Ethics and Core Values

3. MORALS
VALUES

7. ETHICS IS ABOUT CHOICES
Good Ethics  Right Choice
 Bad Ethics …?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference
Robert Frost

8. Unsportsman-like
conduct…
15-yard penalty!!

11. Defining Ethics…
“ On matters of style,
swim with the
current,
on matters of principle,
stand like a rock.”
- Thomas Jefferson

12. Embracing Ethics…
This kind of thinking landed Jefferson’s
likeness on our currency. Don’t be too
quick to downplay the value of ethics.

13. Considering Ethics…
Ethics is:
 a system of moral principles: culture of a company.
 the recognized rules of conduct and/or practices in respect to a
particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.:
medical ethics; legal ethics.
 moral principles, as of an individual:
”I can not tell a lie” – G. Washington
 philosophy dealing with values, as they relate to human conduct; to
the rightness and wrongness of certain actions; to the goodness and
badness of the motives and ends of such actions:
“The end justifies the means” – Machiavelli
“ Golden Rule”- most cultures and religious systems

14. What Ethics Is
Putting The Pieces Together
“Looking At The Choices”
• Ethics has a place in everything we do … and
affects the outcome by how we chose to do
• Ethics IS all about understanding our choices
and “doing the right thing for the right reasons”

15. What Ethics Is
Putting The Pieces Together
In dealing with ethics, we must make a choice. We
have two we can choose from- both have
consequences:
1. Choose good ethics
2. Choose bad ethics
Ethics is about choices.
 Do we consistently try to do the right thing, all the
time?
 At a deeper level “ can you do the right thing even
when it doesn’t “personally benefit you?”

16. You Get to Choose!

17. It’s the ripple effect…

18. ...it doesn’t stay where it started.

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