The Choice to sleep well

I have been born and raised in a middle class family where ethical values are sown and instituted into us right from childhood. Never lie to anyone, respect your elders and love your younger, be polite, never hurt anyone etc is taught every day. Schools teach us not to cheat, to be honest and helpful.

 Ethics are the most important ingredients that constitute our core values by which we survive. According to me, ethics are very important tool to lead a life where you can be content with your action and sleep peacefully in the night. Once we imbibe correct ethics and practice them, we can be assured of improving ourselves as well as the society at large. There can be many ways to execute an action, some of which may be malicious and harmful to the general masses. The path that is morally and ethically correct may seems difficult to tread upon, but that ultimately leads us in the most promised manner without any glitches in mind and heart.

Even when we enter into an organization, we are taught to be ethical in what we do. The reputed firms perform their entire task that are so executed that such actions are ethically correct. Some may choose the other path, but if one has to stay for longer duration in the market, then it has to be ethically correct in its actions. Not only the consumers or the customers but also the investors, prospect employee judge one company based on their ethical values. This ultimately affect the right investments, right recruits and of course the loyalty in consumers.

Not paying bribery, sticking to the law of the, not keeping customers in the dark etc and providing the promised products are some of the ethical values that corporate have. Sticking to such ethics is difficult but is equally important. And I believe strongly that one that follows it flourishes. The rest just survive or rather perishes.

I have had a few years of spending my life in corporate world and I find myself fortunate enough to have associated myself with a Tata group firm. As part of the Tata group, I must say, with proud, that there have been many instances where decisions were to be made in which profit clashed with ethical issues and the group chose to stick to its core ethical values. Working in TCE, I too came across situations where bidders, in order to get their quotes approved tried to bribe the authorities. Being part of the team I witnessed that bid cancelled out rightly. It is this trust of being ethical is what drives the emotion of customer, investors and suppliers stuck to the brand name of Tata.

It is in a situation of choosing for an option between personal gain and sticking to core ethical values of honesty, integrity and loyalty to the organization, a person’s fealty is measured. Not many survive the lucrative flood of illegal incentives, but those who do go for a sound sleep at night without a fear of implication.