CALICUT UNIVERSITY MBA FIRST SEMESTER

1. WELCOME
ETHICS, CULTURE AND VALUES
PRESENTED BY,
Shikhil mv

2. ETHICS
• Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy
that involves systematizing , defending, and
recommending concepts of right or wrong conduct.
• The term came from the Greek word “ ethikos ” which
is derived from the word ethos, which means “custom,
habit”
• Ethics is the branch of philosophy dealing with the
values relating to human conduct, with respect to the
rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the
goodness badness of the motives and end of such
actions.

3. THREE TYPES OF ETHICS
• Meta ethics, concerning the theoretical
meaning and reference of moral propositions,
and how the truth values can be determined
• Normative ethics, concerning the practical
means of determining a moral course of
actions
• Applied ethics, concerning what a person is
permitted to do in a specific situation or a
domain of action

4. DEFINING ETHICS
• Richard William Paul and Linda elder defines
ethics as “a set of concepts and principles that
guides us in determining what behaviour helps or
harms sentient creatures”
• The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy defines
the word ethics as “commonly used
interchangeably with morality and some times it
is used more narrowly to mean the moral
principles of a particular tradition, group or
individual”

5. OBJECTIVES OF ETHICS
• The primary objective is to define the highest
good of man and set a standard for the same
here we have to consider ethics deal with several
interrelated and complex problems which may be
psychological ,legal, sociological and political in
nature
• Making judgements upon human behaviour
based on these standards
• Prescribing moral behaviour and making
recommendations about how to behave or vice-
versa

6. NATURE OF ETHICS
• The concept of ethics deal with human beings
only. only human beings are endorsed with
freedom of choice
• The study of ethics has become a set of
systematic knowledge about moral behaviour and
conduct
• The science of ethics is a normative science.
Normative science judges the value of the facts in
terms of an idea, concerned with judgement.

7. CULTURE
• Culture is the sum of total of the learned
behaviour of a group of people that are
generally considered to be the tradition of
that people and are transmitted from
generation to generation
• Culture consists of abstract ideas,values and
perceptions of the world that inform and are
reflected in peoples behaviour

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
• Culture is abstract
• Culture is pattern of learned behaviour
• Culture includes attitude ,values, knowledge
• Culture is integrated system
• Culture is variable
• Culture is learned behaviour

9. FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE
• It defines situation
• It defines attitude ,values and goals
• It defines myth, legends and super natural
• It provides behaviour pattern

10. ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
• The values and behaviour that contribute to
the unique to the unique social and
psychological environment of an organisation
• It includes organizations expectations,
experience ,philosophy and values that hold it
together and is expressed in its self image,
inner workings and future expectations

11. VALUES
• Values are principles that allow us to guide
our behaviour to fulfil ourselves as individuals.
they are fundamental beliefs that help us
prefer ,accept and choose one thing over
another or a behaviour over another
• In a organization values serve as a frame work
for the behaviour of its members
• Values provide a guideline to formulate goals
and objectives, whether personal or collective.

12. IMPORTANT OF VALUES
• Values allow the members of an organization
to interact harmoniously
• In a company's organizational culture values
are the foundation of employee attitude
• Values guides our behaviour part of identity
• Show how to behave and how not to behave

13. TYPES OF VALUES
• individual values:- these are the values which
are related with the human development of
human personality or individual norms of
recognition and protection of the human
personality such as honesty ,loyalty , veracity
and honour

14. • Collective values :- values connected with the
solidarity of the community or collective
norms of equality, justice, and solidarity are
known as collective values
• Based on hierarchical arrangement
• Intrinsic values :- values related to goals of life.
sometimes known as ultimate and
transcendent values. determine schemes of
human rights and duties

15. • Instrumental values :- values come after the
intrinsic values in the scheme of graduation
values. these values are means to achieve
goals of life. they are also known as incidental
or proximate values