For instance my ethical lens revealed that I am an independent worker who wants all the credit for the work that I do. So I may be directed more towards not working with a group on anything and taking the initiative to find the answers on my own. It also revealed that I may become a bit exhausted allowing me to use excuses to procrastinate when it comes to my academics. Critical thinking is influenced by my Ethical Lens in a couple tremendous ways. One way is because it shows my tools for analyzing problems is reasoning.
They include, taking responsibility for your actions, treat yourself and others with respect, be fair and honest. But they still leave much to be determined by the individual. What is Ethics? Merriam Webster defines ethics as “1) the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation, 2) A set of moral principles, 3) A set of moral issues.” Thus ethical standards are
Ethical Decision Making Paper James Bush CJS/211 8/24/2015 Michael Raneses Ethical Decision Making According to my Ethics Awareness Inventory Scoring Summary I learned my ethical profile is most closely aligned with obligation. I base my ethical perspective on what is morally right. I believe that ethical conduct appeals to “conscience”. I look to whether a person’s intent rather the results of the action. We choose how we act and what rules to follow.
I believe that people need good ethics to promote a healthy and positive environment for ourselves and others. I always assumed my personal ethical viewpoint is that everything should be equal and fair. After reviewing my Ethical Lens Inventory, it proved me right. I found that my preferred ethical lens is the Relationship Lens. I use my rationality to determine how I can ensure equality to all others.
Ethical Lens Peter Urrutia Gen200 September 19, 2012 Timothy Harrington Ethical Lens This course has encouraged the use of an ethics game that determines what an individual’s particular ethical outlook is. The ethical lens looks at a couple of specific categories preferred lens, blind spots, strengths, weaknesses, values, and results of behavior. This serves as a valuable tool to understand your outlook toward ethics as well as others outlook on you. My personal preferred ethical lens was the rights/responsibilities and relationship lens. According to the exercise this lens means that I use reasoning skills and universal rules that each person should follow along with fairness and justice.
The organization that I work for stresses HIPAA and violations of this will not be tolerated. Also in the section of Colleagues and Staff, there were numerous statements that hold true in reference to my ethical decision making, statements such as I maintain confidences entrusted to me, I believe if someone wants their business told then they should be the one to tell it. I also demonstrate through personal actions and organizational policies zero tolerance for any form of staff harassment, this is also in the organization’s policy and proceduresat really stood out was an example from the Colleagues and Staff section of the online assessment and it was the survey statements, “I foster discussions about ethical concerns when they arise” (ache.org). I try to always do these is a business setting and that I will bring up concerns to management or a respectable party that can guide the team in the right ethical
ETH/316 April 30, 2015 Leslie Freeman Critical Thinking and Ethics Critical thinking is an individual’s purposeful reflective judgement about what to believe or what to do in response to their observations and ethics is the rule of conduct recognized in respect to a particular group. It’s the basis of any decisions that we make on a day to day basis. The connection between critical thinking and ethics is that they both relate in observing and judging things. There are no general hard and fast rules regarding the application of ethics in various situations, which is especially pertinent considering the fact that what may be ethical in one situation may be considered unethical in another. In class some students stated they wouldn’t report a thief if he was stealing food, while others believed theft is wrong regardless of the circumstances.
In order to evaluate the claim that the possession of knowledge carries ethical responsibility, it is important to understand ethics and knowledge in the general sense To put it simply, ethics is moral philosophy, or rationalization of conduct as either right or wrong. Normative ethics is the study of determining a moral course of action. The two most prominent ethical guidelines are Kantianism and Utilitarianism. Immanuel Kant suggested that ethics revolve around duty, rather than emotions. All actions are related to an underlying principle.
According to Dictionary.com (2013), “Ethics is a system of moral principles; the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group or culture; moral principles, as of an individual; or that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.” There are factors that contribute to the development of personal ethics. Personal ethics drive your actions and emotions daily. The ethical principles you live your life by are not a traditional set of rules handed to you at birth. These ethical principles have grown and developed with you over time and many things influence how they are formed. Everyone is different whether good or bad because everyone has a different foundation on which they build his or her moral code.
To fully understand ethics we must first examine the meaning of values. According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, value is a measurement of importance we place on something (2011). Our personal values are the worth we bestow on whatever it is we have to make a decision about. Ethics, as defined by Merriam-Webster, deals with weighing what is good and bad while keeping in mind our moral duty (2011). To make