Professional Ethics And Professional Conduct

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IS PROFESSIONAL ETHICS RELEVANT FOR PROPER PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT? IN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS BY |MADU SIMON ONYEKACHI SS/PP/1958 JANUARY, 2011 INTRODUCTION There are certain actions which are generally regarded as morally wrong and ought not to be done by anybody, for example, murder, armed robbery etc. on the other hand there are also certain kinds of actions about which opinions differ- some consider them as wrong while others consider them as right. Examples of such actions are contraception, abortion, euthanasia, masturbation etc. now, why do we consider certain actions as right and others as wrong? And how do we decide which actions are right and which actions are wrong? These are the questions with which ethics deals. Also, in human relationships, ethics deals with questions that arise from professional-client relationships. How a professional should relate with is or her client. It concerns itself with ethical dilemmas that arise in professional-client relationships as well as problems in decision making when a professional is confronted by his own principles and values and the principles and values of the profession. Hence, from the above exposition it is axiomatic to suppose that there are ethics of different fields in reality such as business ethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, etc of which professional ethics is not exempted. The aim of this write-up is to expose critically professional ethics and to evaluate its relevance to professional conduct. Before I go about this task it is pertinent to clarify the concepts bordering this discourse: Profession, Professional ethics and Professional conduct; after which I will discuss
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