PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL

ETHICS

GROUP 6
PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS
• Professional ethics are principles that
govern the behaviour of a person or
group in a business environment.
BUSINESS ETHICS SHOWING
BEHAVIOUR & RESPONSIBILITY
BENEFITS OF CODE OF ETHICS

• Sets the right culture.

Code of Ethics • Builds a good
reputation.
• Helps remain in
compliance with laws
and regulations.
• Attracts outstanding
employees.
• Promotes social change.
 DISHONESTY
To act without honesty
It is the quality that conflicts with truth .
Lack of probity, cheating, lying or deliberately withholding
information , lack of integrity and other acts of deception .
It is usually viewed moral infraction and socially reviled
behavior
 DISHONESTY- WHY
 Protecting ourselves/ others from harm.
Avoiding punishment
Avoid embarrassment
Extravagance
Employer’s influence
Dissatisfied employees
Weak enforcement
Absence of proper accountability system
 HOW IT AFFECTS
o Harms / Breaks the relationship
o Lowers the morale of people
o Creates false personality
o Ruins your reputation
o Leads to complexities
o Loss of revenue
o Decrease in productivity
MALPRACTICES IN
EXAMINATIONS

BY-SA
 Examination malpractice is defined as any
deliberate act of wrong doing, contrary to the
rules of examinations designed to give a
candidate an undue advantage.

Examination malpractice has done a lot of harm

to students since many of them have neglected
their books with the hope of performing the
magic they are used to in every examination
FORMS OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE :

Leakage: This means that the content of examination or part of it is disclosed prior to
taking the examination. Usually it involves one or more of the following: staff members of
the examination authorities, printers, proof readers, and messengers.

Impersonation: An individual who is not registered as a candidate for a particular

examination takes the place of one that is registered. Usually this involves collusion
between the chief examiner and the examination supervisor. It frequently involves tertiary
institutions students taking the test for monetary reward or a favour for a girl friend or boy
friend.
Copying: Copying from another candidate‟s work with or
without permission.

Collusion: Unauthorized passing of information between

candidates usually by exchanging notes or scripts. This is
usually facilitated by inadequate spacing between desks
and laxed supervision.
• Laziness, lack of preparation or in-adequate preparation for examination, lack of self
confidence, poor school facilities, (Lack of or in-adequate examination hall) poor sitting
arrangement, socio-economic factors, political-undertone, privatization and
commercialization of education, poor invigilation, weak parental function.

Proper Conduct during Examination:

 Students shall be at the examination hall at least 30 minutes earlier to the

advertised time for the examination

 Students must produce their registration and identity cards to every

examination and leave them conspicuously displayed on the desk for the
inspection of the invigilators throughout the examination

 Students shall write their registration numbers not names clearly at the
appropriate place on the cover of the answer booklet and separate sheet(s)
attached to the answer booklet.
 PLAGIARISM

According to the dictionaries;

“to steal and pass off the words and
ideas of another as one’s own.

• Plagiarism comes from the

Latin language, meaning “to
kidnap.”
TWO TYPES OF
PLAGIARISM: INTENTIONAL
AND UNINTENTIONAL

Intentional Plagiarism
• Submitting pre-written papers
• Cutting and pasting from more than one
source ,Borrowing words or ideas from others
without giving credit.
Unintentional Plagiarism
• Lazy paraphrasing and quoting.
• Haphazard citations.
• Lack of understanding of the research process.
• Disengagement from the research process.
Plagiarism is unethical for two reasons:
 Firstly, it is unethical because it is a form of
theft. By taking the ideas and words of others
and pretending they are your own, you are
stealing someone else’s intellectual property.
 Secondly, it is unethical because the
plagiarizer subsequently benefits from this
theft.

Consequences of plagiarism?
• It considered as a crime in some countries and
colleges.

• Sometimes people may get

debarred form colleges and
countries.
• Pay high fines and even lawsuits.
PREVENTION
OF PLAGIARISM:
In many colleges there is a separate
committee for it.

Making your own notes and including your

ideas and views.

Accepting your failures or mistakes to get

better in the projects that are done.
 STEALING
• PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
 WHAT IS STEALING?
First thing which comes to our mind is “stealing is just
the taking of another person’s property without their
consent”

It is not always clear that stealing comfortably fits this

definition, for eg: if someone fails to pay the taxes does
that mean he has “stolen” money just by refusing to hand
over their financial property to the government?

Or for example if the owner gives you consent to take

that item but even then you steal it, is it still stealing or
not?

That is why we need a rather broad definition for stealing

which includes even the acts which are morally
acceptable.
CAN STEALING BE MORALLY
ACCEPTABLE?

“Take the property of others only when it is necessary for

survival”

Consider a scenario where a poor kid steals food for their

family, or the classic robin hood, stealing from the rich and
donating it to the poor, these cases are morally correct
right, but it is still stealing, but we can accept it, as our
ethics and values suggests.

So to sum it up, whenever there is a case of stealing

instead of acting aggresively on it, we should first consider
the scenario, consult our values to see if it’s morally
denfensible, and proceed with a more human-way
possible.
 THANK YOU!
PRESENTED BY:
-N Nagathevan(20BEE1109)
-Ravi Prakash (20BEE1111)
-Aditya Chandrayan (20BEE1113)
-Aastha Mandalia (20BEE1114)
-Arbbaz Ali A S(20BEE1115)