The morality of meddling. (Management).(article includes author correction: "The Fuzzy Line Between Work and Home", Fall 2002 issue, was authored by Leah Curtin)

There is an old story told about a devout elderly woman who swayed and rocked in her pew, murmuring 'Amen. Amen. Praise God!' as the minister preached against all the more common sins ... Until he started in on the evils of snuff-dipping. At that, the pious old girl sat bolt upright and said, "Now he done stopped preachin' and took to meddlin'! " In similar manner today, while ethics has enjoyed a renaissance, the discussion of moral behavior seems to have lagged behind.

Ethics is an intellectual analysis undertaken to determine what is right in a given situation. Morality is the degree of congruence between a persons perceptions of what is right and his or her actual behavior. In short, it is the messy personal problems that determine what we do about what we think is right. It more or less takes over where ethics leaves off. So while we have ethics centers, ethics committees and ethics education, the …