WEEK#1

Professional Practices
Instructor: Sidra Zubair
Professional Practices
In which we will be able to understand:
1. Role and responsibility of a professional.
2. Structure of the organization/software houses
3. How these organizations works
4. Organizational financial practices & HRM techniques
5. Its related issues (Computer Misuse, Hacking, Risk Management, Social
Networking)
Questions to be solved:
• What is my identity?
• How I am different from others?
• What impact could I make to the society?
• How the world will remember me, when I left?
• What is purpose of my life? Why I am here?
Course Contents:

 Introduction to profession & Professionalism

 Organizational Structure
 Professional Ethics & Code of Conduct
 Intellectual Property Rights
 Financial Practices
 Risk Management
 Social Networking & Misuse
 Moral, Social & Ethical Issues Associated with Internet
 Computer Misuse & Criminal Law
 Information Security Practice
 Hacking
Introduction of Profession & Professionals

Profession:
• It is a way of earning, a paid occupation, especially one of the times with their own
qualification. E.g. Doctor, Nurse etc.

• An act of declaring that one has a particular feeling or quality.

e.g, teaching, medical, engineering etc.
• A profession is a disciplined group of individuals who follow to ethical
standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted by the public as
processing special knowledge and skills.

• A code of ethics governs the activities of each profession. Such code require
behavior and practice beyond the personal moral obligations of an
individual. They demand high standards of services provided to the public
and with professional colleagues.
(Australian Council of Professions)
Professionals
• Any person who earn their living from specified professional activity. It is a member of
profession. An activity that requires a certain level of education, skill or training.

Types of professionals:
• Accountant, Teacher, Technician, engineer, programmer, data scientist.
• Member of or relating to or belonging to a profession
• A person engaged or qualified in a profession.
• A person engaged in a specified activity, especially a sport, as a main paid occupation rather
than a pastime.
• The term professionals refers to anyone who earns their living from performing an activity
that requires a certain level of education, skill or training. There is typically a required
standard of competency, knowledge or education.
• A professional is a member of a profession. Professional are governed by code of ethics and
own commitment to competence, integrity (honesty) and morality, self sacrifice and the
promotion of the public good within their expert domain.
• Professionals are accountable to those they serve and to the society.
• A professional has a broader meaning typically around some moral or ethical foundation
within the practice of a specific and usually established expertise.
Professionalism
1. The competence or skill expected of a professional.
• “the key to quality and efficiency is professionalism”

2. Professionalism is commonly understood as an individual’s devotion to a set of standards,

code of conduct or collection of qualities that characterize accepted practice within the
particular area of activity.
Australian Council of Profession
• The personally held beliefs of a professional about their own conduct as a
member of a profession.

• It is often linked to the continuance of the principles, laws, ethics, and

conventions of a profession in the form of a code of practice.
Profession, Professional & Professionalism
• Through this knowledge and skills, professionals perform their specific role
within that profession. E.g, Doctor, Engineer and developer are professions
and the person who perform job related to this profession is professional.
Professionalism:
• It is a way of thinking and living rather than the knowledge we learn from
books.
Features of Professional
Any type of professional has four type of features:

1. Having special skills to perform various activities. E.g, Doctor has skills to
inject injection.
2. Social Centric motivation
3. Personal standards of excellence (Good Vs Bad)
4. Giving back to society (to give respect back to them)
Professionals behave Ethically
Ethics:
• Define social behaviors that what kind of efforts you did for the social life.
• It also means something more than law and morals
• It comes “Rightness”.

Law: Governing Bodies involve (Right or Not)

• Limitation of living that will be apply through governing activities or laws to the best society .

Morals: Community define, religion define, society

Breaks the Laws, Moral or Ethics
• Law: Can earn fine or jail
• Morals: Can ruin your reputation
• Ethics: Can ruin your awareness
• E.g, to make a line in bank may become a bigger issue, if break the rules and regulations
• Sometimes it may be possible to break all three actions
Features and Characteristic of Professional
• Seriousness
• Waiting to do better
• Dealing with the unexpected
• Communication Skills
• Enthusiasm
• Helpfulness
• Taking an Initiative
• Cool Under Pressure
• Remains Focused
• Don’t Follow, Lead
• Being Honest
• Supporting Others
The Computing Professional
• A computer professional is a person who works in the field of information technology. There
is a wide range of jobs for computer specialists in this field, and each job usually centers
around a specific set of knowledge or skills.
• Spreadsheets, DBMS, Data Science, Machine Learning, Development, Testing
• A computer professional can work virtually in any industry.
• Government agencies, hospitals and educational institutions , private industries , hire
computer professionals with basic and advanced computer knowledge.
• This knowledge mostly refers to hardware and software.
Purpose of Computing
• The purpose of computer is to perform calculations, store information, retrieves data and
process information.
• A computer has programmed data or computer language that tells the computer how to fulfill
its purpose.
• The computer will only do what it is programmed to do.
Types of Computing Professionals
• Network Administrator
• Computer Scientist
• Software Engineer
• System Analyst
• DB Administrator
• Data Scientist
• Intrusion Detection system analyst
• Digital Forensic Analyst
• Questions and Discussion