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Quality of work life-To nurture each other and feed off on each
other’s strength,Chittashudhi – Work should be purifying mind and
the heart- no feeling of regret, remorse or discontent,Works should
make you wise,And work should be towards public benefit,Work
must be in the spirit of Tyaag- giving up rather than lobh-
greed,Excellence and perfection in whatever you do Role of
scriptures like the Bhagvad Gita-Gita offers insights about how
moral values and ethics can be incorporated into work life,Verses
offering solution to managers facing ethical dilemmas – Nishkama
karma – “Do your duty, but do not be affected by the fruits of your
action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your
activities and never be attached to doing your duty”,“One who is
not disturbed in mind admits misery or elated when there is
happiness and who is free from attachment fear or anger is called a
sage of steady mind”- And it is this steady mind which helps us take
sound, ethical and impartial decisions,Detachment is that quality
which enables the individual not to accept anything for personal
gratification. Personal desires and conflict of interest leads to
unethical practices Based on 4 goals a human tries to achieve-
Dharma (rectitude righteousness),Artha (money & wealth),Kama
(desires & needs),Moksha ( liberation of spiritual
sense),Chakraborty as per the sanathan dharm says that all
individuals must aim and strive for a pure mind,Work must be
Nishkam, devoid of selfish or personal attachment,Balance between
practical physical goals and moksha must be achieved,Every person
must realise the inner inactive witness and silent self called Purush
& outer active, involved dynamic self called Prakriti. A balance
between the two must be achieved,If I am good and each one of us
is good then the world is good,No work is inferior or
demeaning.LEAD TO BUSINESS ASHRAM-Business should tend
to contract into small units rather than expand,Products should have
a longer life cycle to save from pollution,Localised decentralised
economic activities,This will result in reduced travel and saving of
carbon footprint,Employee relationship should be more cooperative
less adversarial,Owners should have a spirit of trusteeship,Search
for strategic advantage, strategic markets & global markets should
be abandoned for local needs for local markets,Long term loyalty
and gratitude to organisation should be the norm,Reduction in greed
and interpersonal rivalry should be replaced with values like sharing
& humility,Decisions should be taken based on values of ethics,
morality, ecology & environment and spirituality,In education
realism and idealism should replace careerism,Technology should
be accepted or rejected based on spiritual human standard
Business ethics is the application of general moral ideas that govern
the society, to business behaviour The set of principles which
govern the conduct of business at individual and collective level.
Principle of permissible harm-One may harm in order to save
more if and only if the harm is an effect or an aspect of the greater
good Utilitarianism-Morally right course of action in any situation
is one that when compared to all other actions, will produce the
greatest balance of benefits over costs for everyone affected. It’s
about the combined benefits and costs of an action as against to
combined benefit and costs to all other actions Moral right
characteristics-Can be violated even when no one is hurt –
Minimum wages,Are corelated with duties others have towards the
person with the right – Right to work,Provide individuals with
autonomy and equality in the free pursuit of their interests,Provide a
basis for justifying ones action and for invoking the protection or
aid of others,Moral rights focus on an individual unlike Utilitarian
ethics which focus on society RIGHTS-Contractual or special
rights require that people agree and keep their commitments..Are
created by specific agreements,Require publicly accepted rules on
what constitutes an agreement and what obligations these
agreements impose,Highlight the special rights and duties imposed
by accepting a role or position in an organisation or
institution,Requires the parties know what they are agreeing to,
without coercion or duress, without misrepresentation and without
an immoral act. Justice based on needs & abilities: Socialism-
Work should be distributed according to people’s abilities and
benefits should be distributed according to people’s need,A way of
community, family type, caring for other living,Illiterate will do
manual labour, but will get more subsidies,But no relation to the
amount of effort and amount of remuneration- so no incentive in
putting greater effort,We are selfish so will community family type
work?,Will individuality die out?,The role of central agency or
government becomes stronger.,Substitutes paternalism for
individual freedom PRINCIPLES-Atmanomokshartham jagat
hitayacha, Trikaranasuddhi: To consider work as a means to grow
oneself in purity and unity of Thought, word & Deed. Not just
physical and materialistic growth but spiritual growth,Yagnaya
charatha karma: To engage in work as a sacred offering. To treat
work as a process, not an end. VALUES-Value or Guna are states
of feeling or emotions that underpin the content of a choice/decision
and determine the manner of using the intellect/reason for justifying
and implementing that choice or decision