Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Ethics, grade: 85%,
University of Strathclyde, 15 entries in the bibliography,
language: English, abstract: The origin of the word "ethics" is
derived from the Greek word "ethos," which, in a more precise
translation, might be better rendered as "image." The science of
ethics, as it became established in the eighteenth and nineteenth
century, was concerned with the search for absolute standards of
conduct guiding decisions and actions, and was closely tied to the
concept of duties derived from core values . Since ethics itself,
as moral philosophy, set out to establish generally accepted
standards of right and wrong, the word 'moral' became
interchangeable with 'ethics', although the former originally
referred to the act and the latter to the abstract principle from
which the act was derived. In the meantime, "being ethical or
moral" has come to imply conforming with specific (generally
acceptable) standards, whereby the initial agenda of establishing
universally applicable moral principles has been replaced by the
realisation that groups of people can also adhere to or deviate
from a set of their own ethical standards. From this, it follows
that such standards can be established by an individual, a
corporation or a nation to help or guide decisions and actions.
Schoen (1979 ) even sees the metaphors employed as vital to the
framing of issues, since these guide both what is deemed to be a
problem and the paradigms used in addressing them. This notion of
defining problems and paradigms is clearly applicable to managers
and leaders paid to make organisational decisions congruent with
the organisational culture, whereby the choices they have to make
may vary in terms of the perceived ethical solution selected from a
range of alternative solutions. A general central part of
management and organisations is its study of organisational
culture, although this has, as yet, only received minimal attention
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