PERSONAL ETHICS

CHAPTER - II
Content

 Introduction/Meaning
 Emotional Maturity
 Virtue of Humility
 Promote Happiness
 Karma Yoga
 Proactive
 Flexibility and Purity of Mind
PERSONAL ETHICS

Ethics is a category of philosophy that determines what an individual

Personalbelieves about morality and right and wrong. This is usually
distinguished from business ethics or legal ethics.
Personal ethics are the basic principles and values that govern
interactions among individuals.
PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL ETHICS

 Not to cause harm to anyother human being purposely

 To promote and demonstrate one’s ideals through his/her actions not
by forcing them on others
 To respect the ideas, lifestyles,religions and ideals of others
 To respect the property of others
 To promote through self-education, observation, reading,
conversation, and understanding of the world around us.
 Not to terrorise others
CODE OF ETHICS

 Be honest and sincere

 Have integrity
 Maintain fidelity
 Demonstrate a commitment to justice, with equal treatement of all.
 Care for others: Be kind
 Respect others in every way
 Obey just laws and protest unjust ones.
Why personal Code of Ethics is important?

 To know oneself
 To Deal with Others
 Strength
 Opportunities
 Goals
 Six Levels of Emotional Maturity

The Six levels of emotional maturity are presented from lowest to highest. However, the
interdependence of the levels of emotional maturity makes listing them from lowest to
highest somewhat artificial. The six levels are
 Emotional Responsibility
 Emotional Honesty
 Emotional Openness
 Emotional Assertiveness
 Emotional Understanding
 Emotional Detachment
 Level 1: Emotional Responsibility

When a person reaches Level 1 of Emotional Maturity, then he or

she realises that he or she can no longer view of his or her emotional
states as the responsibility of external forces such as people, places,
things, fate and spirits. He or she learns to drop expressions from his
or her speech that show this ownership of feelings and a helpless
attitude towards his or her feelings.
Level -2 Emotional Honesty

Emotional honesty means expressing your true feelings. To be

emotionally honest we must first be emotionally aware. This
emotional awareness is related to our emotional intelligence. It is
our emotional intelligence, combined with the necessary learning,
practice and experience, which gives us the ability to accurately
identify our feelings.
How Society Discourages Emotional
Honesty

 It takes emotional awareness, self-confidence, even courage to be

emotionally honest.
 This is because, in many ways, society teaches us to ignore, repress,
deny and lie about our feelings. For example, when asked how we feel,
most of us will reply "fine" or "good," even if that is not true. Often,
people will also say that they are not angry or not defensive, when it is
obvious that they are.
Level 3: Emotional Openness

 This level concerns a person’s willingness to share his or her feelings in an

appropriate manner and at appropriate times. Persons at this level
experience and learn the value of ventilating feelings to let feelings go,
and also the dangers involved in hiding feelings from self and others. Self
disclosure is important at the level of emotinal maturity
 At this level of emotional maturity, a person has the openness and freedom
to experience any emotion without the need or compulsion to suppress or
repress it
Level 4: Emotional Assertiveness

A person at this level of work enters a new era of positive and self
expression. Assertiveness is a skill regularly referred to in social and
communication skills training. Being assertive means being able to stand
up for your own or other people's rights in a calm and positive way, without
being either aggressive, or passively accepting 'wrong'.
Level 5: Emotional Understanding

Persons at his level of emotional maturity understand the actual

cost and effect processes of emotional responsibility and
emotional irresponsibility. Self concepts are understood and be
the problem interfering with emotional responsibilty. Because of
nature of knowledge and the formation of self concepts, such
people experience firsthand, that all self concepts contain their
opposites.
Level 6: Emotional Detachment

At this level, a person lives without the burden and snare of self
concepts, self images, self constructs, group concepts, group
things. Such a person is always aware of self as processed as
sensing being, as an experiencing being, as a living vesel, as a
unknowable and untrappable because self is alive and not static
or fixed
Virtue of Humility

 Virtue ethics focuses on individuals becoming imbued

with virtues.
 Humility is the quality or the state of being humble.
Virtue of Humility

Humility is
 Strength under control
 Choosing not to draw attention to self but highlighting the abilities of
others
 Open to the input of others
 Not defensive, Willing to take advice
 Self-controlled
 Confident in yourself but respectful towards others
PROMOTE HAPPINESS

 It is defined as, “continuous well-being, enjoyment of

life, complete satisfaction with one’s condition”
 Happiness formula:

“Letting Go + Acceptance + Gratitude = Happiness”

Six Factors to promote happiness

 Nurturing relationships
 Nurturing health
 Expressing gratitude
 Being kind to others
 Living in the present moment and finding joy
 Devoting self to goal
PROACTIVE

Proactivity is more effective than being reactive because it

allows a company more control and heads off crisis and
issues before they explode. It also mitigates any possible
damage that may arise from unforeseen events beyond the
company's control. Being proactive is truly the key
for business ethics
Proactively managing ethical challenges

 Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices

 Take responsibility broadly and reach for highest level
 Demonstrate respect for everyone all the time
 Celebrate positive ethical moments
 Don’t ever stop, Talk about ethics as an ongoing learning
journey
KARMA YOGA
Flexibility and Purity of Mind

 Flexibility of mind refers to the ability of mind to cope up

or adjust with the situation of varied needs.
Four traditional methods of mind purification is:
1. Jnana Yoga (Path of knowledge)
2. Raja Yoga (Path of Mind Control)
3. Bhakthi Yoga (Path of Devotion)
4. Karma Yoga (Path of Action)
Current Scenario in Ethics