ACCT3321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ethical Decision, Business Ethics, Professional Code Of Quebec
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Provide basis for con ict resolution with clients. Disciplinary purposes needed to impose and enforce punitive measures, gives a basis for such actions. For survival (survival depends on process of reorientation and rede ning its roles to re ect current community values) Enhance public acceptability, but only if ethical values align with community values. Duty to do good and avoid doing harm to others. Duty of care to protect weak and vulnerable. Duty of advocacy, defending the rights of the weak and vulnerable. Duty to treat people as ends never simply as means to an end. Duty to respect the rights, autonomy and dignity of other people. Duty of truthfulness, honesty and sincerity (honour is respect, deceit is dishonourable) Decide model for ethical decision making: de ne the problem > key facts of case and ethical issues, ethical review > ethical principles, consider the options > reasonable and practical choices available.
