Intro to Professional Ethics

what is professional ethics?

• analysis and determination of how members of a group of professionals act when judged against a system of values.

what else is a factor of professional ethics?

• fundamentally aspirational in nature and focus on the highest ideals of human awareness, intentions, reasoning and behaviours.

what are values?

• concept of what is good, such as honesty and generosity.

what are values acknowledged?

• thought and action, what is bad, such as greed and cruelty that are repudiated.

what did the heinz dilemma teach?

• should look at the situations in everyone’s perspective.

• looking at every details and reasoning as to why each decision was made.

• getting more information by asking more questions.