ETHICS AND

VALUES

Dr. Annie Jenifer M

Assistant Professor, VIT
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• Age: 14
The business: Braigo Labs offers low-cost Braille printers to help the visually impaired. The
latest model uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to automatically print text from a website and translate it
into Braille.
In 20 years, I will be … “In the field of a merge between technology and medicine. Surgical
procedures with robotics or human health would be great for me.”
• Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran, two brothers from Chennai who
founded a software firm called GoDimensions.
Smoking
• Each day, nearly 6,000 children under 18 years of age start
smoking; of these, nearly 2,000 will become regular
smokers. That is almost 800,000 annually
• Approximately 90 percent of smokers begin smoking
before the age of 21.
• If current tobacco use patterns persist, an estimated 6.4
million children will die prematurely from a smoking-related
disease
• Tobacco use in adolescence is associated with a range of
heath-compromising behaviors, including being involved in
fights, carrying weapons, engaging in high-risk sexual
behavior and using alcohol and other drugs
Alcohol
• The Drug Strategy Household Survey found that 77.8 per cent
of 12–17 year olds attempts to have alcohol.
• It also found that 1.4 per cent of 12–17 year olds drink weekly
• Among the 18–24 age group, 28.7 per cent drink weekly
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 Importance of ethics and values
• Satisfying Basic Human Needs: Every employee desires to be
such himself and to work for an organization that is fair and
ethical in its practices.
• Creating Credibility: An organization or a person is believed to
be driven by moral values is respected in the society even by
those who may have no information about the working and the
businesses or an organization.
• Uniting People and Leadership: Common thread that brings
the employees and the decision makers on a common platform.
This goes a long way in aligning behaviors within the
organization towards achievement of one common goal or
mission.
 Importance of ethics and values
• Improving Decision Making: A man’s destiny is the sum total
of all the decisions that he/she takes in course of his life.
Decisions are driven by values.
• Long Term Gains: Organizations guided by ethics and values
are profitable in the long run, though in the short run they may
seem to lose money.
• Securing the Society: Often ethics succeeds law in
safeguarding the society. The law machinery is often found
acting as a mute spectator, unable to save the society and the
environment. Technology, for example is growing at such a fast
pace that the by the time law comes up with a regulation we
have a newer technology with new threats replacing the older
one. Lawyers and public interest litigations may not help a great
deal but ethics can.