Ethics in industry is the same principle everyone was taught growing up. Whether a factor of personal moral or common law, it is important to value these ideas for appropriate conduct. Ignoring such important standards, companies such as Enron see disappointing consequences. The workplace is exposed to a countless amount of ethical decisions and situations.
Our reading this week, Chapter 5 of TCT, suggests that ethical decision making creates several pressures in the workplace. People are forced to make common unethical decisions because of possible failure, a need to survive, or consecutive bad decision making. These issues can cause an individual to make unfair judgments or taking risks.
Generally, our decision to research renewable energy for our White Paper Project was partly due to the question of conservation ethics. The critical status of our current environment is an important subject. Do to the abundant consumption of natural gas, the undesired pollution it creates, and ultimate deterioration of our ecosystem, it is important to research possible alternatives.
Ethics can be directly related to our current class project, the White Paper Project. Largely, the teamwork component holds a great deal of ethical questions. And the main category of ethics that govern most team interaction are the social values. Because social values are typically shared among most people, it is important to satisfies these needs before personal and conservation ethics. Here, the text divides social ethics into four subcategories: rights, justice, utility, and care. It is important to first establish the equal rights and equivalent justice of every team member. Utility is an important concept our group participates in during our decision making. Before continuing with any suggested material, our group comes to a collected decision. Care is a principle we also share among our group. Our initial division of labor caused some concern of work load. For example, is the Gannt chart maybe too much work for one individual to complete? If at any point one person in our group feels it is too overwhelming to complete their task, everyone asks if they can assist.
Ethics in Groups
I think that what you said in your second paragraph about pressure effecting people’s decisions is very true. There can be many different sources of these pressures in the world out there but people still need to know how to make the right decision and stick with it. I had similar views on the presence of ethics when working in groups. As you said, there must be equality throughout the group in order to keep the group together and functioning like it should. Since we are in the same group for this white paper I’m glad we feel the same way about what ethics need to come into play to create a good group environment where everyone is treating fairly.
Human and Industry Ethics
In your first Paragraph, ethics in industry is the same as everyone was taught while growing up stood out in my mind. Most places of business are like people in my opinion. I find that there are some business that really stick to their morals and some they stray. I find this to be similar in humans. For some people they care mainly about themselves and give up certain morals to advance, no matter the cost. It is the same in companies were they are willing to overlook certain restrictions so they can meet their quarterly budget. Overall, similar ethics can be seen in humans and industry.
Zebulon Rouse
Business Ethics
I think it would be quite nice if businesses generally made ethical decisions over profotiable decisions but I don't think that's the case. Even if a business starts out like that, at some point the greed for a higher profit margin will lead the decision makers in he business to lean towards payoffs than ethics. That is why we should have laws that enfoce certain ethics. The rest is up to the company. However, if a company goes steps its boundaries, they could have problems with PR.