Professional and Ethical Practice

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Professional and Ethical Practice
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1PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL PRACTICE
Ethics can be considered as the most significant moral values, which lead human being to
choose in between right and wrong. Ethical behavior in business is highly imperative factor for
running business in a relevant manner (Crane and Matten 2016). This reflective paper will put
forth the discussion of my learning experience in the professional and ethical practice course.
The fifth week deals with the value of ethics in freedom of expression, from which I have
learned about the basis of protecting the freedom of expression in the United States. I have
learned about the core federal laws which can have a firm impact on influencing the freedom of
expression (Young 2017). I have learned about the first amendment. This plays a very significant
role in protecting the freedom of religion along with different forms of expression such as the
visual, non-verbal along with the fundamental right of speaking anonymously. The negative
aspects such as ambiguous speech, usage of negative word are not being protected by the
amendment.
In the sixth week, I have learned about the intellectual property. I have learned about the
significance protecting the intellectual property for the companies. Intellectual property can be
defined as the creative peace of work that is owned by a certain person or a group of people
(Drahos 2017). I have learned about different constitutional regulations of protecting intellectual
property which are very much required for avoiding any kind of infringement in business. This
week has also helped me to gather knowledge regarding the trademark infringement and
licensing agreement that are required for protecting the creative aspect of business.
Seventh week deals with the mode of software development from which I have gathered
extensive knowledge regarding the process control mechanism. At the same time, I have also
learned about the issues, being encountered by the software developers. Different elements of
software development have also been explored by me in this week. High quality of software