Annapoorni Balan, Principal, IUEF SECRETARY GENERAL for Pooma Educational Trust.
"Values motivate, morals and ethics constrain"
In other words values describe what is important in a person 's life, while ethics and morals prescribe what is or is not considered appropriate behaviour in living one' s life. Principles inform our choice of values morals and ethics.
Generally speaking value refers to the relative worth of a quality or object Value is what makes something desirable or undesirable.
Values, therefore, become part of complex attitude sets that influence our behaviour and the behaviour of all those with whom we interact. What we value guides not only our personal choices but also our perceptions of the worth of others.
We are more likely for example to evaluate highly someone who holds the same hard-work value we do than someone who finds work distasteful with personal gratification a more important value.
What then of ethics? Ethics are the standards by which behaviors are evaluated for their mortality - their rightness, or wrongness.
Concepts such as material success, individualism, efficiency, thrift, freedom courage, hardwork prudence competition, patriotism compromise and punctuality all are value standards that are varying degrees of potency in contemporary American culture.
Ethical judgements focus more precisely on degrees of rightness and wrongness in human behaviour. In condemning someone for being inefficient conformist, extravagant lazy, or late, we probably would not also claim they are unethical.
However, standards such as honesty, truthfulness, fairness, and humaneness usually are used in making ethical judgment of rightness and wrongness in human behaviour.
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