8.ethical issues in communication
This document discusses ethical issues in communication. It defines ethics as the science of character and right versus wrong conduct. The objective of ethics is to establish moral standards and behavioral norms. Business ethics concentrates on applying general moral principles to business activities to resolve moral issues that arise. Ethical communication involves conveying all relevant and accurate information without manipulating, discriminating against, or exaggerating language. Examples of unethical communication include plagiarism, selective misquoting, misrepresenting numbers, and distorting visuals. Ethical communication maintains conveying the point without offending the audience, maintaining relationships, avoiding withholding crucial information, and ensuring accuracy.
8.ethical issues in communication
- 2. Introduction • Ethics can be defined as ‘science of character of a person expressed as right or wrong conduct of action.’ • Objective is to establish moral standards and behavioural norms.
- 3. Business ethics • It concentrates on the moral standards as they apply to business policies, institutions and behaviour • It attempts to apply general moral principles to business activities in order to resolve or at least clarify , the moral issues which typically arise in business.
- 4. Ethics and communication • Ethical communication involves all the relevant information. • It is true and accurate. • It avoids the language that manipulates, discriminates or exaggerates.
- 5. Some examples of unethical communication Plagiarism Stealing someone else’s work and claiming it as your own. Selective misquoting Deliberately omitting damaging or unflattering comments to paint a better (but untruthful picture ) of you or your company Misrepresenting numbers Increasing or decreasing numbers , altering statistics or omitting numerical data. Distorting visuals Making a product look bigger or changing the scale of graphs and charts to exaggerate or conceal the differences.
- 6. Communicating ethically • Conveying the point without offending the audience • Maintain a relationship with the audience • Avoid withholding crucial information • Accuracy of information