Question

From a relativistic viewpoint, discuss with appropriate examples whether culture plays a role in ethical conduct.

Answer 1

Culture means the values and norms that decide how people should behave and interact.

A recent study of 3000 employees in US confirms that the degree to which employees behave depends on the culture of the organisation.Culture is essential to determine the beaviour and to avoid the possibility of failure of the organization.

Cooperation is necessary to avoid conflicts when people share among each other. Standards are important and integral part of any culture.

Having a ethical goal is necessary for every organization. Culture is itself a goal.It gives a meaning to itself.

Culture determines how people should interact, and relates to one other.A proper ethics to be followed in any organization should base on the culture the organization follows.

Different organization have different cultures and different cultures have different rules of conduct. Some culture view certain ethical level practices with different level of condemnation.

Culture plays a huge role in ethical conduct.

Cultural ethics deals with morality,integrity and principles and values of culture also in some case religion.

Cultural ethics also deals with values and morals of a society and thus it also a vital role in the governance of the society.

Culture is an integral part of ethics and vice versa.

Every organization should have actively developing steps to culturally different persons. There should a constant set of behavior that need to be followed and that comes together in the system or for those professionals to work effectively in cross cultural sectors.

There should be an integration and transformation of knowledge of people into various systems and policies of the organization used in appropriate cultural settings to increase the quality of services to produce better results.

An example of different cultures in different countries are the French and Americans have different views on whistle blowing. Americans consider it as a natural part of the business whereas the French considers whistle blowing as undermining solidarity among workers.

Newspaper in the US contains stories highlighting the unethical behavior. The incident represents the individual or organization misconduct where an ethical framework is not followed.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in US is the source of glaring comparison. US companies in the worldwide operations are forbidden to engage in activities that are illegal in the US.