Importance of Academic and Professional Integrity

This article discusses the definition and importance of academic and professional integrity. It explores the significance of these concepts in the education and industry sectors, and provides insights on their application and comparison.

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Definition of academic and professional integrity:
Academic integrity is the ethical policy of academia. Late Don McCabe is called as "grandfather
of academic integrity”. According to me, the role of the academic integrity refers to avoiding
plagiarism. It defines making sure that one provide credit to any other person whose work one
use instead of claiming that works of others. The definition of academic integrity is to refrain
from cheating the rules that have been set down for a specific assignment. I have seen my
professor who is having academic integrity and found that this attitude makes him the more
trustworthy person in the view of others. So, it can be said that academic integrity entails
fairness, responsibility, respect, fairness and trust.
In the context of professional integrity, I have analyzed that a professional is one who eagerly
adopts and continuously applies the skills, knowledge, and values of the selected profession.
Integrity can be the most effective word used to elaborate the person who has the desire to act
continuously as per social standards of society (Stout, 2011). I have observed that professional
integrity can be maintained through anticipating ethical conflicts, communicating with civility
and giving proper attention to the ongoing society. Ethical behaviour and professional integrity
are vital for personal credibility and professional success in the business world (Moate, 2011).
The role of personal credibility is huge in building good bonding on the basis of mutual respect
and trust, providing to attaining outcomes. In a nutshell, it shall be stated that professional
integrity refers the professional behaviour within the workplace, no matter what kind of situation
is ongoing.
Significance
Importance of academic integrity

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A person who has integrity is someone who is reliable and honest. For students, their values and
morals demonstrate their credibility and character. At university, upholding academic integrity at
the time of earning a degree, represent their honest academic completion. Academic integrity is
imperative within the professional world and university. For instance, in 2015, two doctors of
Toronto, were pressurized to apologise for scientific paper from the American Journal of
Pathology because of the allegations of misrepresentation. The second article of them has been
apologised for concerns of misrepresentation. It has been found that one of them was not
involved in such a scenario but both of their names on the paper. One of them resigned from
their position, a title she held for over a decade. These consequences of these sorts of allegations
can put an adverse impact on the credibility of all researchers (Cairns, 2017).
Importance of professional integrity
I will improve an account of professional integrity in the form of distinct virtue, entailing
receptiveness of assurance as well as fidelity. This perception will be enhanced in a loosely
Aristotelian process, as an answer to both alternatives that produce to be professional integrity.
One of these perceptions highlights loyalty to the ends of practice of professional, as in education
or health; this can be referred to as the technological view. There is another alternative defines
professional integrity as a substance of conceptually and assurance identical to common
integrity, this can be referred to as generic view (Wiseman, Haynes and Hodge, 2013).
Professional integrity is discrete from commonplace truthfulness but not on account of a direct
promise to profession-specific ends. What builds professional integrity different is the way in
which it calls for an interpretive decision of what the role necessitate.
Application:

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Apply academic integrity within the education and industry sectors
I should conduct the seminar for making aware people regarding academic integrity within the
industry and education sectors. It would be helpful for me to elaborate on the importance of
academic integrity in both sectors. I will focus on below major points in applying academic
integrity within the education and industry sectors:
Resolution by Documented Agreement
The faculty member will list a formal conference with the student for the attempt to reach an
equally agreeable resolution. This conference should be requested within ten calendar days of the
inspection of the violation not present unusual situations (Bretag et. al., 2011). Along with that to
avoid academic misconduct in education, proper use of reference will be used for providing
genuine information.
Resolution by Formal Adjudication
By focusing of formal adjudication, the faculty member must file a Documented Agreement
Referral Form within 10 days of the observation of the violation of the failure to complete a
determination by Resolution by Documented Agreement (IUP, 2007).
Apply professional integrity within the education and industry sectors
The application of professional integrity within education sector can be done by maintaining
professional relationships with a huge range of learners, interaction with parents, react ethically
develop positive values and increase professional standards. On the other hand, professional
integrity can be applied in the industry sector by focusing on helping others and make them learn

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what they need to know. The right term of integrity is doing the right things at the right time for
the right reasons even when no one is looking for (Rhode, 2016).
Comparison
As per my understanding regarding both concepts of academic and professional integrity, it is
easy to compare both concepts because academic integrity is concerned about the plagiarism
issue and academic misconduct. On the other hand, professional integrity referred the way of
interacting with others within the workplace in goo manner and helps others regarding their
confusion about the work. Both are different from each other but the motive of both is similar as
it comprises features of trustworthiness, reliability, focus and devotion towards work. With my
previous understanding, academic and professional integrity were just the way of ethics that
comprise proper manner to communicate with others. But, my current understanding states that
the academic and professional integrity is not bound till communication with others or follow
guidelines as it covers research and referencing skills that make academic integrity at a high
level.
Research
With the help of the article of Stout, I have found the meaning of professional ethics and
academic integrity in education. On the other hand, I have gone through the importance of the
role of professional integrity in education and industry through the journal article of Moate. I get
knowledge regarding implementation of professional integrity with the help of the credible
source of Wiseman, Haynes and Hodge.

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Referencing
Bretag, T., Mahmud, S., Wallace, M., Walker, R., James, C., Green, M., East, J., McGowan, U.
and Patridge, L., 2011. Core elements of exemplary academic integrity policy in Australian
higher education. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 7(2).
Cairns, B. 2017. The Importance of integrity in business. Available [online]
https://www.business.com/articles/importance-of-integrity/ Accessed on 13th April 2019.
IUP, 2007. Academic Integrity Policy and Procedures. Available [online]
https://www.iup.edu/graduatestudies/catalog/university-policies/academic-policies/academic-
integrity-policy-and-procedures/Accessed on 13th April 2019.
Moate, J.M., 2011. The impact of foreign language mediated teaching on teachers’ sense of
professional integrity in the CLIL classroom. European Journal of Teacher Education, 34(3),
pp.333-346.
Rhode, D.L., 2016. Professional Integrity and Professional Regulation: Nonlawyer Practice and
Nonlawyer Investment in Law Firms. Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., 39, p.111.
Stout, B., 2011. Professional ethics and academic integrity in police education. Policing: A
Journal of Policy and Practice, 5(4), pp.300-309.
Wiseman, A., Haynes, C. and Hodge, S., 2013. Implementing professional integrity and
simulation-based learning in health and social care: An ethical and legal maze or a professional
requirement for high-quality simulated practice learning?. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 9(10),
pp.e437-e443.