Professional Ethics System
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A Professional Ethics System is an applied ethics for professionals.
- AKA: Professional Code of Conduct.
- Context:
- It can (typically) establish standards of behavior expected of professionals in their field.
- It can (often) include principles such as integrity, accountability, and respect for confidentiality.
- It can range from general ethical guidelines to specific codes of conduct tailored to particular professions.
- It can guide decision-making processes in complex situations where moral dilemmas arise.
- It can be enforced by professional organizations or regulatory bodies through disciplinary measures.
- It can promote trust between professionals and the public they serve.
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- Example(s):
- Legal Ethics, which addresses ethical issues in the practice of law, including lawyer-client confidentiality, conflict of interest, and professional responsibility.
- Medical Ethics, which encompasses principles such as patient autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice in healthcare.
- Engineering Ethics, which involves adhering to safety standards, maintaining honesty in reporting, and ensuring the welfare of the public.
- Journalistic Ethics, which includes accuracy, fairness, impartiality, and accountability in news reporting.
- Accounting Ethics, which requires accountants to act with integrity, objectivity, and due care, ensuring the accuracy of financial reporting.
- Research Ethics, which focuses on principles such as informed consent, confidentiality, and the responsible conduct of research.
- Business Ethics, which addresses ethical issues in business practices, such as corporate governance, insider trading, and corporate social responsibility.
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- See: Medical Ethics, Professional Obligation, Hippocratic Oath.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_ethics Retrieved:2023-11-15.
- Professional ethics encompass the personal and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. [1] The word professionalism originally applied to vows of a religious order. By no later than the year 1675, the term had seen secular application and was applied to the three learned professions: divinity, law, and medicine. The term professionalism was also used for the military profession around this same time. Professionals and those working in acknowledged professions exercise specialist knowledge and skill. How the use of this knowledge should be governed when providing a service to the public can be considered a moral issue and is termed "professional ethics". [2]
One of the earliest examples of professional ethics is the Hippocratic oath to which medical doctors still adhere to this day.
- Professional ethics encompass the personal and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. [1] The word professionalism originally applied to vows of a religious order. By no later than the year 1675, the term had seen secular application and was applied to the three learned professions: divinity, law, and medicine. The term professionalism was also used for the military profession around this same time. Professionals and those working in acknowledged professions exercise specialist knowledge and skill. How the use of this knowledge should be governed when providing a service to the public can be considered a moral issue and is termed "professional ethics". [2]
- ↑ Royal Institute of British Architects - Code of professional conduct
- ↑ Ruth Chadwick (1998). Professional Ethics. In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge. Retrieved October 20, 2006, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/professional-ethics/v-1