Sample MBA Essay - What does ethics mean to you

Another common mba essay question is - What does an “ethic” mean to you and how important is it? Give a specific example (e.g. decisions you had to make in the past) to illustrate this.

Ethics for me is a well based standard of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethical standards also include those that combine virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty. Feelings, laws, and social norms can deviate from what is ethical. So it is necessary to constantly examine one's standards to ensure that they are reasonable and well-founded. Ethics also means, then, the continuous effort of studying our own moral beliefs and our moral conduct, and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly-based.

For specific examples from your professional life, mention:

1)  How you negotiated your way around a suggestion by your manager/supervisor to perform certain tasks that was against your ethics.

2) This example should emphasis how you were able to negotiate on the new course of action that was ethical .

3) Emphasis the win-win strategy that you suggested and how it was a workaround for the initial unethical action suggested by your supervisor(provide examples of resistance on your new course of action)

4) Provide tangible output in following the actions that you suggested to the team.

5) Provide specific values that you believed in and conclude on how you were able to maintain them during the execution of the task

If you have worked long enough, you would have faced this issue. For example it would be something like compromising on the quality of the product to meet the deadline or charging you customer with exorbitant fees for a minor change in product feature.

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