PHIL 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fiduciary, Entrust
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Professionals play key roles in many business organizations, and play important roles in all our lives. We trust engineers to build safe bridges, accountants to carry out diligent audits of our financial institutions, lawyers to defend us competently in court, and physicians to diagnose and treat our illnesses. The trust which we are forced to place in professionals gives them enormous power; with that power comes awesome responsibility. The first part is on the nature and role of professional standards. The second is on the difficult issue of the role of professionals within large business organizations. you will be reading 3 articles from the textbook and two articles that are included in your custom course materials. There will be a number of questions to test your understanding of the materials. You will have an opportunity to take part in 2 discussion forums based on your reading. In this section of the module, we will investigate the very foundations of professional ethics.
