Reynaldo Marasigan                                                      IT-ETHICS                                              January 15, 2008

 

 

Book Review 4

 

Title:  Paradigms and Parables

 

          The ten commandments of Business Ethics

 

Author: Brother Louis DeThomasis, FSC

 

              William Ammentorp, Ph.D

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Chapter 3: The Parable of Ethical Action

 

 

            Groups of people, set apart from society, working together to attain social justice

 

... member of these groups who have made specific commitments to shared goals... a common code of action to which each member subscribes... walk the walks of ethical actions... If we wait for the rules to be written, we will be forever prohibited from making ethical decisions. Most of us on Wall Street already know what is "right"; we only have to let our intuition have its sway over our daily actions.

 

 

Isn't it right that here in our society rules, policies, regulations, laws or whatever it is are strictly imposed yet people violate it. These things are written in what we call constitutions we're all the people should follow and belief that it is right. However, the question is? Do these constitutions cover all the moral things that are happening? Maybe we should accept the fact that the constitution unfortunately cannot cover all. This time the issue about doing the things we believe is right yet we are stop by the restrictions but what is really moral to do. Our conscience is most of the time correct, we could act it right in an ethical moral, and we don’t need to wait for the written law instead if we believe that even we can determine that it is morally right.

 

 

People deviate because they want change. Some people give their commitments for the purpose of change people follow a constant rule for a change. It is for us people if we want change. Doing business with ethics is basically thinking what the right thing is even if it covers the moral of an individual. We have different beliefs, yet all of us have the tendency to get a 51% right, moral and ethical even if the 49% opposed.

 

 

Chapter 10: The Parable of the Gift: In Search of Extravagance

 

 

            We can talk about our collective efforts: we can attempt to move our corporations toward the achievement of economic justice; we can hope that our government of the world will see the futility of narrow nationalism. But ethical actions and social justice all come down to our behavior as individuals. Without individual commitment to these goals, no amount of institutional or group effort will achieve justice for those most in need. To deviate from these familiar pathways is indeed an extravagant gift.

 

 

 

The chapter talks about the norms, what is to be done? To creativity or the imitative to deviate from what is the culture makes us sometimes realize what the best to be done is. Yet our culture is affected by the different perceptions of people we can change, we can adapt to change and still we must be part of this change. Same thing in business the ability to create different products, or innovative products and services can make us more fruitful in our business especially considering the different ethical concerns of each part. As an individual we should be loyal on our commitment that we are here to serve and not to be serve to serve for the others. Our point of view of what is happening is part of the changing economy only if we voice it out. Our passion for our service to our community even if we are a normal person living in this society is a big part. The ability to serve, adapt change and be innovative is the greatest gift that you can give to the society. Give the extravagant gift of your commitment to social justice

 

 

Chapter 11: The Parable of Ethics: One World

 

 

Every choice of the unethical is just that. And these choices change the world, too. Clearly, the big moments in business raise ethical questions Decisions about new products, new plant locations, and new policies can be readily analyzed as to their impact on social justice. But concatenations tell us that the little decisions grow into big ones. And they count up to changed futures as they work through the human networks in the corporation and the community Remember: Peace and prosperity in all he worlds are created by ethical business process.

 

 

What is ethical? We can not determine things that are ethical if we don't know what is the unethical. To easily define ethical we must have the basis of being unethical. We cannot come up to a processes that is ethical if we could not practice being unethical. The purpose of this chapter is to tell us that our unethical judgments help determine what is ethical now a days. Our choice about the things that is ethical is based on the unethical. This experiences we have can help build a better society if we have the peace and prosperity in us within our businesses, within in ourselves.