ETHICAL & LEGAL

• Many people confuse ethical with legal.

• Legal is the word used to define anything that

concerns with the law or its workings

• Many of the existing laws have originated from

ethics while ethics is rooted in morals and the
perception of the rightness or wrongness of an
act or conduct.
 Sources of Ethics
• In general refers to a system of good and bad, moral
and immoral, fair and unfair.
• Code of conduct that is supposed to align behaviors
within an organization
• Primarily ethics is affected by three sources -:
• culture,
• religion and
• laws of the state.
• It is for this reason we do not have uniform or
completely similar standards across the globe,
organization and the social framework.
 Culture
• Culture is a pattern of behaviors and values that are
transferred from one generation to another.
• It is the culture
Predominantly determines what is wrong
and what is right.

that defines certain behavior as acceptable

and others as unacceptable.

• What was immoral or unacceptable in certain

culture became acceptable later on and vice
versa.
 LAWS

• Laws are procedures and code of conduct

that are laid down by the legal system of the
state.
• They are meant to guide human behavior
within the social fabric.
• The major problem that ethical expectations
cannot be covered by the law.
 RELIGION

• Oldest foundations of ethical standards.

• Varying influences across various sects of people.

• Ethics is a manifestation of the divine and so it draws a

line between the good and the bad in the society.

• Depending upon the degree of religious influence we

have different sects of people;
- orthodox or fundamentalists and
- moderates.
WORK ETHICS

Six Pillars of Ethics or Character at workplace.

1- Trustworthiness-- able to be trusted and believed. It
requires:
- honesty- No cheating and fraud
- Integrity - Consistent
- Reliability- avoiding excuses
- Loyalty - information confidentiality
2- Respect--- avoiding violence, dignity, tolerance

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WORK ETHICS
3- Responsibility—being in charge of the affairs

4- Fairness-- equality, impartiality

5- Caring-- concerned about the welfare of others.

6- Citizenship---- include behavior an attitude as a

part of larger community