MORALS AND CODE OF CONDUCT 2
Personal ethics refers to a person’s moral principles that govern his ways of conducting
activities. The sense of wrongs and rights of a person actually constitutes what personal ethics
entails. For educational purposes, academic institutions set ethical standards for academic work
that are expected to be embraced by students and faculty. In all academic work, students shall act
in a manner consistent with the set academics and ethical standards, follow the right chain of
command in reporting their complaints, undertake to academic disciplinary actions, taking and
giving credit where credit is due. Students’ behavior that are contrary to the academic ethics
amounts to academic misconduct. Examples of such misconduct include failure to report spotted
academic misconduct, exams cheating and plagiarism. Misconducts with respect to academic work
warrants academic disciplinary. (STAFF, 2007)
Professional organizations do establish professional codes of ethics, this refers to accepted
personal values, behaviors and business principles aimed at guiding primary stakeholders in
accomplishing organizational goals most effectively. The personal, academic and professional
ethics when mutually developed and well natured within the firm, translates to tremendous growth
of the organizations resilience, growth and development. On the other hand, ethical dilemma refers
to a complex situation that occasions a very tough decision making between two moral imperatives
where either must be an alternative forgone. Using a scenario that I encountered as an emergency
worker. One fateful day I was called to an accident scene. On my arrival, the car that I saw was
my wife’s. Fearing the worst I rushed to see she was trapped in the wreckage with another man.
On seeing me, though drifting in and out of consciousness, she manages to utter the words “I am
sorry”… I did not understand but her from her look, my questions were answered. (Schreiner,
2017)
