Week #5, Prompted Post: Defining Ethics

When I was searching for ethics in business, articles, news, theories and definitions, I found this article in the web site of The New York Times, it is called " In Life and Business, Learning to Be Ethical". The article brings ethics to many perspectives: life, business, school, work, and daily activities. It highlight that people have unethical acts all the time and in many different situations. 

Focused in the business field, it mention forging numbers by the end of the day, not being honest when answering to a research, faking results and manipulating analysis. It truly happen all the time, every day, in every place and people are becoming unconcerned  about this acts and keep moving into this direction of being more and more immoral everyday.

From my part, I can state some acts that I have been doing now that are going to serve me as a base when I will be a professional and will have to deal with situations of people not being ethical and also of me thinking about the possibility of not being ethical:

- Avoid that people have unethical acts, and also when they have, do not keep quiet. Lat semester I was in a laboratory class and after a specific project we had to fill a report about how was the activities of all the members of the group, and as usual in a college assignment people do not care about their part and do not complete some activities. In this report I though about giving everyone a good feedback to the professor but by the end I realized that this was a very appropriate situation for me to report and unethical act, because the student that missed allowed me and other to do his part and did not even asked.

- Have a job during college make me understand how it is to have a job, a boss and rules to follow. 

- All the classes that I take in the university have as a base academic honesty. This will conduct me to always have a honest work.

- Having a roommate implicates respecting the other privacy, the way of thinking and also the cutler of the other.

Sources:

Tugend, Alina. "In Life and Business, Learning to Be Ethical". The New York Times. 10 Jan. 2014. Web. 12 Feb. 2014