Showing posts with label VALUE and ETHICS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VALUE and ETHICS. Show all posts

Describe the Various Levels Where the Crisis is Felt in Contemporary Indian Society. Discuss the Concept of “Code of Ethics” for professionals.





News about India's booming economy is hard to miss these days. This is especially true because all  sectors of economy – from IT to agriculture - have grown. Yet, the profits from this growth-have not been shared equally - and many people feel marginalized. As Sundeep Waslekar writes, the country is facing a profound value crisis.
India is actually divided sharply into three economies.

      1) India's Three Economic Tiers :
               The Business Class economy – consisting of the people who from the market for consumer durable, cars, mobile phones and credit cards - comprises only 10 million households, or 2% of the country's one billion population
The Bike economy - comprising another 20% of the population - consists of people on periphery of the market, with the purchasing power of its constituents limited to television sets, telephones and housing with basic amenities.

      2)  The Periphery :
               The 2% elite cannot sustain themselves forever, surrounded by 98% periphery. It is not a question of inequity. Almost every Western country has 2% or 5% or 10% of wealthy citizens. But there, they constitute the periphery, whereas the heartland is made up of a large middle class.
To have 2% elites is normal. To have them at the core — rather than the periphery of the nation — is not sustainable.

     3)   The Implications of Growth... :
               The issue of sustainability has not found a place in the Indian public debate. Globally, too, sustainability is still defined mainly in ecological terms. Until the 1960s,  Growth was never questioned.
In the last 40 years, the West has understood the limits to growth. It has initiated a project to balance relations between human beings and the environment. It is yet to realize the need to balance relations among human beings.

     4)      ...and the Forces of Greed :
There is no doubt that the fabric of humanity is being torn apart by forces of greed. Terrorist groups and their state sponsors — personalize this force. But there is another side of the story - grievances.
For economists in planning commissions and corporate headquarters, economics is business. For India's poor masses, economics is life.

      5) Omnipresent Poverty :
Poverty, for the poor, is measured not in terms of statistical indicators, which may provide evidence of improvement.
Poverty is measured in terms of their ability to meet socially defined expenditure. Poor people feel poor not only when they consume less than 2,500 calories a day.

      6) Rigid Class Divisions :
They also do so when they see a minister's daughter hosting a lavish wedding — not because of her own accomplishments, but because of her father's control over the public treasury.
Poverty is then seen as a result of absence of power. Those who are born in power-endowed families tend to be rich.
Those with less power-endowment tend to be poor, however competent they may be.
Investment reforms are introduced so that colas and perfumes can be availed of easily by the endowed segments of the society.

     7)  A Demand for Violence :
              Land reforms are aborted half way, so that those who are really competent may not eventually overtake those who are merely born in the right families.
India's conflicts are still limited to a few parts of the country. There is a lesson to be learnt from neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal.

     8)    Extremism Along India's Borders :
Monopolists' control of agriculture, the creation of classes of a privileged few in cities — through expansion of the state sector and the capture of political institutions by a few — has generated a demand for violence.
In Afghanistan, warlords of today and Taliban of yesterday woo the dejected youth, as all Qaeda will do again tomorrow. In Pakistan, clerics use latent frustration to create battalions of religious extremists.
In Nepal, the Maoists produce ideological extremists. Different names. Different forms — but the same underlying dynamics. India need not look too far to understand the implications of the neglect of the periphery for the sustainability of the core.

     9) Disintegrating Value and Ethic Codes :
But there are plenty of borne-grown factors limiting the development of India's full potential. Corruption per exists everywhere.
There are two issues: Profits and acceptance. Violation of ethics and justice proves to be profitable, at least in the short run.
A hard-working farmer barely earns        1,000 rupees      ($20) per month. A usurer of food items in Mumbai or New Delhi makes at least 100 times as much.
If the farmer does not sell his produce through government monopolies, he is punished. If a usurer is arrested by the police, the higher authority releases him. In theory, values are a matter of philosophy.

     10) Corruption Equals Economic Gains :
In practice, values are a matter of economics. The character of a nation is judged by the values that are profitable in it.
As human beings by nature try to gain, they prefer values which enable them to earn profits. India has run into ethical deficit because it is not profitable in today's India to follow ethics and justice.

     11)The Spiral Wheel of Extortion :
A breach of ethics destroys the level playing field. It works against honest people, since their competitors can win by unfair means. Moreover, those who amass wealth by crooked means tend to display it.
As they host bigger and bigger parties -  in more and more expensive designer clothes, at larger and larger houses, with smaller and smaller mobile phones in their pockets - the teenager from the slum next door feels restless.
Since he cannot inherit an industry, he sets up an extortion racket. He discovers that he can command even greater fame, inspiring many others to follow. In this culture, every boy wants to be a don and every girl a beauty queen.

1   12) Only a Recent Trend :
               Forty years ago, ethics still mattered. As a child, the most popular story I heard was that of a poor schoolboy who stole a neighbor's gold chain. His mother patted him affectionately, as she could now buy him good clothes and food.
The boy went on to steal bigger things. As he graduated from one level of crime to another, he finally attained skill in big time robberies.

     13)   Uniting the Ideal and the Practical :
               Every today, those who behave without integrity are few in our large nation of more than a billion. Unfortunately, those who tolerate them and applaud them are many more. That is why India  In a crisis of values. And as for childhood stories, they are replaced by heroic tales of underworld dons.
The supporters of an unethical way of life defend it on the grounds of pragmatism, even though they may believe in India's core values.
The Indian mind is seized with a conflict between the ideal and the practical. What is ideal is not considered practical — and vice versa. India's future depends upon its ability to establish a unity of the ideal and the practical.
Excerpted from Frank-Jorgen Richter and Pamela C.M. Mar's (editors) "Asia's New Crisis: Renewal Through Total Ethical Management" Copyright 2004 John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pvt Ltd. Used by permission of the publisher.
An ethical code is adopted by an organization in an attempt to assist those in the organization called upon to make a decision (usually most, if not all) understand the difference between 'right' and 'wrong' and to apply this understanding to their decision.
The ethical  code therefore generally implies documents at three levels:  codes of business ethics, codes of conduct for employees and codes of professional practice.
A code of business ethics often focuses on social issues. It may set out general principles about an organization's beliefs on matters such as mission, quality, privacy or the environment. It may delineate proper procedures to determine whether a violation of the code  of ethics has occurred and, if so, what remedies should be imposed. The effectiveness of such codes of ethics depends on the extent to which management supports them with sanctions and rewards. Violations of a private organization's code of ethics usually can subject the violator to the organization's remedies (such as restraint of trade based on moral principles). The code of ethics links to and gives rise to a code of conduct for employees.

Describe of an idea of value spectrum at a good life.



Idea of Value Spectrum at a Good Life:

Ethical Value System :
A value system refers to how an individual or a group of individuals organize their ethical or ideological values. A well-defined value system is a moral code.
One or more people can hold a value system. Likewise, a value system can apply to either one person or many.
   A personal value system is held by and applied to One individual only.
   A communal value system is held by and applied to a community/group/society.
     Some communal value systems can take the form of legal codes or law.

      a) Corporate Value Systems :
The expert group like Fred Wenstop and Arild Myrmel have proposed a structure for corporate value systems that consists of three value categories. These are considered complementary and juxtaposed on the same level (if illustrated graphically on for instance an organization's web page). The first value category is Core Values, which prescribe the attitude and character of an organization, and are often found in sections on Code of conduct on its web page. The philosophical antecedents of these values are Virtue ethics, which is often attributed to Aristotle. Protected Values are protected through rules, standards and certifications. They are often concerned with areas such as health, environment and safety. The third category, Created Values, is the values that stakeholders, including the shareholders expect in return for their contributions to the firm. These values are subject to trade-off by decision-makers or bargaining processes.

      b) Value Judgment :
Value Judgment is a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something, based on a particular set of values or on a particular value system.
Value judgments are statements of subjectivity, which might be compared to axioms in mathematics and geometry - for instance, Euclidean geometry is founded upon a different set of axioms than various forms of non-Euclidean geometry, and thus postulates true in one geometry may not be applicable in another geometry (or vice versa).  Such postulates are in many ways analogous to value judgments that declare something to be right within one value system but wrong within another. Conceptually it is related both to the anthropological axiom "cultural relativity" (i.e. that cultural meaning only exists in a context) and "moral relativism".
For this reason the term can be used both in a positive sense, signifying a judgment that must be made taking a value system into account, or a disparaging sense, signifying a judgment made by personal whim rather than rational objective thought.
On the other hand, value neutral is a related term, signifying that a matter is considered to be objectively so, and not dependent upon values or ethics. For example, a weapon might be considered value neutral in the sense that without humans and a context it is of itself neither good nor bad.
  
      c) Values :
Each individual or culture has certain underlying values that contribute to their value system. Values are subjective and may vary across people and cultures.

Let us try to discuss various values:

Personal Values :
The personal values evolve from experiences with the external world and can change over time.  Integrity in the application of a value refers to its continuity; persons have integrity if they apply their value appropriately regardless of arguments or negative reinforcement from others. Values are applied appropriately when they are applied in the right area.  For example, it would be appropriate to apply religious values in times of happiness as well as in times of despair.
Thus, personal values are implicitly related to choice; they guide decisions by allowing for an individual's choices to be compared to each choice's associated values. 'Personal values developed early in life may be resistant to change. They may be derived from those of particular groups or systems.  Such as culture, religion, and political party. However, personal values are not universal; one's genes, family, nation and historical environment determine one's personal values. This is not to say that the value concepts themselves are not universal, merely that each individual possess a unique conception of them.

Cultural Values :
Groups, societies, or cultures have values that are largely shared by its members. Members share a culture even if each member's personal values do not entirely agree with some normative values sanctioned in the culture.  This reflects an individual's ability to synthesize and extract aspects valuable to them from the multiple subcultures they belong to.
If an individual expresses a value that is in serious conflict with their group's norms, the group's authority may carry out various way of stigmatizing or conforming the individual.  For example, imprisonment can result from conflict with social norms that have been established as law or rules and regulation of a country.

Overview the concept of professional ethics Discuss about the ethical issues and responsibilities of an engineer.




(a) Engineering Profession has a great responsibility in society. All Engineers get their education in Engineering Colleges and Universities at a much subsidized rate of tuition fees compared to the huge expenses incurred by the Government and the country in setting up engineering colleges, buying equipment, furniture, instruments, audio visual gadgets, faculty and staff expenses, library, transport, invited professors from abroad etc. Compared to this huge cost of infrastructure, the rate of tuition fees, though recently hiked considerably, is insignificant. Therefore it remains a fact that Engineers get k  education at a much subsidized rate of tuition fees which is mainly borne by the institution and the country and hence the Engineers as professionals owe some return to the country and society which they should bear in mind and they should follow the value and ethics which is demanded by them.
(b) There has recently been a value crisis in the society including the jobs done by Engineers. For example if we take the cases of Civil Engineers building residential houses, undertaking road construction and constructing huge bridges on untamed rivers, the importance of values, morals and ethics came in the profession in various ways e.g.
(1) the security factor in bridges (2) the water leakage from the roof of houses.
(c) The water seepage through walls, developing cracks in roof and walls due to use of wrong or inferior quality of cement, use of less quantity of cement, poor quality brick, defective iron rods, angles, channels, back stays etc. thereby reducing the strength and increasing the risk in living in those houses or using those buildings. Therefore the values and ethics in engineering profession remain a very important parameter and all engineering professionals should keep this mind.

Case Studies

     (1)     Government Revenues and Professional Ethics :
               Govt. Revenues are imposed to impart social justice, earn money for the exchequer for distributing products and services, benefits and securities to offer defense to the country and Nation. No doubt there will be innumerable cases of professional rivalry, competition and battle of wit among the different Government authorities and the large number of individual a and corporate level tax payers.

     (2)     Mittal - Arcelor Deal :
                Mittal, a steel tycoon from India, has proved his professional sense of value and ethics when ultimately Mittal was able to take over Arcelar, a steel giant of Europe, in the teeth of terrible fight amongst other bidders of the world. If Mittal group would not have been professionals ethical, showing basic values of business, Arcelor company would not have gone into the deal.

     (3)    America’s Iraq Attack and Subsequent Happening:
              The whole world including a considerable part of population of USA has raised their voice against American's attack of Iraq.  This is mainly because USA brought few charges against Iraq i.e. (a) Manufacture of weapons of Mass destruction (b) Killing a large number of people of a particular community and section (c) Discrimination against sale and marketing of petroleum oil to various countries of the world.
Though USA could not prove any of the charges, ultimately on grounds of killing innocent people, the leader of the country was executed yielding place to new leadership elected through democratic means.
From the point of view of policies as a profession, removal of a tyrant and dictator with the tacit support of United Nations have been accepted by the world.
America's argument that they did not start any unethical practice, it was some foreign terrorist group who destroyed huge assets of USA by creating terror and killing a large number of Americans and other citizens of the world.  USA justified this action and demanded that the action was fully ethical.

Discuss about whistle blowing. State of the factors involved in this process. Write down how to the manage whistle blowing.





Whistle blowing is the voluntary release of non public information, as a moral protest, by a member or former member of an organization outside the normal channels of communication to an appropriate audience about illegal and/or immoral conduct in the organization or conduct in the organization that is opposed in some significant way to the public interest.
Whistle blowing, as in sports, indicates a temporary stop either for some big achievement or an offence done by one or a group of players.
In professional ethics some authorities or some organizations may blow whistle to stop and protest against unethical behavior or actions which may cause harm to the society, nation or even individuals. In professional field a lot of large activities are undertaken on a global level, be it purchase of arms and amenities, construction of huge airports, seaports, or Railway headquarters or building giant residential complexes, sports stadium or mammoth shopping malls.  And in such deals there is always scope for unethical practices which help one company, group or country to win over other depriving them in spite of their other superior claims.
Whistle blowing should in such cases be done by authority like United Nations, WTO, Commonwealth Secretariat or international commercial cum political groups like Saarc, Nafta, Sapta, etc.

Ethical Justification of Whistle Blowing :

The ethical justification of whistle blowing might seem to be obvious in view of the laudable public service that whistle blowers provide — often at great personal risk. However, whistle blowing has the potential to do great harm to both individuals and organizations.
The negative case against whistle blowing is given vigorous expression in a widely cited passage from a 1971 speech by James M. Roche, who was Chairman of the board of General Motors Corporation at the time:
Some critics are now busy eroding another support of  free enterprise — the loyalty of a management team, with its unifying values of cooperative work.  Some of the enemies of business now encourage an employee to be disloyal to the enterprise.  They want to create suspicion and disharmony, and pry into the proprietary interests of the business. However  this  labelled - industrial  espionage,  whistle  blowing  or  professional responsibility — it is another tactic for spreading disunity and creating conflict.
As per this remark indicates the main stumbling block in justifying whistle blowing is the duty of loyalty that employees have to the organization of which they are a part. The public service that whistle blowers provide has to be weighed against the disruptive effect that the disclosure of information has on bonds of loyalty.

Briefly discuss any five problems of man-machine interaction. What do you mean by limit of growth? What is technology transfer?

Five Problems of Man-Machine Interaction: -

In this age of mechanization the man-machine relationship governs a lot of parameters for.

A. Higher production.

B. Better quality.

C. Better maintenance of machine.

D. Better system of operation.
E. Alteration of machine design for comfort in operation.

F. Updating the machine to adopt present day raw material and recipe.

G. Updating the design to modernize the specification and make them more universal.

H.  To make the machine cheaper.

I. To make the operation simpler.

J. To make the machine more versatile.

K. To make the machine produce different products of diverse application, large and
small size, different material of construction all simultaneously.

L. The attitude of the man and the satisfaction of the worker can be changed and
improved.

Limit of Growth:-

The second half of the twentieth century showed a great rise in economic growth and life style in almost all countries of the world, in fact over 180 countries of about 200countries under the United Nations have improved treme-rabigly-ArtlieeYdThri-he twentieth century came the globalization which has given a big opportunity to all countries to utilize each other's resources with proper planning and through WTO. With the rise of living standard the resources position started becoming scanty and scare in most of the countries except for some resources which are non-renewable, only some agricultural products are renewable that also is not the case with generation and production of wood and timber. USA alone with 5% of world population consume over 30% of the world's resources. Like this Russia, China, japan, India, Korea, Taiwan, along with all small developing countries like some African and Middle East countries, some South American countries are also consuming steel, cement, petroleum etc. as well as FMCG products like bread, butter, tooth paste, biscuit, etc. All these taken together the
net result is the shortage of resources already felt which is likely' to be further deteriorated.
This will mean two things:

1. Either man will have to slow down their pace of growth , or
2. They have to go on innovating, creating and producing newer and newer materials fast as they are depleted.
            None of the above two proposals is very easy to follow as the humanity, at large, by pressure of circumstances is unlikely to agree to slow down the pace of economic growth as that would create many other problems.
On the other hand innovation and recreation of energy, mineral and plant and animal resources require continuous research and development engaging huge high quality manpower, huge investment and instead of systematic research, they may have to depend on serendipity i.e. sudden and unexpected miraculous invention of new products and services.
              This will compel man in course of the first century of the third millennium to accept a limit of growth of economy of the world as a whole. This will on the one hand offer food, clothing and shelter to humanity and reduce the luxurious life style using air conditioner, luxury cars, jet aircrafts for uneconomic flights, high quality and highly expensive social functions etc. This according to Prof Galbraith, an authority on economics and one time American Ambassador to India, is known and termed as "limits to growth".


Technology Transfer:-

Technology Transfer, also called Transfer of Technology (TOT) and Technology Commercialisation,is the process of skill transferring, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments or universities and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials or services.  It is  closely related  to (and  may  arguably  be considered  a  subset of) knowledge transfer.



Write in details about the report of the club of Rome. What do you mean by environmental ethics?Define the term "value spectrum of a good life"

Club of Rome:-

The Club of Rome has produced a standard "World model" produced by computer which depicts the future of humanity in the world by drawing graphs where the ordinate in quantity of goods and services and the abscissa is the time or years. Inside the coordinate there are basically five graphs e.g. (a) population (b) Food per capita (c) Resources (d Industrial output per capita (e) pollution.


Fig- Club Of Rome


 Environmental Ethics:-

• Ethics is a branch of philosophy. It deals with moral and values. An ethics is a principal
or a value that we use to decide whether an action is good or bad. Values changes and they differ from control to control.

• Environmental Ethics refers to the moral relationships between human and the natural
world relationships between human and the natural world it examines various issues such as the obligation or responsibility balance against human needs and interest. It also examined whether some interest are more important then others.
Efforts to deal with such ethical question have lead to the development of ethical ideas and principle for protecting the global environment that early environment list, Afford Pinchot has applied these principal to conversion. In his view the basic propose of conservation is to protect natural resources to produces the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time.

• It is now felt that we must also recognized inherently worth of all others component of
the natural worlds,both leaving and nonliving otherwise. We can no prevent
environmental degradation. The root such of the environment degradation is the exceptions of on another entries view.

• Such a view consider component of the natural world to be valuable as the means to
some human end.

"Value spectrum of a good life"

Nature of values and value spectrum of a Good Life. A good society with a good life refers to a society which should provide means and conditions for the material growth and encourage and inspire all its members to achieve their full human potential in all fields and aspects of life including moral and spiritual. Thus a modern and good Indian society and good Indian life provides to all its citizens the facilities and infrastructure for material benefits as well as moral, ethical and human values which give them security and protection on a social level.
             In a good society there should be minimum of fraud, cheating, violence, scam, scandals, robbery and terrorism.
            A good society should accept certain human values of love, compassion, kindness, empathy etc for each other and such a society should be caring, sharing and cooperating so that there is no social aberration.

What do you mean by market? Write down the importance and benefits of marketing planning. Write down the short note on Human Resource Management.

Market:-

“Market include both place and region in which buyers and sellers are   free competition with one another”-Pyle.
    “The term ‘Market’ refers not to a place but to a commodity or commodities and buyers and sellers who are in direct competitions with one another”-Chapman.

Importance of marketing planning:-

The importance or marketing planning is discusses in the following points:--

1. It helps and avoiding future uncortainties. 

2. It helps in management by objectives. 

3. It helps in achieving objectives. 

4. It helps in co-ordinator and communication among department.


Benefits of Marketing planning:-

1. Marketing planning promotes successful marketing operation. 

2. Planning helps to co-ordinates activities which can facilitate the attainment of objectives. 

3. It forces management to reflect upon the feature in a systematic way. 

4. A resource can be better in relation to identified market opportunities. 

5. Planning can be advocated to minimize the risk of failure. 

6. Marketing planning reduces adverse consequence of management. 

7. A greater preparedness to accommodate charge can be stimulated. 

8. Marketing planning helps to approach performance capitalise on strength, minimize weaknesses and threads and finally open up new opportunities. 

9. A plan provides a frame work for a continuing review of operation. It will make the frame to give more attention to market enlargement rather than market maintainance.

Human Resource Management:-

  Human resource management is concerned with competing for and competing on human resource competing for human resource involves developing, relating and integrating personal to achieve competitive advantage.

** This definition focuses attention more sharply on the employment and utilitarian of human resources with a view that the organizations has right time and right place.     

What is an Environmental Ethics?

Environmental Ethics:-

• Ethics is a branch of philosophy. It deals with moral and values. An ethics is a principal or a value that we use to decide whether an action is good or bad. Values changes and they differ from control to control.

• Environmental Ethics refers to the moral relationships between human and the natural
world relationships between human and the natural world it examines various issues such as the obligation or responsibility balance against human needs and interest. It also examined whether some interest are more important then others.
Efforts to deal with such ethical question have lead to the development of ethical ideas and principle for protecting the global environment that early environment list, Aifford Pinchot has applied these principal to conversion. In his view the basic propose of conservation is to protect natural resources to produces the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time.

• It is now felt that we must also recognized inherents worth of all others component of
the natural worlds,both leaving and nonliving otherwise. We can no prevent environmental degradation. The root such of the environment degradation is the exceptions of on another entries view.

• Such a view consider component of the natural world to be valuable as the means to
some human end.

Define the term "Value Spectrum Of a Good Life"

Value Spectrum Of Good Life:-

Nature of values and value spectrum of a Good Life. A good society with a good life refers to a society which should provide means and conditions for the material growth and encourage and inspire all its members to achieve their full human potential in all fields and aspects of life including moral and spiritual. Thus a modern and good Indian society and good Indian life provides to all its citizens the facilities and infrastructure for material benefits as well as moral, ethical and human values which give them security and protection on a social level.

             In a good society there should be minimum of fraud, cheating, violence, scam, scandals, robbery and terrorism.

            A good society should accept certain human values of love, compassion, kindness, empathy etc for each other and such a society should be caring, sharing and cooperating so that there is no social aberration.

Briefly discuss any five problems of man-machine instruction

Five problems of Man -Machine interaction:-

In this age of mechanization the man-machine relationship governs a lot of parameters for.

A. Higher production.

B. Better quality.

C. Better maintenance of machine.

D. Better system of operation.

E. Alteration of machine design for comfort in operation.

F. Updating the machine to adopt present day raw material and recipe.

G. Updating the design to modernize the specification and make them more universal.

H.  To make the machine cheaper.

I. To make the operation simpler.

J. To make the machine more versatile.

K. To make the machine produce different products of diverse application, large and
small size, different material of construction all simultaneously.

L. The attitude of the man and the satisfaction of the worker can be changed and
improved.

Write in details about the report of the Club of Rome

Reports of Club Of  Rome:-
The Club of Rome has produced a standard "World model" produced by computer which depicts the future of humanity in the world by drawing graphs where the ordinate in quantity of goods and services and the abscissa is the time or years. Inside the coordinate there are basically five graphs e.g. (a) population (b) Food per capita (c) Resources (d Industrial output per capita (e) pollution.
The following graph has been produced by the club:


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Fig - Club Of Rome

What do you mean by limit of growth?

Limits Of Growth:-

The second half of the twentieth century showed a great rise in economic growth and life style in almost all countries of the world, in fact over 180 countries of about 200countries under the United Nations have improved treme-rabigly-ArtlieeYdThri-he twentieth century came the globalization which has given a big opportunity to all countries to utilize each other's resources with proper planning and through WTO. With the rise of living standard the resources position started becoming scanty and scare in most of the countries except for some resources which are non-renewable, only some agricultural products are renewable that also is not the case with generation and production of wood and timber. USA alone with 5% of world population consume over 30% of the world's resources. Like this Russia, China, japan, India, Korea, Taiwan, along with all small developing countries like some African and Middle East countries, some South American countries are also consuming steel, cement, petroleum etc. as well as FMCG products like bread, butter, tooth paste, biscuit, etc. All these taken together the
net result is the shortage of resources already felt which is likely' to be further deteriorated.


This will mean two things:

1. Either man will have to slow down their pace of growth , or

2. They have to go on innovating, creating and producing newer and newer materials fast as they are depleted.

            None of the above two proposals is very easy to follow as the humanity, at large, by pressure of circumstances is unlikely to agree to slow down the pace of economic growth as that would create many other problems.
On the other hand innovation and recreation of energy, mineral and plant and animal resources require continuous research and development engaging huge high quality manpower, huge investment and instead of systematic research, they may have to depend on serendipity i.e. sudden and unexpected miraculous invention of new products and services.

              This will compel man in course of the first century of the third millennium to accept a limit of growth of economy of the world as a whole. This will on the one hand offer food, clothing and shelter to humanity and reduce the luxurious life style using air conditioner, luxury cars, jet aircrafts for uneconomic flights, high quality and highly expensive social functions etc. This according to Prof Galbraith, an authority on economics and one time American Ambassador to India, is known and termed as "limits to growth".

What is Technology Transfer?

Technology Transfer:-

Technology Transfer, also called Transfer of Technology (TOT) and Technology Commercialisation,is the process of skill transferring, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments or universities and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials or services.  It is  closely related  to (and  may  arguably  be considered  a  subset of) knowledge transfer.

Importance of Marketing Planning

Importance of Marketing Planning: -

The importance or marketing planning is discusses in the following points:--

1. It helps and avoiding future uncortainties.
2. It helps in management by objectives.
3. It helps in achieving objectives.
4. It helps in co-ordinator and communication among department.

Benefit of Marketing Planning

Benefit of Marketing Planning: -

1. Marketing planning promotes successful marketing operation.
2. Planning helps to co-ordinates activities which can facilitate the attainment of objectives.
3. It forces management to reflect upon the feature in a systematic way.
4. A resource can be better in relation to identified market opportunities.
5. Planning can be advocated to minimize the risk of failure.
6. Marketing planning reduces adverse consequence of management.
7. A greater preparedness to accommodate charge can be stimulated.
8. Marketing planning helps to approach performance capitalise on strength, minimize weaknesses and threads and finally open up new opportunities.
9. A plan provides a frame work for a continuing review of operation. It will make the frame to give more attention to market enlargement rather than market maintainance.

What is whistle blowing? Discuss the process. How will you manage it?

A basic ethical dilemma is that an engineer has the duty to report to the appropriate authority a possible risk to others from a client or employer failing to follow the engineer's directions. According to first principles, this duty overrides the duty to a client and/or employer. An engineer may be disciplined, or have their license revoked, even if the failure to report such a danger does not result in the loss of life or health.

        In many cases, this duty can be discharged by advising the client of the consequences in a forthright matter, and ensuring the client takes the engineer's advice. However, the engineer must ensure that the remedial steps are taken and, if they are not, the situation must be reported to the appropriate authority. In very rare cases, where even a governmental authority may not take appropriate action, the engineer can only discharge the duty by making the situation public. As a result, whistle blowing by professional engineers is not an unusual event, and courts have often sided with engineers in such cases, overruling duties,. to employers and confidentiality considerations that otherwise would have prevented the engineer from speaking out.

What do you mean by whistle blowing? State the factors involved in this process. Describe the process & write down how to manage whistle blowing.

A basic ethical dilemma is that an engineer has the duty to report to the appropriate authority a possible risk to others from a client or employer failing to follow the engineer's directions. According to first principles, this duty overrides the duty to a client and/or employer. An engineer may be disciplined, or have their license revoked, even if the failure to report such a danger does not result in the loss of life or health.

        In many cases, this duty can be discharged by advising the client of the consequences in a forthright matter, and ensuring the client takes the engineer's advice. However, the engineer must ensure that the remedial steps are taken and, if they are not, the situation must be reported to the appropriate authority. In very rare cases, where even a governmental authority may not take appropriate action, the engineer can only discharge the duty by making the situation public. As a result, whistle blowing by professional engineers is not an unusual event, and courts have often sided with engineers in such cases, overruling duties,. to employers and confidentiality considerations that otherwise would have prevented the engineer from speaking out.

Cultural Values

Groups, societies, or cultures have values that are largely shared by its members. Members share a culture even if each member's personal values do not entirely agree with some normative values sanctioned in the culture.  This reflects an individual's ability to synthesize and extract aspects valuable to them from the multiple subcultures they belong to.

    If an individual expresses a value that is in serious conflict with their group's norms, the group's authority may carry out various way of stigmatizing or conforming the individual.  For example, imprisonment can result from conflict with social norms that have been established as law or rules and regulation of a country.

Personal Values

The personal values evolve from experiences with the external world and can change over time.  Integrity in the application of a value refers to its continuity; persons have integrity if they apply their value appropriately regardless of arguments or negative reinforcement from others. Values are applied appropriately when they are applied in the right area.  For example, it would be appropriate to apply religious values in times of happiness as well as in times of despair.

      Thus, personal values are implicitly related to choice; they guide decisions by allowing for an individual's choices to be compared to each choice's associated values. 'Personal values developed early in life may be resistant to change.  They may be derived from those of particular groups or systems.  Such as culture, religion, and political party. However, personal values are not universal; one's genes, family, nation and historical environment determine one's personal values. This is not to say that the value concepts themselves are not universal, merely that each individual possess a unique conception of them.

Write a short note on Sustainable development.

Sustainable development:

Sustainable development refers to an optimum level of development that just meets the
needs, not all greeds and aspirations of the present generation without compromising and jeopardizing the needs, ability and reasonable expectations, of the future generations to / satisfy their own needs and demands.
Environment and ecology comprise two very important components of sustainable development.

        Environment is an item which is not limited within the geography or political boundary of each county. Air pollution may occur in Africa and Asia by the generation of various gases like CFC which destroys ozone or carbon dioxide which results in global warming generated by the industrial activities of Europe and America. Also the chemicals thrown into the rivers and oceans by the giant chemical plants of America and Europe may pollute the water of Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean.
In order to maintain, retain and achieve sustainable development three steps are essential:

(a) To maintain world population to a zero growth level by slowly reducing the present
figure of 6000 million to a maximum of about 2000 million all over the world. This
will reduce the consumption of natural resources to about 1/3rd of the present level.

(b) To slow down the pace of development to a level which will offer employment to
almost everyone. This will entail reduction of mechanization and automation and
engage human beings wherever possible.

(c) To prevent environmental degradation as far as possible. To stop air and water
pollution or rectify and cure the environmental pollution by developing suitable
means by research e.g.

(i) Absorption of CO2 all over the atmosphere to reduce the level to a maximum of
1.5% by developing suitable technology.

(ii) To prevent perforation of ozone level in the layer which protect the human
beings from harmful effects of solar and other rays.

            With these three steps sustainable development may be possible. At least an effort can be made. But this requires the dictum of United Nations to all the three norms, agreement and co-operation between the big and developed powers like USA, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and poor countries of Africa, S. America and a few countries of Europe, India remaining in both the groups.

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