Understanding Professional Ethics Principles

Understanding Professional Ethics

The concept of ethics applies to all situations in which professional performance should follow a system of both implicit and explicit moral rules of different types.

Professional ethics seeks to regulate the activities undertaken within the framework of a profession. In this sense, it is a discipline included in applied ethics as it relates to a specific part of reality.

General Professional Ethics

Professional ethics is intended to raise awareness of responsibility in each and every one of those who exercise a profession or trade. This stems from the assumption that every value is closely related to the idea of 'a good'. Professional ethics or decision-making is based primarily on the rational nature of man. This nature is spiritual and free; therefore, it has a will that feels like the moral good: 'Do good and avoid evil'.

A profession is a qualified capacity for the common good, with peculiar economic and social opportunities. The professional does not have that capacity simply by receiving the title that certifies or gives them professional quality. No one is professional *for* the title itself; the title merely expresses the quality of being a professional but does not guarantee all the qualities to be ethical. Being a professional is an intrinsic manifestation of what is carried internally, not by the nature of the person but by their moral qualities, such as the suitability or fitness which gives a new profile to their personality.

Dimensions and Implications of Professional Ethics

The dimensions of professional ethics involve responsibility to:

• The law
• Human rights
• The environment
• The community
• The organization
• The profession itself

Business Ethics and Human Resources

Business ethics is a requirement of the person, whatever their job. If genuine concern is maintained for employees by providing "dignity and respect", the worker is happy and motivated to produce quality.

In many companies immersed in competitiveness and lack of time, workers are often seen as "human resources". This can be interpreted as subjects who are not people but resources (with all the ethical implications that means). These resources are attractive to the extent that they comply with youth, dedication, results, identification with the company, an effort that goes beyond strict liability, ability to work together, being pleasant, knowing computers, and having an alternate language. Better yet if the cost is "low". This is the behavior of companies towards human resources, or rather, human talent, in the majority of companies that interact in a competitive environment. Yet, some companies do not hesitate to mention that people are one of their main assets.