Background: Evolution of the audit profession and its ability to gain public trust will depend on compliance with code of professional ethics. Fraudulent activities indicate the weakness of the ruling ethical values in work and training environment. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence, ethical climates and ethical values of companie...

BACKGROUND International codes of ethics play an important role in guiding professional practice in developing countries. In the occupational health setting, codes developed by international agencies have substantial import on protecting working populations from harm. This is particularly so under globalisation which has transformed processes of production in fundamental ways across the globe. ...

The students of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, in recognition of the fact that the practice of medicine requires not only scientific knowledge and a mastery of technology but also a commitment to the highest ethical, professional and moral standards, have established the Code of Honorable and Professional Conduct as an expression of this commitment. As future phys...

BACKGROUND In our time there is growing interest in developing a systematic approach to oncologic patients and end-of-life care. An important goal within this domain is to identify the values and ethical norms that guide physicians' decisions and their recourse to technological aids to preserve life. Though crucial, this objective is not easy to achieve. The purpose of this study is to evaluate...

to be useful in practice (Felkenes, 1980). When ethical decision-making and the organization have been studied empirically, researchers found that those who rely on organizational rules deliberate somewhat differently on ethical issues than do those practitioners who use ethical principles to guide their decision-making (Kugelman-Jaffee, 1990). Thus, the challenge for hospital based social wo...

T his chapter sets out to define what is meant by the term ‘ethics’, briefly introduces the reader to current frameworks for ethical thinking, summarises the key ethical principles for good medical practice, and presents the codes of ethics that guide the medical profession. The chapter is intended to provide a foundation for the ethical dimensions of issues addressed in later chapters. Modern ...

background: ethical sensitivity is considered as a component of professional competency of nurses. its effects on improvement of nurses’ ethical performance and the therapeutic relationship between nurses and patients have been reported. however, very limited studies have evaluated ethical sensitivity. since no previous iranian research has been conducted in this regard, the present study aimed...

PREAMBLE It is in the nature of medical practice that it is always likely to yield ethical problems because of the role that health, illness and injury play in the lives of patients. Sports physicians can fi nd themselves in particularly diffi cult (though not unique) contexts because of the role of the body in athletic performance, especially at elite and professional levels. Contrary to recen...