Professional_Ethics

Professional Values, Ethics, and Career Success All members of an organization showing the same values create an important tool for judgment making, assessing probable outcomes of contemplated actions, and choosing among alternatives. Values and ethics are essential to understand how a person or organization can be successful in seeking an education and a career. Values are ideas about the worth or importance of things, concepts, and people. Values could be the policy in how we create decisions concerning accuracy and inaccuracy. Ethics are the principles, or standards that guide professionals to do the right thing. Ethics is somewhat made up of what an employee or employer should do in his or her place of employment. Considering and implementing values and ethics in day-to-day practices will show strength of character to encourage ones accomplishments in his or her academic and professional career. Three sources of professional values and ethics are: Integrity, Respect, and Responsibility. They are the embodiment of what an organization stands for, and should be the basis for the behavior of its members (O’Brian, 2002) whereas ethics are the principles, or standards consistent with helping professionals realize what is considered to be right or wrong. Integrity is the one imperative value someone could be able to build up that will improve in his or her career. Acquiring integrity means being honest as well as straightforward. A strong case to illustrate integrity in the academic arena is the case of students using resources to complete a homework task aside from their own research and work, causing them to be in violation of the honor code (Jeffrey Pfeffer, 2003, Teaching the Wrong Lesson). Violation of the honor code, when dealing with values and ethics, can have severe consequences, like suspension from a university for plagiarism, or a prison term in the business world. Instance of a lack of values and ethics in the business would be the Enron debacle (Thomas, Cathy, 2002, Time Magazine) and the Ponzi Scheme that was planned by Bernie Madoff (Creswell, Julie and Thomas, Landon 2009, New York Times). In each of these instances, people decided to go against their code of ethics and act purely for their own benefit. Universities, businesses and organizations operating on ethical standards that act as rules that can be established by professionals to guide one another are special situations. Employers and employees are bound by a code of ethics, and professional values, which demonstrates a sign of respect to the company and shareholders of the company. Respect is an important value at every workplace. Treating all people with respect is essential. Showing regards to people with admiration of his or her skills as well as his or her difference of opinion. Exercising respect in the workplace means to work together as a team to maintain and respect the confidence of coworkers. Regrettably, disrespect for one's coworkers isn't that unusual. Being cruel frequently causes people to quit their jobs. This means losing good people for employers, and employing, and teaching new ones. For coworkers it means picking up the slack until new employees can be hired. The worst part of being disrespected in the workplace is that several people don't understand that he or she is being disrespectful. He or she isn’t trying to upset anyone. He or she just isn’t trying not to upset anyone. The main important thing to do rather than putting conditions on whether he or she will treat others with respect, respect others anyway, whether he or she are in the room or out of the room. “All the great innovations that occur within an organization and big wins and victories with clients or employees usually take place at the intersection between . . . people”. (Rath, 2006 Gallup study: Feeling Good Matters in the Workplace).