This slide contains meaning of profession, professional ethics and components of professional ethics.

1. PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS
Shalu Thakur

2. PROFESSION
A profession is a job that requires specific training
and is regulated by certain standards.
According to Roscoe Pound-
Profession is a group pursuing a learned art as a
common calling in the spirit of public service.
“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 direct and definite compensation”

3. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
 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.
 Professional ethics is the ethical norms, value and
principles that guide a professional and the ethics
of decision made within the profession.

4. PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS
Principle based
ethic- rules,
code, standards
Ideal based
ethics
character
Consequences
based ethics
outcomes

5. DEFINITION OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Secondary Education Commission has stated-
“They (teacher) will not look upon their word 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 fulfillment and self-expression”.
Banks(2003) explains that
“ A code of ethics is usually a written document produced by
professional association, occupational regulatory body, or other
professional body with the stated aim of guiding the practitioners
who are the members, protecting service users and safe guarding
the reputation of the profession”.

6. Components of
Professional
Ethics
Transparency
Integrity Respectfulness
Confidentiality
Obedient to the
law
Objectivity
Accountability
Honesty

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

8. 2. INTEGRITY
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and
knowledge without integrity is dangerous and
dreadful” – Samuel Johnson
Integrity is the concept of consistency 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.

9. 3. TRANSPARENCY
“ A Lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep
sense of in security” – Dalai Lama
Transparency is a general quality. It is implemented
by a set of policies, practices and procedures. It allow
citizens to have accessibilities, usability, utility,
understandability, in formativeness and auditability of
information and process held by centers of authority(
society or organization)

10. 4. ACCOUNTABILITY
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he
should remember that four of his fingers are
pointing at himself.” — Louis Nizer
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.

11. 5. CONFIDENTIALITY
“In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount
of information one can share. Confidentiality is
essential.” -Gijs de Vries
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

12. 6. OBJECTIVITY
. “The belief in objectivity is a faith in 'facts,' a distrust
in 'values,' and a commitment to their segregation”.
-Michael Schudson
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.

13. 7. RESPECTFULNESS
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the
garbage man or the president of the university.” -Albert
Einstein
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

14. 8. OBEDIENCE TO LAW
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its
breach is more so.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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.

15. TEACHER AND RESPONSIBILITIES
 Teacher is constantly constantly under the scrutiny
of his students and society.
 Make professional growth continuous through study
and research.
 Contribution of knowledge.
TEACHER AND STUDENTS
 Encourage students to improve their
achievements.
 Refrain from physical punishment, sexual abuse,
mental and emotional harassment.

16. THANK YOU

17. REFERENCES
 http://www.slideshare.net/pienga/professional-
ethics-presentation
 http://www.slideshare.net/tresdsdsd/06-
professional-ethics-code-of-ethics
 http://ethics.iit.edu/teaching/professional-ethics