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Managing Personal and Professional Ethics
Managing Personal and Professional Ethics
Managing Personal and Professional Ethics
and Professional
Ethics
Prepared by:
Angela Lagahit Bon
MAM-AS
• For example in a government, one of their professional ethics is
confidentiality and you should respect your colleagues specially
your superior. As a head of Human Resources Office you are
task in hiring employees, but your superior told you to hire the
daughter of her friend with bad credentials unlike the other
applicants who has excellent credentials and skills. And this is
against your personal ethics in which you didn't want to tolerate
nepotism or bias due to one’s personal life. One should hire only
based on the credentials of the applicant. One should always
look at the bottom line. And in this case your personal ethics
will be compromise.
When you find yourself struggling to reconcile your
personal ethics with your professional ethics here are
three things to think about: