GE8076 -PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING UNIT NOTES UNIT I HUMAN VALUES 10 Morals, values and Ethics – Integrity – Work ethic – Service learning – Civic virtue – Respect for others – Living peacefully – Caring – Sharing – Honesty – Courage – Valuing time – Cooperation –Commitment – Empathy – Self confidence – Character – Spirituality – Introduction to Yoga and meditation for professional excellence and stress management

1. P1WU
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2. UNIT – I : TOPIC 11 : COURAGE
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3. COURAGE
• Courage (also called bravery, bravado or valour) is the choice and
willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty or
intimidation.
• Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship,
death or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act
rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal,
discouragement, or personal loss.
AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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4. COURAGE
• Tendency to accept and face risks and difficult tasks in rational ways.
• Self-confidence is the basic requirement to nurture courage.
• Three types:
• Physical courage
• Social courage
• Intellectual courage
• Look before you leap.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
SEMESTER – VIII
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5. COURAGE
• The organizations prefer employees who have courage to deal with ethical
issues.
• But unfortunately, the scams and scandals across the Globe is the loud
evidence of lack of Professional moral courage (PMC) amongst employees.
• The lack of PMC causes moral distress due to value-conflict, impacting the
employee’s efficiency.
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6. COURAGE - characteristics
• Perseverance (sustained hard work)
• Experimentation
• Involvement
• Commitment
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7. COURAGE
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8. COURAGE
• “Moral courage is a means to triumph over fear through practical
action.
• Knowing professional obligations and personal values is not the same
as communicating and acting on those obligations and values.
• The space between knowing and acting is bridged by moral
courage.”(Lachman, 2007).
• This kind of courage can be termed as PMC. PMC is “a competency
exercised in the workplace as managers face ethical challenges with a
moral response” (Sekerekaetal, 2009).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
SEMESTER – VIII
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9. COURAGE
• “This form of courage is an applied capability of ethical strength and
has been described as having the intention to engage in moral action
in the course of doing one’s job.
• Demonstrating professional moral courage means that, despite the
potential for adverse personal consequences (including negative
emotions, risk, difficulty or threat to self) an employee displays
fortitude to pursue a moral path when faced with a dilemma”
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
SEMESTER – VIII
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10. COURAGE
• the four core personal skills that build PMC as ‘moral muscles’. The
four moral muscles are emotional signalling, reflective pause, self –
regulation and moral preparation.
• Emotional signalling refers to encryption of internal emotional cues
about unethical circumstances.
• Reflective pause is to taking time out to consider the cause of
emotions, identifying ethical issues and discerning options.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
SEMESTER – VIII
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11. COURAGE
• Self-regulation implies regulating or controlling the timing and the
way to act and Moral preparation is practicing a thought to overcome
ethical challenges.
• The ‘moral muscles’ or ‘personal skills’ infers that individual’s
personality is the mediator of PMC.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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12. COURAGE
• The factors like self-assurance, self-efficacy, social competence and
empathy are important to exhibit moral courage.
• The high self-assurance affects the perception of difficulty of the
situation and hence facilitates moral courage.
• Hence, a variety of dispositional variables have been shown to play a role in
moral courage.
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13. Professional Moral Courage
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14. Any Questions?
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