The document discusses professional ethics and universal human values, emphasizing the importance of value education in fostering essential morals and character in individuals. It highlights the need for harmony within oneself, family, society, and nature, detailing various components of value education and their implications. Professional ethics are framed as applied ethics that enhance competence and ethical behavior within business environments.

1. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
and
UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES
Prepared by:
Dr.KGK Patnaik
Associate Professor, MBA Dept.
VIIT, VISAKHAPATNAM

2. Universal Human Values-II
• Value Education: Meaning
Value education is the process of fostering essential
values and morals in individuals in order to help
them develop a strong character and become
responsible members of society. It is a holistic
approach that encompasses an individual’s
cognitive, affective, and behavioural aspects in
order to develop their personal, social, and moral
values

3. Objectives of Value Education
• Instilling values
• To build character
• Fostering critical thinking
• To promote social harmony
• Encourage positive behaviour
• To enhance personal growth

4. Components of Value Education
• 1. Character Education
• 2. Health Education
• 3. Social Education:
• 4. Environmental Education

5. Harmony in the human being
• We are human beings; and we need to first
understand ourselves. So, what is a human being?
The proposal is that human being is co-existence of
the Self and the Body. Self is what we term as ‘I’ and
Body is what we see with our eyes. To understand the
two realities, we can start by looking at the needs,
activities and response of the Self and the Body

6. Harmony in the family
• Harmony is usually identified as a human value,
referring to compatibility and accord in
feelings, actions, relationships, opinions,
interests, etc. It denotes a state of balance
among forces influencing and even opposing
one another.

7. Harmony in the family
• Feelings (values) in relationship:
• 1. Trust (foundation value)
• 2. Respect
• 3. Affection
• 4. Care
• 5. Guidance
• 6. Reverence
• 7. Glory
• 8. Gratitude
• 9. Love (complete value)

8. Harmony in the society
• Connecting with Others
Overcoming Differences and Disagreements
Giving Back to Others
Maintaining Your Own Sense of Harmony

9. Harmony in the Nature
• Nature as Collection of Units Nature is the
collection of all the units – the air, soil, water,
plants, trees, animals, birds, other human
beings and even things that are at a distant
from us like the sun, the moon, the other
planets, etc.

10. Harmony in the Nature
• Classification of Units into Four Orders Although the
units are innumerable, they can all be classified into
just four orders:
• 1. Physical order – this includes units like air, water,
metal and so on.
• 2. Bio order – this includes grass, plants, trees, etc.
• 3. Animal order – this includes animals and birds.
• 4. Human order – this has human being only.

11. Implications of the Holistic Understanding – a
Look at Professional Ethics
• Values
• Policy
• Character

12. Values
 Values in self
 Values in Human
 Values of a Human Being in its Participation in
Universal Human Order
 Values of Human Being in the Interaction with
the Rest of the Nature

13. Policy
– Economic Policy :The policy for enrichment of
wealth
– Political Policy : The policy of protection of body
and wealth
– Policy for Universal Human Order :The policy for
right utilization of mind, body and wealth.

14. Character
• Chastity in conjugal relationship
• Rightful production, acquisition and
utilization of wealth
• Kindness in behavior and work

15. Implication of value based living
• At the level of the individual
• At the level of the family
• At the level of the society
• At the level of nature

16. Professional ethics in the light of right
understanding
• Professional ethics means to develop
professional competence with ethical human
conduct.
• Professional ethics may be defined as a form
of applied ethics that examines ethical
principles and moral or ethical problems that
arise in a business environment.

17. Competence in professional ethics
• Clarity about comprehensive human goal
• Confidence in oneself
• Mutually fulfilling behavior
• Mutually enriching interaction with nature