This essay focuses on professional ethics and responsibilities. Ethical principles may differ depending on the profession; for example,

professional ethics and responsibilities.

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Ethical principles underpin all professional codes of conduct. Ethical principles may differ depending on the profession; for example that relate to medical practitioners will differ from those that relate to lawyers or real estate agents.

However, there are some universal ethical principles that apply across all professions, including:

• honesty
• trustworthiness
• loyalty
• respect for others
• adherence to the law
• doing good and avoiding harm to others
• accountability.

Codes of conduct

Professional codes of conduct draw on theseprinciples as the basis for prescribing required standards of behaviour for members of a profession. They also seek to set out the expectations that the profession and society have of its members.

Use information from reliable sources. (Note: Websites such as Wikipedia are not acceptable academic sources.) You may use the slide notes function to explain slide contents as necessary. In your presentation, address the following topics: and
professional ethics and responsibilities of intermediaries;
professional ethics, responsibilities, and loyalty of managers; and
professional ethics and responsibilities of employees to the community.
In addition to the information on professional ethics and responsibilities, provide at least one example of each topic above. Cite your sources, and create a reference slide using proper APA formatting. and . The title and reference slides are not included in the slide count.

The primary value of a professional code of conduct is not as a checklist for disciplining non-conforming members, although breaches of a code of conduct usually do carry a professional disciplinary consequence.

Rather, its primary value is to act as a prompt sheet for the promotion of ethical decision-making by members of that profession.