Ethics and Professional Practice

Running Head: ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Ethics and professional practice
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ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Ethical theory and practices discusses the moral and honest path to conduct work and
oneself. Each practitioner on entering a profession is invested with the responsibility to
conduct him or herself morally and follow the ethical code of conduct at workplace.
Business ethics can be defined as the study of business policies, practices governing
corporate issues like responsibility, trading, discrimination at work and fiduciary
responsibility to mention a few. Longevity and success are primarily dependent on ethical
practices as poor ethics hurt culture, reduce retention rate and can impact productivity of the
company which in all will have an effect on the revenue of the enterprise (Trevino and
Nelson 2016).
When an enterprise or an organization does business, the organization needs to lay
down certain ethical foundation at work which the employees must adhere to. In my opinion,
leaders at work need to act virtuously to set an example for the peers (Pearson 2017). The
companies need to be diligent about enforcing ethical code and polices at work. I believe
community involvement at the work place can improve ethical practices in the company. To
improve positivity at work, I feel that there should be undivided trust among the employees
and the management. This will certainly help the organization to reach its goal. To
circumvent a negative environment at work, I feel conflict of interest should be avoided; if
not then the situation should be handled with respect.
Life cannot be thought without the intervention of IT services. There are numerous
ethical concerns pertaining to IT services. The objective of ethics in IT is to consider the
various attributes of computer system development, implementation and use. The backbone
of It services is data. The data generated is used for numerous reasons to get work done. So
now this becomes the duty and responsibility of the IT professionals and service providers to