University of Phoenix
Personal Ethics Development Jason T. Clark
PHL 323
Ethics in Management
July 26, 2013
Kent M. Lauderdale

Personal Ethics Development
Character, morals, and values are factors that assist in creating an ethical system. The development of ethics from childhood to adulthood is individually based. The ethical system is not a process that comes with birth, but core ethical beliefs in which assist an individual in making decisions. As a father who has dreams and aspirations for my children, it is a strong goal to ensure that they learn what it takes to achieve positive success. I have considered myself to be a duty-based individual who focuses on the role of a father who supports his children and takes care of any responsibility to those who I love. I have served in multiply roles where my duty-based responsibility has placed me in positions in which my decisions strongly affect the lives of others.
Values are those things or actions upon which the individual or organization spends time and money. The values that define each person sometimes have a similarity that creates relationships, friendship, and marriages. These same values can be disliked by other cultures and people that cause bad situations like wars, terroristic acts, and domestic cultural violence. Key values of most cultures are faith, family, and life. The faith or religion of a cultural can bring friends and families together or divide them. The friends I associate with are Muslim, Jehovah Witness, and Christian. They are different in what they may practice religiously, but our time together is not religious based.
Morals are originated on the essential philosophies of right behavior rather than on legalities, enactment, or custom. My morals are used to make a difference to my children. I show my children in life that they have to develop diligence in everything that