INTRODUCTION: BASIC

CONCEPTS
Prepared by: Roselynn P.M. Taaca
1.A- RULES AND RELEVANCE
OF FOLLOWING RULES
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Recall the rules you have to follow.
2. Explain why you have to follow the rules.
3. Recognize the functions of rules in a society
 RULES AS EFFECTIVE TOOLS
RULES
• Obvious parts of life and world order.

• Can be in the forms of laws, norms, policies, regulations, guidelines, custom,

requirements, formal rules, principles, promulgated rules, requirements, unwritten
rules, codes of conduct, etiquette, ethics, or morals.

• Rules are meant and enacted to be followed.

• Rules are the most effective tools to unify actions, settle conflicts, improve
situations, avoid disasters and harmoniously live with other living and non-living
things.
 RULES
PROS CONS
1. It makes people human. 1. Unacceptable to some because they constrict or
2. People create rules that they follow to preserve tighten people’s lives.
their values, regulate interactions, and perform 2. It also seem to restrict or limit peoples’
relevant activities. opportunities and capabilities.
3. As they follow rules, they realize their own
limitations as well as possibilities.
4. It is rules that guide actions so that others’ dignity
and rights may be upheld.
5. Unlike animals, humans can create and modify the
rules.
6. Rules are the most practical product and closest
reflection of human reason.
7. Rules are necessary tools in everyday human life
and could either rationally limit or enable things to
happen.
 TYPES OF RULES DESCRIPTION
1. Laws Systematized rules that are created and adopted by a country,
community, or organization to govern the actions of people.

2. Policies Flexible temporary rules or courses of action determined by a

government, organization, or individual to respond to real situations.

3. Principles Absolute, fundamentally applicable, and often open-ended official

guidelines that are used to form laws, regulations, and other rules.

4. Moral or ethical Principles (Ethics, Greek: ethos ; Morals, Greek: mores) Universal codes of
conduct based on ethical theories that guide people to do good or
right and avoid bad or wrong.

5. Norms Expected, controlled, or traditional behaviors through social processes

by a society or cultural group from its members for control.

6. Regulations Rules that are created based on the laws and adjusted on a flexible
basis by government departments to have effects on the laws.

7. Requirements Needed to be accomplished temporary rules set by an authority,

institution, or organization.
 TYPES OF RULES
8. Codes of Conduct
9. Guidelines
10. Formal Rules
11. Promulgated Rules
12. Unwritten Rules
13. Unspoken Rules
14. Customs
DESCRIPTION
Set of rules that summarizes norms, religious rules, proper actions,
and responsibilities.
Rules based on situations or circumstances that are open to significant
and flexible interpretations.
Documented and communicated rules, e.g., laws, so there is no
excuse such as the ignorance of the law; once laws are formalized it is
the responsibility of the citizen to strictly follow them.
Well-communicated written rules to those to whom they will be
applied. Laws, regulations, and contracts should first be sufficiently
promulgated.
Informal or undocumented rules but could be orally communicated.
“Silent” or informal rules that are understood without being written
and communicated.
Widely accepted or regular ways of behaving specific to a particular
society, place, and time.
 RULES AS GEARED TOWARDS
HAPPINESS
4 Most Important Types of Rules About Being A Good Citizen or Happy Member Of
An Institution:

1. LAW
• A systematized rule created to govern the actions of all Filipinos and
foreigners living in the country.
• This is a formal and promulgated rule that excuses no one from not
following because it entails the welfare and security of the whole nation.
2. POLICY
• A flexible rule officially determined by any government or private
organization to respond to critical situations.
• A policy is not a law.
3. PRINCIPLE
• A basic rule from which laws, policies, and other rules are developed.
• It restricts unaccepted rules or actions and should be followed while
policy merely guides and is not strictly implemented.
• It is greater than the law because the law is just the application of a
principle.
4. ETHICAL OR MORAL PRINCIPLE
• A moral code of conduct based on ethical theories.
• It is choosing good or right decisions and actions from bad or wrong
decisions and actions.
 RULES AS STANDARDS
• Most urgent and current standard demanded by all institutions and
organizations from its members.
• Compels every human person to do good and avoid doing wrong; as
a principle, it is the highest standard.
• Ironically, even if there are laws and rules promulgated , there are
so many violations done and violators apprehended or imprisoned.
• The formality or promulgation of rules does not guarantee
compliance.
• Japan are applauded for having the most disciplined and law-
abiding citizens.
 NATURE AND BENEFITS OF R-U-L-E-S
R-egulate U-nfold L- ove E- Exercise S-tandards
Rules REGULATE Rules UNFOLD Rules as LOVE for Rules as EXERCISE of Rules as STANDARDS
Behaviors Freedom Justice Authority of Values
• Rules are the dos and • As rules regulate some • Rules are the • When people gather • Rules are the right
don’ts actions. actions, they allow symbols of to create rules, they and good things to
• It draws the line of other possible actions intelligent human unite their powers value for a particular
limitations on to happen. beings who love that become a single situation.
behaviors because • Rules compose the
they restrict a person backbone of freedom justice. authority. • Standards of values
not to do other and society • Without rules, • In PMA – rules for are meant to be
actions. • Everybody should be those who are them come from a followed at all costs
• Created for good responsible for strong can easily hierarchy with by all.
reasons or positive supporting the develop systems to different levels of • Some rules that
results. government in its exploit the weak. authority and so could be legal but
• Every regulation mandate to Love of justice must be respected not moral. This is
unfolds freedom. implement only some •
rules so as not to should always absolutely. because values are
suppress individual prevail as it is truly • In business – no very personal that
freedom and other the nature of rules. rules to exercise to impose other
personal, unwritten, authority that objective values,
or unspoken rules. monitors the things become
centralization of complicated and
power challenging.