What Are Professional Ethics?

The concept of professional ethics is broad and narrow. The broader professional ethics refers to the code of conduct that practitioners should follow in their professional activities, covering the relationship between practitioners and service objects, occupations and employees, and occupations and occupations. The professional ethics in the narrow sense refers to the professional behavior codes and norms that should be followed in certain professional activities, reflect certain professional characteristics, and adjust certain professional relationships. Different professional personnel have formed special professional relationships in specific professional activities, including the relationship between professional subjects and professional service objects, relationships between professional groups, relationships between people within the same professional group, and Relationship between professional workers, professional groups and the state. ^[1]

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Professional ethics

Good career

Treat work

· My job, my love (love my job)

· Unruly,

In a nutshell, professional ethics should mainly include the following aspects: loyalty to their duties and willingness to dedicate; seeking truth from facts and not falsifying; acting according to law and strictly maintaining secrets; fairness and transparency, and serving the society.

1. Be loyal to your duties and be willing to give

Respect and dedication, is a kind of

1. Professional ethics has a limited scope of application.

Each occupation has a specific occupational responsibility and occupational obligation. Due to the different professional responsibilities and obligations of various professions, specific specifications of their respective professional ethics are formed.

2. Professional ethics has historical inheritance of development.

Due to the characteristics of continuous development and continuation of generations, not only its technical continuation from generation to generation, but also its methods of managing employees and its methods of dealing with service objects have certain historical inheritance. Such as "no teaching, no class", "not tired of learning, tireless" is always the teacher's professional ethics.

3.Various forms of professional ethics expression

Because the requirements of various professional ethics are more specific and detailed, their expressions are various.

4. Professional ethics has strong discipline.

Discipline is also a kind of

Professional ethics is an important part of the social ethics system. On the one hand, it has the general role of social ethics, and on the other hand, it has its own special functions.

1. Regulate the relationship between the employees and the employees and service objects in professional exchanges.

The basic function of professional ethics is the regulation function. On the one hand, it can regulate the internal relationships of employees, that is, use professional ethics to restrict the behavior of professional internal personnel, and promote the unity and cooperation of professional internal personnel. For example, the code of professional ethics requires employees in all walks of life to unite, help each other, love their posts, be dedicated, and work together to serve their profession and profession. On the other hand, professional ethics can regulate the relationship between practitioners and clients. For example, professional ethics stipulates how workers who manufacture products are responsible to users; how marketers are responsible to customers; how doctors are responsible to patients; how teachers are responsible to students; and so on.

2. Help to maintain and improve the credibility of the industry.

The reputation of an industry and an enterprise, that is, their image, credit, and reputation, refers to the trust of the enterprise and its products and services in the public. The improvement of an enterprise's reputation depends mainly on the quality of its products and services, and its employees A high level of professional ethics is an effective guarantee for product quality and service quality. If the professional ethics of the employees is not high, it will be difficult to produce quality products and provide quality services.

3. Promote the development of this industry.

The development of industries and enterprises depends on high economic benefits, and high economic benefits stem from high employee quality. The quality of employees mainly includes three aspects: knowledge, ability and sense of responsibility, of which responsibility is the most important. It is necessary for employees with a high level of professional ethics to have a sense of responsibility. Therefore, professional ethics can promote the development of the industry.

4. Help to improve the moral level of the whole society.

Professional ethics is the main content of the entire society. On the one hand, professional ethics involves how each practitioner treats occupation and work, and it is also a manifestation of the life attitude and values of an employee; it is a mature stage of a person's moral consciousness and moral behavior. Stability and continuity. On the other hand, professional ethics is also the behavior performance of a professional collective, or even all employees in an industry. If each industry and each professional collective has excellent morals, it will definitely play an important role in improving the moral level of the entire society.

1. Professionalism. The content of professional ethics is closely connected with professional practice activities, reflecting the ethical requirements of specific professional activities on the behavior of employees. Every professional ethics can only regulate the profession's employees

Birth and development

Professional ethics arises with the development of social division of labor and the emergence of relatively fixed professional groups. People's professional life practice is the basis of professional ethics. At the end of the primitive society, due to the development of production and exchange, occupational divisions of labor such as agriculture, handicraft industry, and animal husbandry appeared, and professional ethics began to sprout. After entering the class society, occupations such as business, politics, military, education, and medical care also appeared. Based on the economic relations of a certain society, these specific occupations not only require people to have specific knowledge and skills, but also require people to have specific moral concepts, emotions and qualities. In order to maintain professional interests and credibility, and to meet the needs of society, various professional groups have gradually formed professional ethics in professional practice in accordance with the basic requirements of general social ethics. In ancient literature, there are long records of professional ethics. For example, in the ancient Chinese military book "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in the 6th century BC, there were records of "Generals, Wisdom, Faith, Benevolence, Bravery, and Strictness". The five virtues of wisdom, faith, benevolence, bravery and strictness were called the virtues of the ancient Chinese soldiers. The six standards of feudal officials' moral cultivation proposed by Shang Shushu of the Ming dynasty in the Qing Dynasty were called "the six precepts of self-reflection among the people", and their contents include "industrial care, prudent punishment law, absolute bribery, elitist, strict collection, and frugality." . Doctors in ancient China formed an excellent tradition of medical ethics in long-term medical practice. "A small illness cannot be a big one, an easy task cannot be a big one, the rich and the poor have the same heart, and the expensive and the low make the medicine the same." The "Hippocrates Oath" in ancient Greece in the 5th century BC is the earliest medical professional ethics document in the West. The ethics of a certain society are determined and restricted by the division of labor and economic system in that society. In feudal society, the self-sufficient natural economy and the feudal hierarchy not only restricted the communication between occupations, but also hindered the development of professional ethics. It only contains professional ethics in the rules and regulations of certain industrial and commercial guilds, as well as in the words and deeds of famous people engaged in the medical, educational, political, military and other industries. In this society's industry, there have also been people with superb skills and noble morality. Their professional ethical behavior and quality have been praised by the masses, and they have passed on from generation to generation, gradually forming a good tradition of professional ethics. The development of the capitalist commodity economy has promoted the expansion of social division of labor, and occupations and industries have become more and more complex. In order to enhance their competitiveness and increase their profits, various professional groups have promoted professional ethics in order to improve their professional credibility. In many countries and regions, professional associations have also been established to formulate association charters, which stipulate professional purposes and professional ethics. Thereby promoting the popularization and development of professional ethics. In a capitalist society, not only the existing morals, official ethics, medical ethics, and teacher ethics have been further enriched and improved, but many ethics not found in previous societies have appeared, such as corporate ethics, business ethics, lawyer ethics, and scientific ethics. , Editorial ethics, writer ethics, painter ethics, sports ethics, and more. However, due to the bourgeois egoism and the idea of money supremacy, the role of professional ethics has been greatly limited in capitalist society. Because of the nature of capitalist society, the hypocrisy of some professional ethics is promoted when needed, trampled on when not needed, and often make superficial articles and brag about themselves.

Socialist professional ethics was adapted to the needs of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization, and developed under the guidance of communist moral principles and critically inherited the fine traditions of professional ethics in history. Because there is no distinction between high and low in all socialist professions, there is no fundamental conflict of interest between employees in the profession, between different professions, and between professional groups and society. Therefore, people in different professions can form common requirements. And moral ideals, establish a sense of responsibility and honor to love their job. Professional conventions formulated by all walks of life in China, such as the "service conventions" of business and other service industries, the "servicemen's oath" of the People's Liberation Army, the "scientific ethics standards" of science and technology workers, and some provisions in the "employees regulations" of factories and enterprises , All belong to the content of socialist professional ethics, they have played a huge role in professional life.

Professional Ethics and General Social Ethics

The professional ethics of any society is always affected and restricted by the general social ethics that the society occupies. They are in a sense the relationship between commonality and individuality. Professional ethics in capitalist society, especially those that are directly manipulated and participated by the bourgeoisie, are most directly and severely affected and restricted by the moral principles of bourgeois self-interest. They are the embodiment and specific supplement of the general moral principles of the bourgeoisie. . Socialist professional ethics is guided by the principles of communism ethics, and it is the concrete embodiment and supplement of communism ethics and norms in all walks of life. Compared with general social ethics, professional ethics has the following characteristics: Professional ethics is generated and developed in a specific professional environment formed in history. It often forms professional traditions and stable professional psychology and habits that are transmitted from generation to generation. Therefore, it has strong stability and continuity; Professional ethics reflects specific professional relationships and has the business characteristics of specific occupations, so its scope of action is limited to specific professional activities and only for people engaged in specific occupations Binding; Professional ethics are usually manifested in the form of rules and regulations, work rules, service conventions, labor regulations, behavior instructions, etc. In a class society, general social morality is always morality of a certain class. As a special form of ideology, professional ethics always reflects the economic relations of a certain society, and reflects the requirements and desires of a certain class, serving the interests of a certain class. This is because occupations in a class society are ultimately associated with the practice of a certain class and are constrained by the moral principles of the class. People of different classes will inevitably bring their own viewpoints and emotions into their professional lives, forming different professional views and professional ethics. The exploiting class always regards some occupations as "noble" and others as "humble". The professional ethics of the so-called noble occupations often directly reflect the interests of the exploiting classes and the spirit of the moral principles of the exploiting classes, while the professional ethics of the so-called humble occupations engaged by the working people often have the requirements of resisting the exploiting classes and the morals of the exploiting classes The principles are opposite. However, because different professions have different distances and sparseness with the ruling class, different occupational ethics are affected to varying degrees by the ruling class. However, even the professional ethics of occupations not directly affiliated with the ruling class, such as medical care, sports, and scientific research, cannot be rid of the constraints and influences of the socioeconomic, political system, and ethical principles of the ruling class because of the professional activities of their employees. So it also has a certain class character.