Ethics, Professionalism and Governance

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ETHICS, PROFESSIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE
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Case Study 4
In every profession, there is need for its membership to adhere to the stipulated code of ethics.
The code of professional conduct comprise of ethical values that are major factors professional
conduct. The code of professional conduct is relevant to the legislation. This code could be used
as a claim for professional negligence. The purpose of this paper is to describe how ethics,
professionalism and governance can be used in the work environment to ensure that the
management of junior staff is achieved.
According to Chris McDonald’s methodology, Brenda should act ethical hence she will be able
to distinguish what is good and what is bad in carrying out her work. Behaving ethically will
enable her to promote the welfare of the accounting staff that she is managing. By acting
ethically, she will be able to embrace different kinds of ethical principles to decide the ethical
cause of action. Brenda might introduce fairness and justice to avoid being bias to some staff and
overlook their errors which lead to losses to the organization. The responsibility for the existence
of the accounting software should be spelt out by Brenda to avoid resistance to change or
imposing the accounting software to staff. The motivation for the Chris McDonald methodology
is that being a manager to the accounting staff, she can be able to carry out her duties ethically
and working contrary to that leads to failure in management. Therefore, Brenda should work to
promote and explore ethics and ethical decision making by ensuing that her management
functions such as the planning, organizing, controlling, delegation and staffing are in accordance
with the generally accepted ethics.
Brenda has been tasked with the responsibility of observing how junior staff is using the new
accounting system. In order to execute her duties well, she has to integrate the Code of