Objectives of human values and professional ethics
To understand the moral values that ought to guide profession and to find a solution to address moral issues in the profession
To justify the moral judgment concerning the profession
To foster a set of beliefs, attitudes, and habits that engineers should display concerning morality
To bring an awareness on human values and professional ethics
To encourage for inculcating the Moral Values and social responsibility
To follow the fundamental duties laid down by constitution of India
Human Values
Types of Values: The six core human values are:
Right conduct
Peace
Truth
Love
Nonviolence
Discipline
1. Right Conduct
Encompasses the following values such as
2. Peace
Encompass the following values such as: Attention, calmness, concentration, contentment, dignity, discipline, equality, equanimity, faithfulness, focus, gratitude, happiness, harmony, humility, inner silence, optimism, patience, reflection, satisfaction, self – acceptance, self – confidence, self – control, self – discipline, self – esteem, self – respect, sense control, tolerance, and understanding.
3. Truth
Encompasses the following values such as: Accuracy, curiosity, discernment, fairness, fearlessness, honesty, integrity (unity of thought, word, and deed), intuition, justice, optimism, purity, quest for knowledge, reason, self – analysis, sincerity, spirit of enquiry, synthesis, trust, truthfulness, and determination.
4. Love
Encompasses the following values such as: Acceptance, affection, care, compassion, consideration, dedication, devotion, empathy, forbearance, forgiveness, friendship, generosity, gentleness, humanness, interdependence, kindness, patience, patriotism, reverence, sacrifice, selflessness, service, sharing, sympathy, thoughtfulness, tolerance and trust
5. Non – Violence
Encompasses the following values such as:
Psychological: Benevolence, compassion, concern for others, consideration, forbearance, forgiveness, manners, happiness, loyalty, morality, and universal love
Social: Appreciation of other cultures and religions, brotherhood, care of environment, citizenship, equality, harmlessness, national awareness, perseverance, respect for property, and social
6. Ethics
Ethics is the word that refers to morals, values, and beliefs of the individuals, family or the society. The study on ethics helps to know the people’s beliefs, values, and morals, learn the good and bad of them and practice them to maximize their well-being and happiness. It involves the inquiry on the existing situations, form judgments and resolve the issues. In addition, ethics tells us how to live, to respond to issues, through the duties, rights, responsibilities, and obligations.
Professional Values
1. Integrity
Integrity is defined as the unity of thought, word and deed (honesty) and open mindedness. It includes the capacity to communicate the factual information so that others can make well- informed decisions. It yields the person’s “peace of mind”, and hence adds strength and consistency in character, decisions, and actions. This paves way to one’s success. It is one of the self-direction virtues. It enthuse people not only to execute a job well but to achieve excellence in performance. It helps them to own the responsibility and earn self-respect and recognition by doing the job. Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. It is generally a personal choice to uphold oneself to consistently moral and ethical standards.
2. Credibility& Responsibility
The obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for the demand to disclose the results in a transparent manner. It also includes the responsibility for money or other entrusted property.
3. Loyalty
Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause. Philosophers disagree on what can be an object of loyalty as some argue that loyalty is strictly interpersonal and only other human beings can be the object of loyalty.
4. Commitment
Commitment means alignment to goals and adherence to ethical principles during the activities. One should have the conviction without an iota of doubt that one will succeed. Holding sustained interest and firmness, in whatever ethical means one follows, with the fervent attitude and hope that one will achieve the goals, is commitment. It is the driving force to realize success. This is a basic requirement for any profession. The commitment of top management will naturally lead to committed employees, whatever may be their position or emoluments. This is bound to add wealth to oneself, one’s employer, society, and the nation at large. Target oriented efforts are put to reap efficiency.
5. Attitude
It is a psychological construct, a mental and emotional entity that inheres in, or characterizes a person. They are complex and an acquired state through experiences. Attitudes is the most distinctive and indispensable concept in present day. Attitude can be formed from a person’s past and present. Key topics in the study of attitudes include attitude measurement, attitude change, consumer behaviour, and attitude-behaviour relationships. Positive attitude people are most successful in their life. One should develop such attitude which provides synergy and satisfaction in their day to day life. Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) characterizes faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness and good common sense.
6. Valuing Time
Time is rare resource. Once it is spent, it is lost forever. It cannot be either stored or recovered. Hence, time is the most perishable and most valuable resource too. This resource is continuously spent, whether any decision or action is taken or not. The history of great reformers and innovators has stressed the importance of time and valuing time. The proverbs “Time and tide wait for nobody” and “Procrastination is the thief of time”. Time management is the key to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.
7. Passion
Passion is a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for completion of the work. Passion defines performance enhancing aspects and work enjoyment. When an individual is passionate about their occupation they tend to work more resulting in more work satisfaction.
8. Identifying
one’s role in larger picture Cultivating the skill of big picture thinking is important. When one maintains big picture it allows one to Lead, keeps one on target, promotes teamwork, gain insight from different people and makes one ready for the change