...Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice Prepared by the Committee on Professional Ethics Approved by the Board of Directors, August 7, 1999 Executive Summary This document contains two parts: I. Preamble and II. Ethical Guidelines. The Preamble addresses A. Purpose of the Guidelines, B. Statistics and Society, and C. Shared Values. The purpose of the document is to encourage ethical and effective statistical work in morally conducive working environments. It is also intended to assist students in learning to perform statistical work responsibly. Statistics plays a vital role in many aspects of science, the economy, governance, and even entertainment. It is important that all statistical practitioners recognize their potential impact on the broader society and the attendant ethical obligations to perform their work responsibly. Furthermore, practitioners are encouraged to exercise "good professional citizenship" in order to improve the public climate for, understanding of, and respect for the use of statistics throughout its range of applications. The Ethical Guidelines address eight general topic areas and specify important ethical considerations under each topic. A. Professionalism points out the need for competence, judgment, diligence, self-respect, and worthiness of the respect of other people. B. Responsibilities to Funders, Clients, and Employers discusses the practitioner's responsibility for assuring that statistical work is suitable to the needs...
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...Ethics can be defined as a set of principles of right conduct, or a theory or system of moral values. High ethical values are very important to have as individuals, and even more important to have within a corporation. Yet ethics do not always seem to get the focus that they deserve. All one has to do is turn their attention to high-profile scandals [that] cast a shadow, reminding us about the consequences of unethical behavior and shady business practices to realize that high moral ethics are not getting the attention that it deserves. When most people think of ethics (or morals), they think of rules for distinguishing between right and wrong, such as the Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"), a code of professional conduct like the Hippocratic Oath ("First of all, do no harm"), a religious creed like the Ten Commandments ("Thou Shalt not kill..."), or a wise aphorisms like the sayings of Confucius. This is the most common way of defining "ethics": norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Most people learn ethical norms at home, at school, in church, or in other social settings. Although most people acquire their sense of right and wrong during childhood, moral development occurs throughout life and human beings pass through different stages of growth as they mature. Ethical norms are so ubiquitous that one might be tempted to regard them as simple commonsense. On the other hand, if morality were nothing...
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...Block 1 1 Introduction to the Professional Ethics Training Responsible Conduct of Research (PET-RCR) The University of Oklahoma Block 1 2 Professional Ethics Training – Responsible Conduct of Research Thank you for signing up for the Professional Ethics Training – Responsible Conduct of Research (PET-RCR) seminar. Certification: All training participants are expected to attend and actively participate on both days of training. A certificate of completion will be issued to trainees who complete the two-day training. Purpose: Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training is part of an effort by the University of Oklahoma to provide graduate students with superior educational opportunities for professional growth. This training has been developed to increase your awareness of ethical issues, to convey common problems in ethical decision-making, and to provide strategies for managing ethical dilemmas that may occur while conducting research. At the end of this training, you will have acquired tools that will help you in conducting research and managing ethical dilemmas. Contents of this Packet: This training packet contains materials that will introduce you to ethical decision-making in research and will be used throughout the training. Please bring your completed packet with all of the enclosed materials to each training session. This packet contains a number of items including: 1) Training Agenda & Packet Instructions 2) Ethical Guidelines for the Conduct of Research...
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...Professional Regulation & Criminal Liability Paper Laura J White HCS/430 August 13, 2015 Jeanette Fetter Professional regulation is something very important in healthcare. Patients entrust medical professionals to be responsible for their well being and to treat then to keep them healthy for prolonged life. In order to make sure that professionals uphold the standards and obligations they are supposed they are regulated constantly to make sure that they are conducting themselves appropriately. Amongst the many health professionals a Pharmacist has one of the most important jobs in the healthcare industry. They hold the very huge responsibility of compounding and dispensing medication to patients. Pharmacist can be placed anywhere from hospitals to small pharmacies located in neighborhoods. Their jobs require huge responsibility and ability to uphold many protocols and it is very important on what patients take. What made me think of a Pharmacist first is because New York state has a raging issue with people addicted to narcotics. When the prescription abuse is traced back they often find that someone had a friend who was able to get the drug from a Pharmacist. This would be an example of professional misconduct for a Pharmacist. They often fall victim to this taking extra money on the side to dispense narcotic drugs to people who haven’t been prescribed them. This happens often especially since in the state of New York some many feel that as a healthcare...
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...Subject: Policy No: Version: Effective Date: Contact: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy PP-ACD-DB-10.4 V3 25 July 2012 Immediately Chair, Deans’ Committee This document is issued and controlled by the Policy and Document Control Officer. Approval for changes may only be given by the President or in his/her absence, an authorised member of Senior Administration. This is a controlled electronic document subject to update and must not be copied. 1.0 Purpose of Policy The purpose of this policy is to set out the University’s commitment to Academic Integrity, with particular reference to: the importance of acknowledgement practice; responding to plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct in a consistent and equitable manner; and the roles and responsibilities of staff and students in upholding the values of Academic Integrity. 2.0 Definitions Word Academic Integrity Definition (with examples if required) Demonstrating the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility in all academic endeavours, including preparing and presenting work for assessment as part of coursework or research. The practice of acknowledging the ideas, designs, words or works of other people in one’s own work. An academic task which a student is required to complete to provide a basis for an official record of achievement or certification of competence in a subject, as stipulated in the Subject Outline. Using another person’s ideas, designs, words or works...
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...of 1980 and approved by the Council in its meeting held on 24.3.1983 Function, Procedures and Disciplinary Jurisdiction JURISDICTION:The Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council was duly Constituted under the Medical and Dental Council Act No XVI of 1980, on 9, 1980 is empowered to look after: (a) Public interest-by Maintaining Proper Medical/Dental Standards. (b) Medical/Dental Education in the country. (c) Maintain a register of qualified Medical/ Dental Practitioners qualifying from duly recognized institutions or recognized dentists registered as per section 15 (3) of the act. (d) Take such disciplinary actions which may be required for criminal convictions of serious professional misconduct of a Medical/Dental practitioner. The Council is not an Association or a Union for protecting professional interests. This booklet will only deal with code of Medical Ethics which the Council expects the registered Medical/ Dental practitioners who are duly registered by the Council to follow (or obey, these are general guide lines only and the Disciplinary Committee reserves the right of judging each individual case on merits. The following general advice given by professor Saundby to Medical/ Dental practitioners will be found exceedingly valuable: ''The duty that a medical/ dental man owes to the profession of which he is a member is one of the highest he is called upon to fulfill, as his obligations to his country can alone be allowed to have greater claims upon him. He should...
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...Courtroom Participants’ Professional Standards In order for the legal system of the United States to work as intended by the constitution, it is vital for all participants of the legal system to their jobs in accordance with the law. From the bottom up, the police officers making arrests should not violate the rights of an individual or take law into their own hands. Any misconduct by the police will cause the public to loose trust in them. Then the prosecutors and defense attorneys must work in accordance with the law and make sure a defendant is given all the rights under the law and should not do anything to violate the rights of the individual. At the judicial level, the judges must keep personal feeling out of the courts and avoid any misconduct that might cause a reversal of the charges in appeal or cause the public to question and doubt the justice system. * * A man named Michael Wayne Hash was the victim of a prosecutorial misconduct case back in 2001. Michael was convicted of murdering a 74 year old grandmother. Michael was convicted of capital murder after prosecutors made deals with three other men that were tried and convicted of the same case. In this case, the prosecutors withheld or concealed evidence that could have freed Michael * of the charges against him. Prosecutors did not disclose to the defense council that the accusers against him failed polygraph exams and had made deals to testify against him. There was no DNA match to Michael from...
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...Boundary Setting Skills: Essential for a Successful Social Worker Latanya Griffin Kaplan University CM107-45 Professor Stoff April 14, 2014 Many professionals enter into the field of social work to help others grow and improve their life circumstance. Those who are preparing for a career as a social worker need to possess the ability and skill of professional boundary setting. It.is important that a social worker maintain the capacity to set boundaries and accept the limits of what can be accomplished in a certain amount of time. Establishing boundaries and setting milestones and goals can help set expectable exceptions to the many challenges a social worker may face. It is crucial that social workers understand the limits of their knowledge and not work beyond them. Having a cutoff point not only protect the safety of the client, it also protect the social worker integrity and ethical principles. Social workers should work for the good of the patient to the best of their ability and avoid doing anything to abuse the patient physically, emotionally or ethically. There have been many complaints filed against social works resulting in imposed fines, penalties, licensure sanctions, suspension, or revocation. In some instances, workers could be imprisoned for inappropriate abuse of a client. (Dietz & Thompson, 2004) offered the concern about the effects of power differential between client and social worker. Boundary setting ensures that the use of a social...
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...research is trust. Professionals, organizations, and the public must be able to trust that research is being reported honestly, accurately, and free from bias. Questionable research misconduct can include poor data management, the failure to share data, questionable data selection methods, inadequate supervision of those conducting the research, and fiscal mismanagement ("Research Misconduct", 2012). Recently a large case of research fraud was brought against Dr. Kipak K. Das by the University of Connecticut. The allegations of research fraud involve 26 articles published in 11 different journals claiming the health benefits of drinking red wine. According to the article, “University Suspects Fraud by a Researcher Who Studied Red Wine”, the university received anonymous allegations in January 2009 about irregularities in Dr. Das’ research. An investigation into Das’ research articles revealed 145 instances of fabrication and falsification of data (Wade, 2012). Allegations received by the university reference lab members manipulating figures, often at the request of Dr. Das, and digitally manipulating the experiments (western-blot images) done in the studies. The fabrication and falsification of the research data will have a negative impact on Dr. Das’ reputation as a respectable doctor, could tarnish the name of the University of Connecticut, could harm those that rely upon this research data, and could also discredit the federal government in how they distribute grant...
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...Ethics and Professional Responsibility Study Unit By Michael Wilson, Esq. Reviewed By Brian Bastyr, Esq. About the Author Michael Wilson is a freelance writer and college instructor who has had wide legal and educational experience. He graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Kentucky in 1976 and three years later received his law degree from the same school. He has been a partner in a law firm, a solo practitioner, and has done work in General and Family Mediation. He has also been a fulltime instructor in Paralegal Studies at Sullivan College, Lexington, KY, where he has taught such classes as Legal Research, Advanced Legal Writing and Appellate Practice, and Wills and Estates. He was given the “Teacher of the Year” award in 1997. Mr. Wilson has also had a number of papers published on legal topics in both scholarly and popular journals. About the Reviewer Brian Bastyr is a senior attorney editor for West Group, a legal publishing company. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law. He is currently a member of the Illinois bar, and has published a number of articles in legal journals. All terms mentioned in this text that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalized. Use of a term in this text should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service...
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...supervision In terms of supervision, discipline must be referred to as a set of instructions given to the subordinate employee. It makes the subordinates learn all the instructions, which are required in order to provide successful work performance. The inability to follow such instructions results in certain “penalties” for the individual. Each organization has its own disciplinary code aimed to maintain the order within the organization. Discipline may be analyzed as the attempt to model the conduct of the subordinates in accordance with the peculiarity of a given organization. It actually shapes the behavior which is considered to be acceptable by the supervisors. Improper professional conduct may result in various negative consequences especially when it deals with police supervision as misconduct may lead even to death. Discipline in terms of effective police supervision is achieved through coaching, mentoring and counseling of subordinates and is controlled through a set of penalties. The major task of the supervisory discipline is to form the subordinate’s self-discipline and therefore secure the work process (Ianonne, 2000). All the disciplinary procedures used to reinforce the importance of the disciplinary code of the given organization deal with making the individual committed to a certain type of actions during his work hours. Discipline also plays an essential role in the formation of the subordinates’ motivation. It results in the type of individual behavior especially...
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...Codes of Conduct 1. Comparison of Codes of Conduct: SAICA, CLASA and SASOL |1.1 Purpose of the Codes: | |All three above-mentioned Codes do have a clear purpose. | |SAICA: |CLASA: |SASOL: | |Professional code of conduct for accountants |Professional code of conduct for “corporate |Organisational code of conduct to employees | |and auditors |lawyers” |of the organisation | |SAICA: This code deals with professional attitudes and behaviour. A profession is distinguished by the following characteristics i.e: | |Mastering a particular intellectual skill | |Acceptance of duties to the society as a whole as well as to client and employer | |An objective outlook | |Rendering personal services to a high standard of conduct and performance | | ...
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...Due to the development of information and communication technology (ICT), plagiarism becomes a much more serious problem in the academic community as plagiarism are easily committed with the help of ICT. In this report, my focus will be on the types of Academic Plagiarism, Academic Policy used and how plagiarism will affect the students and organization. “What is plagiarism?” [1] In my opinion, I believed that plagiarism is the act of passing someone else's work as your own without giving credit to the original. It can also be something like having “A quotation of a sentence or two, without quotation marks and without a citation to the original author”. [2] According to the dictionary.com, plagiarism is defined as “An act or instance of...
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...opportunity to draw the best from the junior person by acting as an adviser, teacher, role model, motivator, and supportive advocate. Mentoring is an ideal way to pass ethical and professional values to others in the field. Institutions that pursue long-term development and growth must foster an encouraging, jointly supportive environment. A key element in that cultivation process is creating a mutually respectful relationship between mentor and trainee. Learning Objectives After reading this module, you should be able to: * Clarify the roles and responsibilities of mentors and those that they mentor. * Provide guidance to assist all who participate in research to avoid problems and to optimize the mentoring experience. * Describe barriers to mentoring, particularly for women and minority researchers, and potential solutions to these barriers. * Describe the importance of mentoring and the way in which mentoring occurs. ------------------------------------------------- Foundation Mentoring is one of the primary means for one generation of researchers to impart their knowledge to the next generations. More than textbooks and formal classes, the relatively informal dimensions of research, including the relationship between mentor and trainee, prepare the next generation of professionals. In her 1977 speech at the Nobel Banquet, prizewinner Rosalyn Yalow addressed the students of Stockholm, identifying them as "the carriers of our hopes for the survival of the...
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...onus of proof of an implied retainer is on the party alleging the existence of a retainer . In this case, there clearly is no express retainer, and therefore DEF needs to prove that there is an implied professional relationship by showing that the conversation between Virginia and Teddy was a legal advice. Inferences can only be made objectively, and should not be made from mere beliefs . What Virginia provided, in the conversation between her and Teddy, are deemed to be her opinion rather than a proper...
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