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This document provides information on the course "Universal Human Values and Professional Ethics". The course aims to help students understand the need for value education and distinguish between values and skills. It also aims to help students understand the meaning of happiness and prosperity and how to achieve harmony at various levels, including within themselves, relationships, society, and nature. The course has 5 units that cover these topics over 36 hours. It discusses concepts like the difference between self and body, harmony in relationships and society, interconnectedness in nature, and implications for professional ethics. The document lists intended learning outcomes and suggested readings for the course.

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This document provides information on the course "Universal Human Values and Professional Ethics". The course aims to help students understand the need for value education and distinguish between values and skills. It also aims to help students understand the meaning of happiness and prosperity and how to achieve harmony at various levels, including within themselves, relationships, society, and nature. The course has 5 units that cover these topics over 36 hours. It discusses concepts like the difference between self and body, harmony in relationships and society, interconnectedness in nature, and implications for professional ethics. The document lists intended learning outcomes and suggested readings for the course.

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UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Teaching Hours: 36 Code: KVE 301

Credit: 3

Course Objectives

1. To help students distinguish between values and skills, and understand the need, basic
guidelines, content and process of value education.

2. To help students initiate a process of dialog within themselves to know what they ‘really want
to be’ in their life and profession

3. To help students understand the meaning of happiness and prosperity for a human being.

4. To facilitate the students to understand harmony at all the levels of human living, and live
accordingly. 5. To facilitate the students in applying the understanding of harmony in existence
in their profession and lead an ethical life

Course Outcomes

1. Understand the significance of value inputs in a classroom, distinguish between values and
skills, understand the need, basic guidelines, content and process of value education, explore the
meaning of happiness and prosperity and do a correct appraisal of the current scenario in the
society

2. Distinguish between the Self and the Body, understand the meaning of Harmony in the Self
the Co-existence of Self and Body.

3. Understand the value of harmonious relationship based on trust, respect and other naturally
acceptable feelings in human-human relationships and explore their role in ensuring a
harmonious society

4. Understand the harmony in nature and existence, and work out their mutually fulfilling
participation in the nature.

5. Distinguish between ethical and unethical practices, and start working out the strategy to
actualize a harmonious environment wherever they work.

Course Description Every human being has two sets of questions to answer for his life:

a) what to do? and,


b) b) how to do?.
The first set pertains to the value domain, and the other to the skill domain. Both are com
plimentary, but value domain has a higher priority. Today, education has become
more and more skill biased, and hence, the basic aspiration of a human being, that is to li
ve with happiness and prosperity, gets defeated, in spite of abundant technological
progress.
This course is aimed at giving inputs that will help to ensure the right understanding and r
ight feelings in the students in their life and profession, enabling them
to lead an ethical life. In
this course, the students learn the process of self‐ exploration, the difference between
the Self and the Body, the naturally acceptable feelings in relationships in
a family, the comprehensive human goal in the society, the mutual fulfillment in
the nature and the co‐ existence in existence. As a natural outcome of such
inputs, they are able to evaluate an ethical life and profession ahead.

UNIT-1: Course Introduction - Need, Basic Guidelines, Content and Process for Value
Education (6 Hours) Understanding the need, basic guidelines, content and process for Value
Education, Self Exploration–what is it? - its content and process; ‘Natural Acceptance’ and
Experiential Validation- as the mechanism for self-exploration, Continuous Happiness and
Prosperity- A look at basic Human Aspirations, Right understanding, Relationship and Physical
Facilities- the basic requirements for fulfillment of aspirations of every human being with their
correct priority,

Understanding Happiness and Prosperity correctly- A critical appraisal of the current scenario,
Method to fulfill the above human aspirations: understanding and living in harmony at various
levels.

UNIT-2: Understanding Harmony in the Human Being - Harmony in Myself (7 Hours)


Understanding human being as a co-existence of the sentient ‘I’ and the material ‘Body’,
Understanding the needs of Self (‘I’) and ‘Body’ - Sukh and Suvidha, Understanding the Body as
an instrument of ‘I’ (I being the doer, seer and enjoyer), Understanding the characteristics and
activities of ‘I’ and harmony in ‘I’, Understanding the harmony of I with the Body: Sanyam and
Swasthya; correct appraisal of Physical needs, meaning of Prosperity in detail, Programs to
ensure Sanyam and Swasthya.

UNIT-3: Understanding Harmony in the Family and Society- Harmony in Human-Human


Relationship (8 Hours) Understanding harmony in the Family- the basic unit of human
interaction , Understanding values in human-human relationship; meaning of Nyaya and program
for its fulfillment to ensure Ubhay-tripti; Trust (Vishwas) and Respect (Samman) as the
foundational values of relationship, Understanding the meaning of Vishwas; Difference between
intention and competence, Understanding the meaning of Samman, Difference between respect
and differentiation; the other salient values in relationship, Understanding the harmony in the
society (society being an extension of family): Samadhan, Samridhi, Abhay, Sah-astitva as
comprehensive Human Goals, Visualizing a universal harmonious order in society- Undivided
Society (AkhandSamaj), Universal Order (Sarvabhaum Vyawastha )- from family to world
family!.

UNIT-4: Understanding Harmony in the Nature and Existence - Whole existence as Coexistence
(8 Hours) Understanding the harmony in the Nature, Interconnectedness and mutual fulfillment
among the four orders of nature- recyclability and self-regulation in nature, Understanding
Existence as Coexistence (Sah-astitva) of mutually interacting units in all-pervasive space,
Holistic perception of harmony at all levels of existence.

UNIT-5: Implications of the above Holistic Understanding of Harmony on Professional Ethics


( 7 Hours) Natural acceptance of human values, Definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct, Basis
for Humanistic Education, Humanistic Constitution and Humanistic Universal Order,
Competence in Professional Ethics: a) Ability to utilize the professional competence for
augmenting universal human order, b) Ability to identify the scope and characteristics of people-
friendly and ecofriendly production systems, technologies and management models, Case studies
of typical holistic technologies, management models and production systems, Strategy for
transition from the present state to Universal Human Order: a) At the level of individual: as
socially and ecologically responsible engineers, technologists and managers, b) At the level of
society: as mutually enriching institutions and organizations

Suggested Readings

1. R R Gaur, R Sangal, G P Bagaria, 2009, A Foundation Course in Human Values and


Professional Ethics. 2. Ivan Illich, 1974, Energy & Equity, The Trinity Press, Worcester, and
Harper Collins, USA MBA MAIN SYLLABUS 2021-22 MBA MAIN Page 15

3. E.F. Schumacher, 1973, Small is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered, Blond
& Briggs, Britain.

4. Sussan George, 1976, How the Other Half Dies, Penguin Press. Reprinted 1986, 1991 5.

Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III, 1972,
Limits to Growth – Club of Rome’s report, Universe Books.

6. A Nagraj, 1998, Jeevan Vidya Ek Parichay, Divya Path Sansthan, Amarkantak.

7. P L Dhar, RR Gaur, 1990, Science and Humanism, Commonwealth Publishers.

8. A N Tripathy, 2003, Human Values, New Age International Publishers.

9. Subhas Palekar, 2000, How to practice Natural Farming, Pracheen (Vaidik)


KrishiTantraShodh, Amravati.

10. E G Seebauer & Robert L. Berry, 2000, Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists & Engineers,
Oxford University Press
11. M Govindrajran, S Natrajan & V.S. Senthil Kumar, Engineering Ethics (including Human
Values), Eastern Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India Ltd.

12. B P Banerjee, 2005, Foundations of Ethics and Management, Excel Books 13. B L Bajpai,
2004, Indian Ethos and Modern Management, New Royal Book Co., Lucknow. Reprinted 2008

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