immense pressure and competition, business and ethics cant go together.

- A couple of times because we follow ethics, it hinders us from succeeding because it squanders time.

- Ethics are usually bound and nurtured by religion, family values etc. Such forms cannot work well in business where you are

expected to be professional and practical.

- A businessman should know how to handle pressure, stress and competition and not how to be ethical.

- We all want to make quick money. In todays market, being ethical takes a toll on you.

- Ethics unlike a balance sheet dont have visibility. People today judge you based on money and not ethics.

Against:

- Ethics makes you stronger and independent. People cant deceive you easily.

- Not following ethics makes you a selfish person.

- There is nothing wrong in making profit. But, making profit by unethical means could cost a lot of people harm, mentally.

- Customers perspective is to link with a company with ethics and values. They know that will never be forged.

- Being ethical in business creates a sense of responsibility towards society.

Morals and values are extremely individualistic. Its incorrect to say that you cant succeed if you are ethical in business. You will

probably take some more time to succeed. You cant force someone to follow ethics.

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Ethics should be taught alongside other subjects in school.

Success is very much driven by one's ethics. Ethical values have their importance in every sphere of our life. It isalways important to practice good ethics from the formative age. We should instill ethical values into our habit toreap permanent benefits. We all spend quite a lot of time in school during our early age, so it is the best place to

emulate good habits.

For

Ethical values are losing ground because of greed and violence. Also, there is a confusion between ethical and unethicalbehaviors. Beginning the ethical education at the dawn not dusk of our lives makes sense and school is the best place toinculcate such values. Not having such class in the curriculum is not doing any good. Students know how to earn but don'tknow how to live and behave in society. Ethics class won't be a formulaic affair, it will just deal with those values andbehavior that are acceptable in society.

Against

-Ethics can't be taught. They have no standard definition. Ethics mean different things to different people. Some think it isobeying rules and laws while others relate it to religious affairs etc.-The best teacher can teach ethics by just being.-Schools already have vast syllabus to cover and they should stick to their core area.-Ethics are not taught explicitly in the schools but there are many moral stories in English and Hindi subjects that areembodiment of ethics.-We are already being taught in school the importance of non violence, acceptability of sharing and unacceptability ofbullying etc.-Every school has its discipline to be followed by student, we just need to communicate the importance of discipline in ourlives and not just force them to follow.

Conclusion

Although it is a great idea to have ethics class in school, but we already have so many moral building activities in schoolthat extra class of ethics sound so boring. Ethics can't be taught explicitly, they can only be passed on through variousactivities like sports and other team work activities. We have all these activities in abundance in all schools.

RE: Ethics should be taught alongside other subjectsRajani Sharma 12-14-2013 06:09 AM

For:

- Teaching ethics alongside other subjects in school is a great suggestion by Aga Khan.- Today if we will within our society, we will find that ethics is crumbling in every sphere of life, from politics to sports,medicine to police, marriage etc. It is need of the hour.- There are many confusions relating to ethical behaviour versus non ethical behaviour. And this confusion can be clearedby teaching ethics to the honest and impacting fresh minds. Childhood is the best time for any education.- Today, we are trying to have a good music, science or maths teacher for our children, then why not a good ethicaleducation too.- We have rich literature on moral ways. Then why to deprive our children from such learning which will make them abetter person in future.- Indias young generation is the future of Nation. Thus, with other teaching they should be taught moral values which willguide them to lead their nation in a right direction.- Due to our present system which is filled with greed and violence, we loosing on ethical values. This makes it altogethera very crucial thing to be taught in schools so that future of the nation makes a better society, free from greed andviolence.- School is the best place to inculcate ethical values in children at younger age.- Today students are taught how to earn their living but they are not taught the how they have to earn that living or whatvalues they have to follow to earn their living.

Against:

- Ethics cannot be taught in schools as they dont have set of standards to be followed.- It can only be taught by being an example of it and not by teaching chapters of Ethics book in classrooms.- Ethics has different equations for different people. For example: for some people ethics means knowing the differencebetween what is right and what is wrong. And for some people it is following their religious beliefs. To others it may be

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obeying the laws.- Ethics as a subject is not required in the curriculum as we find many stories in Hindi and English subjects which areembodiment of ethics which teaches us the moral values in life.- Ethics is a discipline which should be communicated to the students and should not be forced to follow.- In a diverse country like India, it would not be easy to include commonly acceptable ethics in the curriculum.- Children already have crowed curricula which dont require any addition of ethic class.- School conducts extra curriculum activities which includes moral building activities. The extra classes on ethics would be

boring for students.- Addition of Ethic as a subject will add the burden on the young shoulders of students. As it will increase the weight oftheir bags.