PRAYER

Dear Lord and Father of all,

Thank you for today.
Thank you for ways in which you provide for us
all.For your protection and love we thank you.Help us
to focus our hearts and minds now on what we are
about to learn.Inspire us by Your Holy Spirit as we
listen and write.
Guide us by your internal life as we discover more
about the world around us.
We us all this in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
Ethical Communication
“Ethics is the difference between
what you have a right to do and what is right to
do.”
- Potter Stewart

Reporters :
Angelika Eugenio
Arabella Morales
 OBJECTIVES
 What is Ethical Communication?
What does it mean to be an ethical
communicator?
How can you be an ethical
communicator when delivering a public
speech?
 Importance of Ethical
communication
 Ten Basics of Ethical
Communication
 ETHICS
- A system of moral
principles
- Deals with values relating to
human conduct, with respect to the
rightness and wrongness of certain
actions and to the goodness and
badness of the motives and ends of
such actions.
COMMUNICATION
- the act or process of communicating,
fact of being communicated.

- the imparting or interchange of thoughts

opinions or information by speech,
writing or signs.

• Competent communicators are

ethical.
 Ethical Communication
• Refers to the practice of
conveying honest information in a
manner that is not intended to be
misleading.
• Moreover, ethical communication
enhaces human worth and dignity
by fostering truthfulness,
fairness, responsibility, personal
integrity, and respect for self and
others.
 Ethical
Communicator
- Treatpeople fairly,
communicate honestly, and
avoid immoral or unethical
behavior.
 Be an ethical communicator
when delivering a public
speech
• Share information only from
reputable sources.
•Understand the information you are
sharing! If you don't understand what
that research is saying, ask a professor
to help you make sense of it.
• Verbally cite your sources
during your presentation!

• If you are presenting

something that isn't a fact,
make sure you are honest
and clear that you are merely
speculating, not presenting
factual information.
• Avoid using offensive language!

• Avoid exposing your audience to

sensitive sights and sounds.

• It is up to you to know your

audience and prepare and deliver
your speech with their best
interest in mind!
 Importance of Ethical
Communication
• Helps you discover and
make explicit your ethical
positions and standars.
• Enables you to diagnose the
ethical position of your
interlocutors.
• Provides you with a conceptual
framework that will guide you towards
becoming a consistent ethical
business communicator.
 Ten Basics of Ethical
Communication
1.Seek to “elicit the best” in
communications and interactions
with other group members.
2. Listen when others speak.
3. Speak non-judgementally
4. Speak from your own experience
and perspective, expressing your
own thoughts, needs and feelings.
5. Seek to understand others.
6. Avoid speaking for others, for
example by charactering what others
have said without checking your
understanding.
7. Manage your own personal
boundaries; share only what you are
comfortable sharing.
8.Respect the personal
boundaries of others.
9.Avoid interrupting and side
conversation.
10.Make sure that everyone
has time to speak, that all
members have relatively equal
“air time” if they want it.
Thank you
for listening !!!