SEMESTER 2 / YEAR 1
OUMM3203
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
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LEARNING CENTRE : JOHOR LEARNING CENTRE
1.0) INTRODUCTION
Ethics is need to influence the way of an individual behave when the ethical theories has been optimize in practice. Many people always behave unreasonably. Even though they know should take moral action, but they still will just follow their “gut instinct”. Base on an article found in BBC, it acknowledged that some philosophers think that ethics may lead to this. They disagree that if a person feel that it would be morally will be good to do something then to not do it which would be irrational for that person. However, ethics does provide a good tool for thinking about moral issues. According to Ho, J. A., et al. (2012), it stated that ethics can commonly to be defined as the principles of morally acceptable manner of an individual. According to Brandt, infants and small children do not have a code of ethics, because the code of ethics is not a natural but must be learned by individuals. There are five factors that led to the formation of the ethics. The factor is family influence, peer influence, life experience, personal values and morals, situational factors. Moral value develop individual ethical with a goal in what is sometimes ignored the consequences that occurred in the community around it and the factors surrounding the individual which can change the ethical practice because the factors are desperate to surrounding conditions.
2.0) CONTENT
2.1) Family Influence
Individuals are starting to form ethical standard as children in response to their awareness of their parent’s behavior. Children are more probable to adopt high ethical standards when they see that their family members stick to high standards and if they receive punishment