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Professional Ethics

What are professional ethics?

  • Self governance for organizational rules 
  • They require the individual to think of larger structures 
  • Situated Connection to morality 
    • Morality takes more intentional acts to break 
    • Ethics are specific (to profession, to business) 
    • Morality is ingrained; ethics must be learned 
    •  Morals can be different (or can they)

What’s in violation of professional ethics?

  • Plagiarism 
  • Something that breaks guidelines or codes of conduct 
  • Manipulation, false information 
  • Theft of trade secrets 
    • Like the Coke formula