Universal Human Values

Unit 4
By: Neha Guliani
Professional Ethics

Professional Ethics

1. Value based Life and Profession.

2. Professional Ethics and Right Understanding.
3. Competence in Professional Ethics.
4. Issues in Professional Ethics – The Current Scenario. Understanding
Value based Life and Profession
• When you're living a values-based life, you have a very good
sense of the qualities, beliefs, and standards for behavior that
are really, truly important to you—in other words, your values.
How do human values affect the life of
professional?
• The individual's values are a good predictor of her/his
behaviour in the workplace. Hence, the organisations would
certainly prefer a candidate with clarity about her/ his values, in
addition to the required competencies. While in a job, your
values guide your behaviour, which ultimately builds your brand
over time.
What is human value and professional
ethics?
• Basic human values refer to those values which are at the core of
being human. The values which are considered basic inherent values
in humans include truth, honesty, loyalty, love, peace, etc. because
they bring out the fundamental goodness of human beings and
society at large. Importance of Human Values.
CODE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
• Professionally accepted standards of personal and business behaviour, values and guiding principles.
• Codes of professional ethics are often established by professional organizations to help to guide
members in
• performing their job functions according to sound and consistent ethical principles
• Professional ethics may be understood as professionally acknowledged measures of individual and
business conduct, values, and guiding principles. Professional ethics is nothing but a code of conduct
applicable to different professions and is set up by the expert members of such profession or
professional organizations.

• The underlying philosophy of having professional ethics is to make the persons performing in such jobs
to follow the sound, uniform ethical conduct. Hippocratic Oath undertaken by medical students is one
such example of professional ethics that is adhered by even today. Some of the important components
of professional ethics that professional organizations necessarily include in their code of conduct are
integrity, honesty, transparency, respectfulness towards the job, confidentiality, objectivity etc.
Need for Professional Ethics
• Professional ethics are accepted standards of personal and business behaviour, values and guiding
• principles. Codes of professional ethics are established by professional organizations to help to
guide
• members in performing their job functions according to sound and consistent ethical principles.
Professional
• ethics is set up by the expert members of such profession or professional organizations. The
underlying
• philosophy of having professional ethics is to make the persons performing in such jobs to follow
the sound,
• uniform ethical conduct. Professional organizations necessarily include components like integrity,
honesty,
• transparency, respectfulness towards the job, confidentiality, objectivity etc. in their code of
conduct.
Why are professional values important?
• Someone who displays professional values will: portray a
professional image through reliability, consistency and
honesty. dress and act appropriately. deliver work outcomes to
agreed quality standards and timescales.
What are the values of the profession?
• Professional values to adopt in the workplace
• Strong work ethic. Work ethic is a trait that most employers look for right away
in an employee. ...
• Responsibility. ...
• Integrity. ...
• Honesty. ...
• Reliability. ...
• Adaptability. ...
• Accountability. ...
• Self motivation.
What are professional and personal values?
• Personal ethics refers to the ethics that a person identifies with in
respect to people and situations that they deal with in everyday life.
Professional ethics refers to the ethics that a person must adhere to in
respect of their interactions and business dealings in their
professional life.
What are the 4 aspects of being professional?
• But those four aspects to being a professional are simply knowing,
doing, helping, and learning. So I've added learning to that.
competence in professional ethics
• Ethical competence is often described as an experience acquired
through the combination of knowledge and practice. For example,
Park and Peterson (2006) find that individuals who do not possess
strength of character might not “do what is correct” or “take correct
action” in a given situation.
competence in professional ethics
• What is competence in ethics?
• Ethical competence contain components such as the capability to
identify ethical problems, knowledge about the ethical and moral
aspects of care, reflection on one's own knowledge and actions, and
the ability to make wise choices and carefully manage ethically
challenging work situations
• What is professional competence mean?
• Professional competencies are skills, knowledge and attributes that
are specifically valued by the professional associations, organizations
and bodies connected to your future career.
• Why is competence important for professionals?
• Well-defined competencies can help foster a strong corporate culture,
build a more aligned workforce and establish key competitive
differentiators. They also help make sure you have consistent
performance standards for employees, which can help with employee
engagement and retention.
• What are the types of competence?

• Some of the important core competencies include – decision making,

teamwork, work standards, reliability, motivation, adaptability,
problem-solving, integrity, communication, planning and organization,
stress tolerance, and initiative.
issues in professional ethics in current
scenario
• If you are to run an ethical business, you first need to know what types of issues
you can expect to face and may need to overcome.
• Discrimination. ...
• Harassment. ...
• Unethical Accounting. ...
• Health and Safety. ...
• Abuse of Leadership Authority. ...
• Nepotism and Favoritism. ...
• Privacy. ...
• Corporate Espionage.
• What are the major ethical issues facing the world today?
• Here are some of the ethical issues in business and real-world cases
of how these ethical issues have affected companies.
• Unethical Accounting. ...
• Social Media Ethics. ...
• Harassment and Discrimination. ...
• Health and Safety. ...
• Technology/Privacy.
• What are the 5 ethical issues?
• Ethical Issues in Business
• Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace. ...
• Health and Safety in the Workplace. ...
• Whistleblowing or Social Media Rants. ...
• Ethics in Accounting Practices. ...
• Nondisclosure and Corporate Espionage. ...
• Technology and Privacy Practices.
• What are the most urgent ethical issues in business today?
• Examples of ethical issues in business
• Discrimination and harassment. ...
• Workplace health and safety. ...
• Whistle-blowing or social media rants. ...
• Ethics in accounting practices. ...
• Corporate espionage and nondisclosure. ...
• Technology and privacy practices. ...
• Nepotism or favouritism. ...
• Environmental responsibility.