Why is it important for civil servants to have integrity? What can be the consequences if a civil servant doesn't act with integrity?

Integrity means honesty and existence of no gap between one’s thought, speech and action.  It is loyalty to rational principles. It is important for a civil servant to have integrity for following reasons: Civil servants are bestowed with immense powers ..

"Professionals who fail to acknowledge their moral vulnerabilities, their propensity to ethical misconduct, are ticking time bombs — professional tragedies waiting to happen."(a)What do you understand by moral vulnerabilities? (b)Bring out the two moral vulnerabilities recognized by you in yourself. How do you think that you can overcome these moral vulnerabilities?

Moral vulnerability refers to vulnerability of one’s moral principles to human weaknesses. As human beings everybody has some weakness which may at times over-power his moral principles for example even a man who has high moral principles may have to ..

How dedication to public service can improve the efficiency and effectiveness in public service?

Dedication means quality of involving oneself completely or applying one’s attention, time to a particular activity, cause or a person. Dedication in public service is required as civil servants in India, a developing country need to perform the regular administrative ..

Consequentialist and Non-consequentialist Approaches to Ethics.

Consequentialism or teleological ethics is based on the premise that the morality of an action is contingent with the outcome of that action. This implies that morally right action produces good outcome and morally wrong produces bad outcome.  The consequences ..

We are driven by our values and constrained by our norms, not only by external factors. However, not all values are on the same footing. There are primary, secondary, and even higher order values.a)Bring out two primary values of your own. b)To what extent do you think there can be value conflicts when you are serving others?

Values form the external frame of an individual’s personality and determine their behavior, character and attitude. Values can be either personal or cultural. I will highlight one of my personal values, and one of my cultural values. One of my ..

"What we value guides not only our personal choices, but also our perceptions of the worth of others." What do you understand by this statement? Discuss

Values are those things that are important or valued by someone.  Values describe what is important in a person’s life.  Basically, they are the standards on the basis of which we evaluate something or make judgment about how desirable or ..

What do you understand by "value crisis"? Discuss various strategies for controlling value crisis in contemporary society.

Value crisis is when the practice of members of the society starts deviating from the values we hold dear. When there is a general acceptance of corrupt practices and unethical activities, then the society as a whole is in value ..

A recent Income Tax raid on a senior State functionary led to the unearthing of huge sums of unaccounted money and valuables. However there is also criticism emerging from several quarters in different State Governments that these raids are used as a tool by the Central Government to pressurize, intimidate and malign State Governments. Do you consider such raids to be unethical ? Should “public interest” reasoning be resorted to for obviating established procedure ?

When a raid is conducted, the main focus of the body conducting raid is to weed out the black money and corruption. With respect to raid, there must not be any sort of difference made on the basis of post ..

Point out the ethical dilemmas in clinical trials conducted in developing countries like India.

The increasing incidence of deaths during clinical trials in India raises ethical concerns. These trials often involve vulnerable populations, leading to questions about informed consent and exploitation. The ethical issues can be summarised as follows: Informed Consent: Participants, particularly from ..