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THE FILIPINO VALUE SYSTEM AND

BUSINESS ETHICS CHALLENGES


THE TERM "BUSINESS ETHICS" IN THE
PHILIPPINES CONTEXT
The semantics of the term business ethics cannot help but reflect the
ethnolinguistics and cultural wealth of, or the complexity present in, the
Phlippines. The understanding of business ethics expresses the values both
particular and peculiar to each of the idioms currently used in the
country."Business" ethics is largely understood in its American sense,as what is
right and wrong business.
For some, it is a chosen occupation, career, or
profession which, due primarily to its economic
consequences,has become a fucos of bublic concern.
In other words, public concern over business does not
at all arise from any purportedly inherent value.
The Family Code of the Philippines (art. 209) provides that "the parents and those exercising
parental authority shall have with respect to their unemancipated children or wards the following
rights and duties:

1. to keep them in their company, to support, eductate and instruct them by right precept and good example, and to
provide for their upbringing in keeping with their means;
2. to give them love and affection, advice and counsel, companionship, and understanding;
3.to provide them with moral and spiritual guidance, inculcate in them honesty, integrity, self-discipline, self-
reliance, industry and thrift, stimulate their interest in civic affairs, and inspire in them compliance with the duties
citizenship;
4.to enhance, protect, preserve, and maintain their physical and mental health at all times;
5. to furnish them with good and wholesome educational materials,
supervise their activities, reaction and association with others, protect them
from bad company, and prevent them from acquiring habits detrimental to
their health, studies, and morals;

6. to represent them in all matters affecting their interest;


7. to demand from them respect and obedience;

8. to impose discipline on them as may be required under the circumstances; and

9.to perform such other duties as are imposed by law upon parents and guardians".
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A Filipino experience family Find their philosophical basis


Such Filipino values as social in man's dynamic openness
closeness and solidarity
acceptance (pakikisama, amor toward nature and the world
(pagpapahalaga sa pamilaya),
propio, economic security, (e.g., the value of
politeness (use of po or ho or hanapbuhay ng magsasaka),
pagmamay- ari) and trust in
po), one's fellowmen (the values
God (pananalig sa Diyos,
of paggalang, hiya,
Bathala, or Maykapal)
Hospitality (tuloy po kayo), katarungan, pag-ibig), and
gratitude (utang na loob) from God (the values of
pananampalataya,
within, that is subjectively
panalangin,kabanalan)
and emotionally,etc.
( Gorospe,1994).
Since there are lots of Chinese influence on Filipino
culture because of the migration to the Philippines of
many Chinese since centuries ago, one needs to also
mention the familiarity with Confucian ethics and
business lesson derived from Confucius' sagely
wisdom.
From Confucian ethics emanate the emphasis
on social obligation, ethical decision-making,
positive business dealings, and harmonious
relationship within the organization.
In Confucian ethics, the practice of the Tao-"the way of life,"or the ultimate
purpose and eligthtenment in life- is very important. Along with this, we also
recognize other common Confucian values: (a)filial piety;(b) brotherhood,peer-ship
and equality;(c) loyalty and fidelity;(d) trustworthiness;(e) courtesy and politeness;
(f) righteousness, right conduct,and courage;(g) uprightness,honor, intergrity, and
character;and (h) humility and shame.Wherever Confusian ethics has influenced
business, the business people would establish good relationship amongst one
other,and thus, more people would be encouraged to practice similar good habits or
virtues (Kim and Sik,2013).
The ultimate basis of the Filipino psyche for its
judgements in the realm of business ethics rest,
however, on the conceptsbof sin (kasalanan) and
virtuous action (mabuting gawa), which are clearly
of religious content.
Bussiness ethics coresponds to a wide range of concept pairs in
Filipino. On the primary level, business ethics implies what is
right or correct (tama) and what is prohibited or illegal (bawal)
in trade or business (pangangalakal). On another level, there is
a reference to what is good(mabuti) and what is bad ( masama),
although in a highly utilitarian and instrumental rather than in
an absolute moral sense.
Business Ethics challenges in the Philippines

Basic Education's usual approach to ethics teaching in the Philippines has been
generally pendantic. teachers and parents repeatedly admonish us about
inherited don'ts,perhaps thanking that the repetition would drive us ethical.In a
country where much is needed to combat what cristics call endemic corruption,
moral numbness has crept in.Along with moral numbness, an underdeveloped
capability for moral reasoning and the lack of moral courage make business
ethics learning particularly challenging in the Philippines.
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