Business Communication: Academic & Professional Integrity Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of academic and professional integrity within the context of business communication. It begins by defining academic and professional integrity, highlighting the importance of avoiding plagiarism and upholding ethical standards. The report explores the significance of integrity for students, employers, and the broader community, emphasizing its role in learning, skill development, and building trust. It then delves into the practical application of integrity in education and industry, examining how institutions and organizations address issues such as plagiarism and professional misconduct. The report further compares the understanding of integrity before and after study, emphasizing the evolution of referencing practices and the importance of acknowledging contributions. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing the key takeaways and reinforcing the crucial role of integrity in personal and professional success.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Academic and professional integrity...........................................................................................1
Importance..................................................................................................................................1
Application in education and industry sectors............................................................................2
Comparison.................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The present report would give brief discussion about academic and professional integrity
and comparison with past understanding and use within their studies.
Academic and professional integrity
Academic integrity signifies avoiding plagiarism as ensures to give credit to other person
whose work is used instead of claiming that work as own. It is commitment and demonstration of
moral and honest behaviour in academic setting (Kernbach, Eppler and Bresciani, 2015).
Professional integrity is replicated as professional who is consistently and willingly practices
within guidelines of mission of selected profession under obligation of code of ethics.
Importance
Academic and professional integrity is very important for various individuals as student,
community and future employers, clients or patients as well. As a student, one cheats in course
or another academic exercise, then opportunity has been missed for learning, developing and
improving skills and while retaining educational degree which shows own academic attainments.
It gives high value to degree as employers preference is to hire graduates with high personal
integrity and they would invest for developing human capital who would be positive influence on
organization and someone could be trusted for carrying mission of the organization. On basis of
intellectual community which lays emphasis on teaching and research as transmission, creation,
applying and sharing of knowledge is common activity related to community (Pearson, 2017). It
also violates fundamental values of community as cheating could hurt people with whom one
will work in the future. Usually, people are preparing for careers where services would be
offered to others such as journalistic, legal, research, medical etc. In case, one does not learn how
to do work, then future employers and clients will be cheated on basis of knowledgable
professional.
With reference to professional integrity and commitment level is very important as of
now, numerous people are fired each year for purpose of professional misconduct ranging
through fudging resumes till using inflated expense statements. The frauds are directly
dominating headlines of newspapers eroding trust and wealth of investor. Absence of
professional integrity does not harm personal brand but also professional standing as well
(Dubinsky, 2019). In bad market with various lay-offs, honesty and integrity is assumed more
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important for building the personal brand. Academic and professional integrity offers peace of
mind knowing the belief of performing right thing and tries to act consistently with beliefs. This
reduce lot of unnecessary stress in life, making healthier, happier and productive.
Application in education and industry sectors
With context to education sector, universities lays emphasis on sending student created
materials with reference to anti-plagirism checking service which would directly report that how
similar students performs to various sources of internet, database of library along with growing
pool of students does from other institutions. In the similar aspect, faculty members would
observe colour coded reported which is marked with percentage of similarity as high percentage
and hotter colour shows potential copying (Kelly and Romero, 2019). The administrators and
instructors utilise different tactic for ensuring that work their students performance is conducted
in different rigorous conditions which is actually performed or created but students themselves.
Moreover, with increment of online learning, academic integrity has formed different business
with organizations such as SafeAssign and Turnition offers comparison in students submission
against different big database of work of previous students. In several institutions, policies of
academic integrity there is presence of clear statements related to constitution of violation of
policy. Copying with a source with absence of attribution and getting someone else to take an
exam, writing paper and sharing answers to tests.
Institutions could undertake different actions for fostering the academic integrity across
campus with creation of campus-wide definitions and process of decisions. This comprises
policy of academic integrity and consistent penalties and definitions with reference to infractions
along with input through every stakeholder of campus such as faculty, support areas and
students. At initial level, known the students wither through personal contact or introducing with
icebreaker exercises. Further, model correct and incorrect processes as contribution of the course
and professor must give illustrations of poorly and well done content.
On basis of professional integrity, employees must act with integrity, compliance with
laws, maintaining professional work environment and comply with policies of organization in
different industry (Banks, 2016). The professional are expected to be punctual and regular in
attendance as tardiness and absenteeism burden other professionals and organization as well. It
signifies the best way to behave but this burnishes professional reputation and integrity of
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business leaders. The professional integrity is of consistent strive for being the best person with
interaction to others. Integrity in industry gives different advantages, not least but with critical
factor allows society and industry to function properly.
Comparison
Before studying academic and professional integrity, it leads others trust on another
person. The person with one deals and could rely and act honestly what one say and perform.
The entire world is on basis of ability for trusting each other and developing the best ethical
habits in college and industry leads to integrity and helps in facing ethical issues. It was tightly
correlated with academic honor code and was monitored mainly through students and
surrounding culture of time, it only laid emphasis on duty, pride, power along with self esteem. It
was tied solely to appearance and status of upstanding feature of individual. After this study, it is
referred as value, behaviour along with conduct of academics in every aspect of their practice
while noting term has been misappropriated for referring students conduct, related to behaviour
like cheating and plagiarism (Hultman and et.al., 2018). Simultaneously, referencing was just
stating link and after understanding, it allows for acknowledging the contribution of other writers
and researchers in work. Referencing is mode to give evidence for supporting assertions along
with claim in assignments and provides proper attribution to those from information and idea is
sourced.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that academic and professional integrity is very
important for every individual whether one is working or earnings. It has shown that referencing
enables one to make work to observe ideas and influences work is originated.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Banks, S., 2016. Professional integrity: from conformity to commitment. Rethinking Values and
Ethics in Social Work. p.49.
Dubinsky, J. M., 2019. Internationalizing the Association for Business Communication: A Long
Journey, One Step at a Time. Business Communication Research and Practice. 2(1). pp.1-
4.
Hultman, L. and et.al., 2018. Maintaining professional integrity: experiences of case workers
performing the assessments that determine children’s access to personal
assistance. Disability & Society. 33(6). pp.909-931.
Kelly, S. and Romero, A., 2019. Consequences of Sharing Invisible Chronic Health Conditions
at Work: Implications for Business Communication Education and Training. Business
Communication Research and Practice. 2(1). pp.13-21.
Kernbach, S., Eppler, M. J. and Bresciani, S., 2015. The use of visualization in the
communication of business strategies: An experimental evaluation. International Journal
of Business Communication. 52(2). pp.164-187.
Pearson, R., 2017. Business ethics as communication ethics: Public relations practice and the
idea of dialogue. In Public relations theory (pp. 111-131). Routledge.
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