This document discusses professional ethics. It defines a profession as requiring advanced education and training, and being regulated by standards. Professional ethics encompass personal and corporate standards of behavior expected in a profession. They are concerned with one's conduct when carrying out professional work. Professional ethics codes typically include components like honesty, integrity, transparency, accountability, confidentiality, objectivity, respectfulness, and obedience to law. These principles guide professionals in their daily work and interactions.

1. PROFFESSIONALETHICS

2. WHAT IS A PROFESSION?
A profession as a vocation requiring advanced
education and training.
A profession is a job that requires specific training
and is regulated by certain standards.
According to Roscoe Pound he defined profession
as a group pursuing a learned art as a common
calling in the spirit of public service.

3. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized high
educational training, the purpose of which is to supply
objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and
definite compensation.
Professional ethics encompass the personal and
corporate standards of behavior expected of
professionals.
Professional Ethics is concerned with one’s behavior and
conduct when carrying out professional work. It is
codified and varies across different cultures.
Professional ethics the ethical norms, values, and
principles that guide a profession and the ethics of
decisions made within the profession.

4. Consequences
based Ethics-
outcomes
Ideal based
Ethics-
character
Principle
based Ethics-
rules, codes,
standards
Professional
Ethics

5. DEFINITION OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Banks (2003) explains that “a code of ethics is
usually a written document produced by a professional
association, occupational regulatory body, or other
professional body with the stated aim of guiding the
practitioners who are members, protecting service
users and safeguarding the reputation of the
profession”.
The Secondary Education Commission has stated
“They (teachers) will not look upon their work as an
unpalatable means of carrying a scanty living but as an
avenue through which they are rendering significant
social services as well as finding some measure of self-
fulfilment and self-expression.”

6. CONCEPT OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Professional ethics is a set of beliefs that a teacher
accepts concerning relationships with students,
colleagues, employers, and parents(or guardians
and caregivers of children), all of whom are
stakeholders in the life of the teacher. These
principles guide the teacher in their daily activities
in working with their stakeholders
Professional ethics give a certain set of broad
principles derived in turn from a spectrum of
values which are arrived at after deep philosophical
reflection on the nature and role of the profession
in the life of mankind.

7. COMPONENTS OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Some professional organizations may define their ethical
approach in terms of a number of discrete
components. Typically these include:
Honesty
Integrity
Transparency
Accountability
Confidentiality
Objectivity
Respectfulness
Obedience to the Law

8. HONESTY
Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and
denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as
integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness
along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft.
“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose
myself.”
-William Shakespeare

9. INTEGRITY
Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions,
values, methods, measures, principles, expectations,
and outcomes. Integrity can be regarded as the
opposite of hypocrisy, that it regards internal
consistency as a virtue.
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and
knowledge without integrity is dangerous and
dreadful.”
- Samuel Johnson

10. TRANSPARENCY
Transparency is a general quality. It is implemented
by a set of policies, practices and procedures. It allow
citizens to have accessibility, usability, utility,
understandability, in formativeness and auditability
of information and process held by centers of
authority (society or organizations).
“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep
sense of insecurity.”
-Dalai Lama

11. ACCOUNTABILITY
Accountability is often used synonymously with such
concepts as answerability, blameworthiness, liability. It
is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility
for actions, products, decisions, and policies and be
answerable for resulting consequences. It cannot exist
without proper accounting practices.
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should
remember that four of his fingers are pointing at
himself.”
— Louis Nizer

12. CONFIDENTIALITY
Confidentiality is an ethical principle of discretion
associated with the professions, such as medicine, law,
psychotherapy. In business, the confidentiality of
information, a mainstream adaptation of the “need to
know” .
Confidentiality regarding: 1. Whose interests 2. Which
interests
Confidential information of: 1. Worker 2. Employer 3.
Colleague 4. Competitor
“In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of
information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.”
-Gijs de Vries

13. OBJECTIVITY
Objectivity is a principle of journalistic
professionalism. Objectivity in journalism enables
highly accelerated news reporting and delivery,
which sometimes is at tension with standards of
objectivity.
“The belief in objectivity is a faith in 'facts,' a distrust
in 'values,' and a commitment to their segregation.“
-Michael Schudson

14. RESPECTFULNESS
Respect gives a positive feeling of esteem for a person and
conduct representative of that esteem. Respect can be a
specific feeling of regard for the actual qualities of the one
respected. Rude conduct is usually considered to indicate a
lack of respect, disrespect, whereas actions that honor
somebody or something indicate respect. The opposite of
respect is contempt.
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the
garbage man or the president of the university.”
-Albert Einstein

15. OBEDIENCE TO LAW
Law is the set of enforced rules under which a society is
governed. Law is one of the most basic social institutions-
and one of the most necessary. The law thus establishes the
rules that define a person's rights and obligations. The law
also sets penalties for people who violate these rules. In
fact, laws frequently are changed to reflect changes in a
society's needs and attitudes. Law is a system of rules and
guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to
govern behavior.
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its
breach is more so.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

17. GLOSSARY
Vocation- a strong feeling of suitability for a
particular career or occupation.
Encompass- surround and have or hold within.
Consequence- a result or effect, typically one that
is unwelcome or unpleasant.
Unpalatable- difficult to put up with or accept.
Rendering- a performance of a piece of music or
drama.
Integrity- the quality of being honest and having
strong moral principles.

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