Ethics chapter 2

Question 1

Codes of conduct

Answer 1

A code in which organizations lay down guidelines for responsible
behavior of their members.

Question 2

Professional code

Answer 2

CoC that is formulated by a professional organization.

Question 3

Corporate code

Answer 3

CoC that is formulated by a company.

Question 4

Aspirational code

Answer 4

A CoC that expresses the moral values of a profession or company

Question 5

Advisory codes

Answer 5

A CoC that has the objective to help individual professionals or employees to exercise moral judgements in concrete situations.

Question 6

Disciplinary code

Answer 6

A CoC that has the objective to achieve that the behavior of all professionals or employees meets certain values and norms.

Question 7

Integrity

Answer 7

Living by one’s own (moral) values, norms and commitments.

Question 8

Honesty

Answer 8

Telling what one has good reasons to believe to be true and disclosing all relevant information.

Question 9

Conflict of interests

Answer 9

The situation in which one has an interest that, when pursued, can conflict with making one’s professional obligations to an employer or to (other) clients.

Question 10

Uncritical loyalty

Answer 10

Placing the interests of the employers, as the employer defines those interests, above any other considerations.

Question 11

Critical loyalty

Answer 11

Giving due regard to the interest of the employer, in so far as this is possible within the constraints of the employee’s personal and professional ethics.

Question 12

Confidentiality duties

Answer 12

Duties on employees to keep silent certain information.

Question 13

External auditing

Answer 13

Assessing of a company in terms of its code of conduct by an external
organization

Question 14

Global code of conduct

Answer 14

A CoC that applies worldwide.

Question 15

Professional autonomy

Answer 15

The ideal that individual professionals achieve themselves moral conclusions by reasoning clearly and carefully.