Personal Ethics Development

Kera Moore

PHL/323

September 8th, 2014

Edward Peet

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Personal Ethics Development

Ethics is defined as, "The principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or organization" (Treviño & Nelson, 2011, p. 17). Personal ethics focuses on ones morals, beliefs, and values that many gain from family values, customs, and beliefs as they grow up. This paper will focus on personal ethics development that examines my personal ethical systems, and ground rules. It will focus on the developmental aspect and define the underlying ethical system with the primary concepts, and sources that shapes my ethics. Finally, it will describe what effects ethics has on my work performance, and provide my personal experience while showing why ethics is important to individuals, organizations, and society.

Ethical Systems

The process of finding, and maintaining additional knowledge, skills, and experience to develop ones abilities, principle and to satisfy ones potential is known as personal development.

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The Ethical Slut

It starts at an early stage in life, and is an unending process that can be influenced by peoples culture, their background, and environment. There are different types of ethical systems: duty-based, entitlement-based, goal-based, humanistic, relativistic, and rights-based. Ones personal ethical system falls under relativistic. This is considered the personalized approach. "It is subjective and focuses on personal experience as a form of judgment, and many different factors play a role in determining how a person uses this system" (University of Phoenix, 2013, para. 10). This particular type of ethical system has the perspective view that different groups of people ought to have different ethical standards for evaluating acts as right or wrong. For example, "What's right for you may not be what's right for me!" There are no absolutes within...