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Chapter 3-Professional Ethics
Chapter 3-Professional Ethics
Learning objectives
- Understand what is (are) profession(s) and
responsibilities in professions
- Understand what is (are) professional ethics, ethical
codes
- Understand steps in making ethical decision
- Understand types of the relationships between
professions and customers; and approaches to sales
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What is profession?
• “A vocation, a calling, one requiring advanced knowledge or training
in some branch of learning or science” (Oxford Shorter Dictionary)
• Have specialized knowledge and skill
To be a member of a profession is to:
What is profession?
06 qualities of a professional practitioners of all disciplines:
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What is profession?
3 main professional characters
1. Professional pride
3. Environmental conscientiousness
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My associates
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citizens, countrymen)
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1. Data gathering
2. Value management
a. Personal ethical values
b. Professional ethical values (fundamental principles,
procedural principles)
c. Public values
d. Value conflict
3. Responsibility management (identifying
stakeholders, analysing stakeholders in term of
power and responsibilities, negotiating
responsibility)
4. Reflecting on options and planning
5. Implementing
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Discussion
1. What do you see as the foundation of your ethical practice?
2. What informs your understanding of right and wrong, good
or bad behaviour?
3. Where does that understanding come from? Your family,
your culture, your community, your religion, your school,
your place of work, your university?
4. What difference do your different foundations make to each
other?
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Group exercise
- Choose a particular profession and search
its code of conduct (if any)
- Find actual scandal relating to that
profession
- Use ethical theories and professional ethics
understanding to analyse what is wrong or
right in your case
- Prepare slides and present your viewpoint
within 10-15 min to your classmates
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