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Title: Understanding the Importance


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  • Understanding the Importance
  • of Professional Ethics.

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Professional Ethics
  • Each group has certain expectations of behavior
    that are acceptable
  • Expectations must be communicated to the group
  • Sometimes there isnt a clear right or wrong in
    an ethical decision/situation

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Ethical Decision Making
  • Criteria
  • Is it legal?
  • Would you want the same thing to happen to you?
  • Ask a mentor. Does this person believe it is
    ethical?
  • What are the benefits and costs to all parties
    involved?

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Ethical Decision Making
  • Criteria Page 2
  • Would this practice be universally accepted?
  • Would you be proud to have your actions appear on
    TV or in the newspaper?

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Benefits of Ethical Behavior
  • Gain respect trust from others
  • Accountability of people you deal with
  • Security
  • Provides a guideline for the actions of those
    around you
  • Fairness
  • Insures that people in power will treat you
    fairly

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Consequences of Unethical Behavior
  • Loss of respect
  • No dependable expectations for those around you
  • Cost to group or company (Enron)
  • Legal Consequences (Enron)

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Ethics
  • Each group that we are involved with has a set of
    behavioral expectation that are accepted by the
    group that tell us whats acceptable and what's
    not. We call those rules or expectations ethics.

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Ethics
  • Ethical behavior can be ambiguous
  • Ethical behavior MUST be communicated clearly to
    ALL members of the group
  • Do you feel like the FFA has clearly defined
    standards for Official Dress and behavior?

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