DAYANAND ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

QUESTION BANK
UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (KVE-401)

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1​.​ D
​ efine the following terms:-

a.​ V
​ alue Education

b.​ S
​ elf-exploration

c.​ Natural Acceptance

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d.​ H
​ appiness

e.​ P
​ rosperity

f.​ Domain of skills

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g.​ V
​ alues

2. What do you mean by Ethics?

3. Explain Intrinsic and Extrinsic values.
4. State the comprehensive human goals in society.
5. Explain the difference between animal consciousness and human consciousness
6. Differentiate between the activities of the Self and the Body on any two grounds.
7. Explain the relationship between Truth and Respect.
8. What are the two basic aspirations of human beings?
9. Write a short note on the need for Value Education in today’s scenario.
10. What do you mean by Universal Human Order? What are its implications?
11. What do you mean by competence in professional ethics? Give two examples of its
implication in industry.
12. Briefly explain the natural characteristics of the four orders in nature.
13. Explain the process of Self Exploration to understand human values. How do our
preconditioning hinder this process? Give one example.
14. What are the requirements to fulfill basic human aspirations?
15. Distinguish between the activities going on in the self, going on in the body, and involving
both the Self and the Body. Give two examples of each.
16. Suggest programs to ensure proper functioning of your body. Can we sustain them
without right understanding?
17. Right understanding in the individuals is the basis for harmony in the family, which is the
building block for harmony in the society. Give your comments.
18. Explain briefly the importance of value based education for the development of a society.
19. Describe briefly the criteria for evaluation of Holistic technology. Support your answer
with an example.
20. What do you understand by the terms innateness, self-organization and self-expression?
How are they related to each other?
21. What do you mean by definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct? How can it be ensured?
22. What are the reasons of unethical practices in the profession today? What is the real
solution to the above problems? Give your opinion.
23. What do the abbreviations given as SVDD, SSDD and SSSS signify?
24. What is the meaning of prosperity? How can you say that you are prosperous?
25. What is value education? Why is there a need for value education? How does value
education help in fulfilling one's aspirations?
26. What are the basic guidelines for value education?
27. What is the need for value education in technical and other professional institutions?‘Is
our present education system in India has a deficiency of value education?’ If yes, why
and if not then why not? Elaborate the answer.
28. “For success in any Human Endeavour both values and skills are required.” Explain.
What do you mean by values? How do they differ from skills?
29. Explain the process of self-exploration with a diagram.“Process of self exploration leads
to realization and understanding.” Explain with an example. Anything that we come to
know should be a proposal or final decision? Explain this with respect to our value
education.
30. Explain the concepts of natural acceptance and experiential validation as the
mechanisms of self exploration.
31. What is innateness (svatva), self organization (swatantrata) and self expression
(swarajya)? How are they related to each other?
32. “Natural acceptance is innate, invariant and universal.” Explain this statement with an
example.
33. Three things are needed in order to fulfill basic human aspirations–right understanding,
right relationships and physical facilities. Explain the meaning of each one of these.
34. Distinguish between ‘human consciousness’ and ‘animal consciousness’. How “shiksha
and sanskar” are helpful in raising man to “human consciousness” level.
35. What is the outcome when we try to identify relationships based on the exchange of
physical facilities?
36. Money as a source of human aspiration can be a path to reach mutual fulfilment?
Comment.
37. “Right understanding + Relationship = Mutual fulfilment; Right understanding + Physical
facilities = Mutual prosperity.” Illustrate the above with two examples for each.
38. Self exploration is a process of dialogue between ‘what you are’ and ‘what you really
want to be’. Explain and illustrate.
39. What do you understand by prosperity? What is the difference between prosperity and
wealth? How are the two related?
40. Physical facilities are necessary but not complete for human beings. Do you agree with
this statement? Support your answer with reasons and examples.
41. “To be in a state of harmony is happiness”. Explain this statement and illustrate with two
examples from your day to day life. Define that happiness is the state of synergy.
42. What are the values in interaction of human beings with the material things? Give one
example of each.
43. What do you understand by competence in professional ethics? Give two examples of its
implications in industry.
44. What is ethical human conduct? OR How does right understanding provide the basis for
ethical human conduct? Give two examples.