Values Norms Implications for business

This historically and The betterment of the

culturally specific form of life human condition through
offers insights into personal self-effort, commitment to
intellectual and spiritual family as the basic unit of
concerns that address the society and to family
human condition of the ethics as the foundation of
emergent global community. social stability, trust in the
Confucian tradition helps to intrinsic value of moral
shape should be relevant education, self-reliance,
to the rest of the world in work, mutual aid, and
understanding the human a sense of an organic unity
condition with an ever-extending
As the Confucian example network of relationships
suggests, "Asian values" provides rich cultural
such as sympathy, resources for East Asian
distributive justice, duty- democracies to develop
consciousness, ritual, their own distinctive styles
public-spiritedness, and
group orientation are also
universalizable
modern values.
The Confucian insistence on
the importance of equality
rather than freedom,
sympathy rather than
rationality, civility rather
than law, duty rather than
rights, and human-
relatedness rather
than individualism.