describe how professional values and ethics can impact career success (document references and citations)

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Professional values and ethics v career success

Professional values refer to personal values such as honesty trustworthiness , justice and respect among other values which a person upholds while carrying out his or her professional duties . Ethics on the other hand refers to the moral judgments upon which rights and wrongs are distinguished . Values and ethics are used interchangeable in different situations and they are complimentary . Professional values held by a professional help him or her to make ethical

decisions while faced with ethical dilemmas . While career growth and development may not always come along due to professional values and ethics , maintenance of such success is only possible when professional values and ethics are highly exercised and upheld . Job promotion and retention also measures or enhances career success of an individual . Managers as well as organizations look for professional values and ethics during promotion and recruitment functions thus they affect career success especially because they influence promotion decisions (Harris , 1998

Professional values and ethics as mentioned above are not the determinants of career success especially in the short run but they determine the sustainability of the success . Career success can be termed as the long term development of a person 's career which is based on values and ethics . It is possible for people to gain career success through unscrupulous means such as embezzlement of funds or bribery or other unethical behavior (Korman Korman , 1980 . However , such practices are unsustainable in the...