Ethics, Professionalism and Governance

Running head: ETHICS, PROFESSIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE
Ethics, Professionalism and Governance
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1ETHICS, PROFESSIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE
Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................ 2
3 values from the ACS Code of Ethics................................................................................2
Resolving the Situation.......................................................................................................2
Relevant Australian legislation applying to the scenario.....................................................3
Solving the Ethical Dilemma...............................................................................................3
Conclusion............................................................................................................................. 3
References............................................................................................................................. 5

2ETHICS, PROFESSIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE
Introduction
In any professional conduct it is important to maintain the ethical professionalism.
This is the way by which a person conducts their professional behaviour not meaning to
cause harm to a particular person on the organisation as a whole involved with their
profession. Following is a case study about a web design consultancy company that hires
James to interview their staff and ascertain the current knowledge regarding the type of
training courses that the organisation needs to implement (Kuespert 2017). It was informed
to James that the information that has been gathered from the interviewees is to remain
private. But he was still asked by the senior vice President of the organisation about the
information regarding the particular individuals and which employer did the best in the study.
Thus, the following report would ascertain the values derived from ACS codes of ethical
conduct in professionalism for resolving the ethical dilemma that James is right now facing.
3 values from the ACS Code of Ethics
The ACS codes of ethical professional conduct is a part of the ACS constitution ascot
the legislation of the Australian government, which states that every professional person
should honour the dignity and effectiveness of their professional conduct and be a good
citizen by acting for conducting their professionalism within the limitations of the law and
adherence to the societal values (Zeki 2019). The way by which James would be ethical to
his professional conduct according to the ACS codes of professional conduct can be
described as follows with regards to three of the identified values:
Honesty: according to the codes of conduct regulated by the Australian law, a
person needs to be honest in the representation of their knowledge, skills, products and
services. Since James was invited to evaluate the employees in the organisation conducting
an interview and figure out what more training does the company names without sharing the
information gathered from the employees, he would under no circumstances indulge in
sharing the information to the senior vice president of the organisation (Leicester 2016).
Professionalism: according to the Australian codes of ethics, it is important that a
person enhances the integrity of the society by respecting the members involved within his
or her workplace. The employees of the web based organisation and their information is
extremely confidential as explained in the terms and conditions of the contract under which
James had been working (Burmeister 2017). Therefore he should maintain the integrity of
the society and respect the employees by not divulging their confidential information even if
the senior vice President of the organisation asks for it.
Professional development: it is important that a person should enhance their own
professionalism as well as that of their colleagues and staff (McDermid 2015). Therefore it is
important that James not just only refrain from sharing the confidential information about the
interview but should also make the vice president be aware of the professional conduct so
he would also not ask for it again and be under the integrity of his own professional conduct.
Resolving the Situation
If the ACS codes of ethics are followed, then first and foremost when James was
invited by the web development and design consultancy organisation to interview their staff
and ascertain the current knowledge and inform the company about the type of training
courses that they need to implement, it is also the responsibility of the web design
consultancy company that they should we also following the Australian legislation about the
codes of conduct. Maintaining a security they had mentioned that the individual information