I was managing in an office that worked in social services, I’d witnessed many ethically gray behaviors in my previous time as an employee, and I wanted to get advice from an expert on how to approach ethical quandaries as a supervisor. Although some of the trainings so far had been tedious (I’m looking at you Contracts), I was looking forward to Ethics.
Shortly after I became a manager, I had to attend a number of required trainings. But I know there are those who struggle deeply with the idea that someone would do good things or try to behave with kindness towards others without the influence of religion.Īnyway, my point is I’m going to talk about being ethical, and moral, and I’m doing it without any religious affiliation. I still believe in being a good person, regardless. I’m personally agnostic, so have never had an issue with understanding morality to be a separate entity. There’s also the tendency in our culture to conflate morality with religion. Personally, my ethics and morals are so interconnected and interlinked, that for me, talking about one is talking about both. If we’re so scared of an individual word that we have to tapdance around it, we’re not really talking about it. I’ve found articles online where the authors argue that we shouldn’t even use either term in the workplace, because people can get stuck on the word instead of focus on the discussion.īut I think this highlights part of the issue of not discussing these ideas at work. By definition, in way oversimplified terms, ethics are supposed to be more driven by an external source, and morals by an internal.
**At this point, I should make a disclaimer that I have a tendency to use morals and ethics somewhat interchangeably.
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