Adapting the University Ethical Climate, a Necessity in the Pandemic Context
"Ethics and Deontology" Journal,
Vol. 1 No. 02 (2021): "Ethics and Deontology" Journal
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the consequences of the pandemic crisis measures on the educational system, in terms of the university ethical climate, trying to provide solutions for creating and maintaining an optimal climate for learning and character development. The ethical organizational climate is at the core of the ethical decision-making, ethical behavior, and development in the university environment. The university ethical climate reflects the collective moral behaviors, facilitates commitment, respect for ethical norms and integrity of the parties involved in the educational process, leading to the development of an ethical culture of responsibility. In the context of the current pandemic, the educational solutions adopted, although effective in the short term, in the long run can impinge on the basic values the traditional school is built on. An open-door policy is needed more than ever in order to adapt to the new reality generated by the crisis, to keep universities in an area of moral authority, to avoid moral obscurantism and absenteeism, consequences of the evading the responsibility tendency, generated by the online school.
Keywords
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- Ghillyer, A., (2014), Business Ethics Now, Mc Graw Hill Education, 5th edition
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- Victor, B, Cullen, J.B (1988). The Organizational Basis of Ethical Work Climates, Administrative Science Quarterly, 33
References
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Carta, (2016). Carta Academiei Forțelor Terestre ,,Nicolae Bălcescu”, Sibiu, Codul de etică și deontologie profesională, 2016
Constituţia României, published in M.Of.nr.767/31.10. 2003, part I
Craig, E. J., (2015), Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership, Casting Light or Shadow, fifth Edition, Sage Publications, Inc.
DEX, (1998). Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, second edition, published under the auspices of the Romanian Academy - Iorgu Iordan Institute of Linguistics, București, Universul Enciclopedic Publishing House.
Ghillyer, A., (2014), Business Ethics Now, Mc Graw Hill Education, 5th edition
Jones, D.G., (2020), Ethical Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications for the Ethos and Practice of Anatomy as a Health Science Discipline, Anat Sci Educ 13:549–555, https://doi.org/10.1002/ase.2003, p.550-551
Mihailescu, N., (2019), Managementul eticii în instituția școlară, https://ust.md/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/autoreferat-mihailescu.pdf
NCA, (1999). Credo for Ethical Communication, approved by National Communication Association (NCA) Legislative Council, November https://open.lib.umn.edu/publicspeaking/chapter/2-2-ethics-in-public-speaking
Ordin, (2018). Ordinul de ministru nr. 3.131/2018 on the inclusion in curricula, for all universities study programs organized by higher education institutions in the national education system, of courses on ethics and academic integrity, M.O.
Vardi, Y., (2001), The effects of organizational and ethical climates on misconduct at work, Journal of Business Ethics 29 (4):325 - 337
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Victor, B, Cullen, J.B (1988). The Organizational Basis of Ethical Work Climates, Administrative Science Quarterly, 33