Human Value and Professiona

Ethics -II
Presentation By:-

Manish Sharma (40420903616)

Nidhi Choudhary (03420903616)
Pradeep Kr. Meena ( 04030903616)
Shubham Kr. Katara (05620903616 )
Table of Content
1. Confidentiality
Conflicts of Interests
Collegiality and Loyalty
Occupational Crimes
Responsibility
Professional Rights
1 Confidentiality
➔ Confidentiality is the protection of
personal information.
Confidentiality means keeping a
client’s information between you
and the client, and not telling
others including co-workers,
friends, family, etc
Types of information considered confidential can include:

● name, date of birth, age, sex and address

● current contact details of family, guardian etc
● bank details
● medical history or records Note:
● personal care issues
● service records and file progress notes Other information relating to
ethnic or racial origin,
● individual personal plans
political opinions, religious
● assessments or reports
or philosophical beliefs,
● guardianship orders health or sexual lifestyle
● incoming or outgoing personal correspondence. should also be considered
confidential
Consequences of Breach

● · Termination: The first and the most obvious consequence is termination. No employer will be
willing to retain employees who maliciously or carelessly lose confidential information, they're no
longer assets for the business. An employer is usually within his legal rights to terminate the
employment, even if there is no confidentiality clause signed up. Breach of confidentiality is
considered to be breach of employment agreement.
● Lawsuit: The employer can even file a lawsuit and if successful, the employee will be required to
pay lawsuit damages. For instance, if some secret is revealed to the competitor and the employer is
able to prove the loss of business or image, the employee has to pay the same. Even if the
employer is not able to prove the quantitative damage, he is entitled to punitive damage
● Criminal Charges: In extreme information, a breach of confidentiality can even lead to criminal
charges against the employee. It may happen if the employee is involved in theft of proprietary data
or Intellectual Property.
● Reputation: In a specialized industry where businesses are well-aware about the other businesses
such acts of breach can permanently tarnish an employee's reputation. This is a long-term
consequence wherein an employee's future job aspects maybe doomed.
2. Conflict of Interests

A conflict of interest (COI) is a

situation in which a person or
organization is involved in multiple
interests, financial or otherwise, and
serving one interest could involve
working against another. Typically, this
relates to situations in which the
personal interest of an individual or
organization might adversely affect a
duty owed to make decisions for the
benefit of a third party.
 The following are the most common forms of
conflicts of interests:
➔ Self-dealing in which an official who controls an organization causes it to
enter into a transaction with the official, or with another organization that
benefits the official only. The official is on both sides of the "deal."

Note:-
➔ Outside employment, in which the interests of one job conflict with
Other improper acts that are
another sometimes classified as
conflicts of interests may
have better classification.For
➔ Pump and dump, in which a stock broker who owns a security artificially example, accepting bribes
can be classified as
inflates the price by "upgrading" it or spreading rumors, sells the security corruption, use of
government or corporate
and adds short position, then "downgrades" the security or spreads property or assets for
negative rumours to push the price down. personal use is fraud.
➔ Nepotism, in which a spouse, child, or other close relative is employed (or
applies for employment) by an individual, or where goods or services are
purchased from a relative or from a firm controlled by a relative. To avoid
nepotism in hiring, many employment applications ask if the applicant is Note:- COI is sometimes
related to a current employee of the company. This allows recusal if the termed competition of
interest rather than
employed relative has a role in the hiring process. If this is the case, the "conflict", emphasizing a
relative could then recuse from any hiring decisions. connotation of natural
competition between valid
interests—rather than the
classical definition of
conflict, which would
➔ Gifts from friends who also do business with the person receiving the gifts include by definition
including a victim and unfair
or from individuals or corporations who do business with the organization aggression. Nevertheless,
in which the gift recipient is employed. Such gifts may include non- this denotation of conflict of
interest is not generally
tangible things of value such as transportation and lodging. seen.
 3. Collegiality and Loyalty
1. Collegiality represents a reciprocal relationship among colleagues with a commitment to sustaining
a positive and productive environment as critical for the progress and success of the university
community.
2. Concept of collegiality is referred for Colleagues are those explicitly united in a common purpose
and respecting each other's abilities to work toward that purpose.
3. Loyalty is the quality of being faithful in your support of someone or something

Elements of collegiality and loyalty:-

4. Respect to the ideas and work of others this results in support and cooperation with one’s
colleagues.
5. Commitment to moral principles such as goals,actions,goals of the organization and values of the
profession.
 4. OCCUPATIONAL CRIME
1. Occupational crime is crime that is committed through in the form of legal occupation.
2. Occupational crime is referred as thefts of company property, vandalism, the misuse of
information and many other activities

Some common types of occupational crime may include:

1.)Money laundering.
2.)Embezzlement.
3.)Tax fraud and various employment tax evasion violations.
4.)Racketeering.
5.)Stocks and securities violations.
6.)Altering records (“cooking the books”)
7.)Corruption of government officials.
5. Responsibility

The state or fact of being

responsible, answerable,
or accountable for
something within one's
power, control, or
management.
TYPES OF RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Collective
2. Moral
3. Social
4. Personal
—COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY individuals who are part of such
organisation,groups or societies to be responsible for other people's
actions and occurrences by tolerating, ignoring, or harboring them,
without actively engaging.
—MORAL RESPONSIBILITY the status of morally deserving praise,
blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission performed or
neglected in accordance with one's moral obligations. Deciding what
(if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a principal concern of
ethics.
—SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
1.) Duty every individual has to perform so as to maintain a balance
between the economy and the ecosystems.
2.) An ethical framework and suggests that an entity, be it an
organization or individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of
society at large.
—PERSONAL RESPOSIBILITY the idea that human beings choose,
instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions. A corollary idea is that
because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable
or legally liable.
 6. Professional Rights
Employees are an assets to the company and any ethical organization would like its employees to be
happy and prosperous by providing them a safe and happy working environment, steady work,
reasonable modifications to work time, and a healthy work-life balance

➔ An employee is, at the very least, entitled to the following rights at his work place.
➔ No discrimination at work, especially on the basis of gender, nationality , religion, medical condition.
➔ Protection of job for people with disability and medical condition
➔ Freedom to discuss the terms and conditions of employment with other employees and negotiating
wages to suit lifestyle as per changing times
➔ Right to ask for safe working conditions and reservation to answering questions on age , religion,
nationality, and medical condition
➔ Right to form or participate a union that aims to improve the wages, lifestyle, working environment ,
and emphasizes on employee rights at the workplaces
Thank you