Personal Ethical Standards

c.) Professional standards for their discipline:

Many different occupations such as doctors, nurses, engineers, accountants etc. are regulated by various forms of professional standards. These standards exist to provide confidence that an employee has the knowledge and training to conduct their job within particular parameters. For example, when an engineer signs off his or her approval for the design of a bridge, everyone assumes that the engineer has performed all of the necessary analysis to ensure that the bridge will function as anticipated. If an employee does not maintain the professional standards for their discipline, then they erode the confidence that the other employees and the general public have in their ability to conduct their
An individual should maintain a high level of self-respect, and not push the boundaries of ethics and legality. Tensions can arise when there are differing perspectives of ethical standards between the employer and the employee. In essence this reflects the “fit” of an employee with an employer. A good “fit” occurs when an employee's standards are aligned with the companies, and are misaligned when they are not. According the textbook, Contemporary Business, the author, Louis Boone, states the three primary factors that influence business ethics are: personal experience, peer pressure, and organizational culture. Corporate culture that is in opposition to ethical standards may result in conflict. For example, if you believe that it is immoral to put animal in cages, you shouldn’t work for a zoo. Good business ethics and positive employee-employer relationships are developed when personal ethical standards mirror a company's ethical standards, which strengthens loyalty amongst employers and employees. This manifests itself in the way that companies work to maximize awareness of their corporate cultures. The company talks and trains people in ethics, in the hope that the ethics will be incorporated in the employee’s