STCO 357 discussion thread practitioner ethics
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STCO 357 discussion thread practitioner ethics
Can ethics be taught?
Yes, ethics can be taught. It is taught to be able to help students make independent decisions
on issues. Judgment is based on both ethics and choices that someone makes. Some choices
are only meant for maximization of an individual’s good while some people bring happiness to
the maximum number of people. Ethics helps in making choices as there is not a general set of
rules of conduct that everyone agrees with. Some choices are easier to make than others and
ethics come in handy. In the textbook, it states that “Outside the university, others question the
attempt to teach ethics in college courses in general, wondering if learning about ethics actually
makes people more ethical” (Wadsworth, 2013).
Can practitioners know ethical behavior? That is, can a practitioner know what is right and
wrong in professional practice, and yet not practice the behavior they know to be right? Explain
your answer.
No, the practitioners need to always act right in their professional practice. If the practitioners
keep doing things that are wrong and making the wrong decisions they will probably end up in
lawsuits. Every profession has its ethical guidelines that the members have to always work to
ensure that they act professionally. Some careers have gone to the extent of making them be
laws and if one goes against them they would be punished. Practitioners are required to express
a proper attitude and sense of responsibility all through their career since those are the values
and principles they are required to have.
Do you think practitioners become more ethical, less ethical, or remain about the same in their
ethics from the time they begin their careers to the time they are senior-level practitioners? Why?
The ethics of the practitioners depends on their attitudes accompanied by the environment in
which they are working in. For example, practitioners who work in a corrupt environment have to
become corrupt because the environment is teaching them to be like that, this can advance if no
consequences are imposed on the corrupt people. On the other hand, if the practitioner works in
an environment that is strict on the code of ethics then they will be more professional in their
career and they will always remain ethical in their duties. A verse that relates to this discussion
is Romans 2:1 “you, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at
whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass
judgment do the same things (Zondervan, New International Version 2002).
References
Newsom, D., Turk, J. V., & Kruckeberg, D. (2013).
This is PR: The Realities of Public Relations
.
Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Zondervan NIV Study Bible
(K. L. Barker, Ed.; Full rev. ed.). (2002). Zondervan.
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