How Effective are Codes of Ethics? A Look at Three Newsrooms

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Boeyink
Keyword(s):  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Journalism Ethics ◽  
Ethical Problems

Few changes in journalism ethics have been as dramatic as the proliferation of codes of ethics in newsrooms. Yet little has been done to assess how codes of ethics shape journalists' behavior when they are faced with real ethical problems. This study explores that question by looking at the role that codes have played in real cases in three separate newsrooms.

scholarly journals Ethical problems at work in the opinion of employees of selected banks

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Robert Rogowski
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Internet Forum ◽  
Bank Employees ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

The paper presents ethical problems faced by the employees of selected banks in Poland. The theoretical section of the paper describes the codes of ethics in banking, especially those concerning the moral aspects of working in banking. The empirical part of the paper presents the results of research on the ethos of bank workers. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were carried out using a special Internet forum devoted to the banking sector. The study includes a content analysis of comments posted by the bank employees on the Internet forum.

Public Journalism and Ethics

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Richards
Keyword(s):  
Public Journalism ◽  
Journalism Ethics ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Made In

Although it has been hailed as the salvation of American journalism, public journalism poses many dilemmas. While the most immediate of these arise from its definitional imprecision, some of the most significant are in the area of journalism ethics. Some of the problems emerge from public journalism's disregard of traditional notions of journalistic objectivity, others from the inherent conflict between serving the public and serving the market. At the same time, the public journalism movement has yet to confront the fact that ethical debates in journalism have generally been constructed around the individual, thereby ignoring the reality that most ethical problems originate at the level of ownership and management. While it is too soon to determine just how well public journalism will adapt to Australian conditions, it is clear that it has a long way to go before it justifies the extravagant claims that have been made in its name.

GOTOPS

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Campos ◽  
Luís Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Ethics Program ◽  
The Law

Information Systems Technology (IST) has an increasingly central role in today’s globalised information society. In this regard, it is imperative to recognise the impossibility of a technological life without ethics. As typical components for an ethics program, the authors use Codes of Ethics/Conduct/Practices (CE/CC/CP) as some professions (physicians, lawyers, etc.) have adopted them. The codes are instrumental in developing sound relations with various stakeholders to reduce the number of legal proceedings and contingencies, negotiate conflicts of interest, and ensure the fulfillment of the law. In view of this, the codes should be dynamic and not static documents, used for the advancement in easy reading, understanding, and structure. This will be instrumental for their followers to more easily consult and understand them, and find guidelines for their key ethical problems and concerns. This paper proposes the voluntary GOTOPS code of the techno ethics governance, that is, ethical problems raised by IST.

scholarly journals Žiniasklaidos laisvė? Žurnalistų etikos problemos Estijoje

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Epp Lauk
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Journalism Ethics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Responsibility Model ◽  
Communist Countries

Šiame straipsnyje nagrinėjama pokomunistinių šalių spaudos laisvė, laisvoji rinka ir egzistuojantys žurnalistų etikos kodeksai, kurių nepakanka garbingos ir etiškos žurnalistikos, prižiūrimos savireguliacinių institucijų, plėtrai. Estijos pavyzdys, kaip demokratijos ir laisvos rinkos ekonomikos modelis, atskleidžia, jog vienoje iš “laisviausių” šalių žiniasklaidos elitas, siekdamas savo interesų ir pelno, išplėtojo užgaulingą “savireguliacijos simuliaciją”. Ten, kur valstybės žiniaskaidos politika išlieka itin liberali, o pilietinės ir politinės kultūros neišplėtotos, “socialiai atsakingos” žurnalistikos modelis neveikia.Freedom for the media? Issues of journalism ethics in Estonia*Epp Lauk SummaryThis paper argues that in the post-Communist countries freedom of the press, free market and existence of journalistic Codes of ethics are not sufficient conditions for the development of fair and ethical journalism that is guarded by a self-regulation body. The example of Estonia, a ‘model’ of the transformation to a democratic free-market economy, demonstrates that in one of the ‘freest’ of environments the media elite have developed an abusive ‘simulation of self-regulation’ to protect their self-serving interests and the pursuit of profit. Where State media policy remains extremely liberal and civic and political cultures are underdeveloped, the ‘social responsibility’ model of journalism does not work.Key words: freedom of expression, media ethics, media self-regulation, civil society, Estonia, post-Communist countries

Overview of Psychiatric Ethics V: Utilitarianism and the Ethics of Duty

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 402-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Robertson ◽  
Kirsty Morris ◽  
Garry Walter
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Instrumental Value ◽  
The Core ◽  
Kant's Ethics

Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the ethical theories of utilitarianism and the ethics of duty (Kant's ethics) and to evaluate their value as theoretical bases of psychiatric ethics. Conclusions: Utilitarianism is a well-established moral philosophy and has significant instrumental value in dealing with common ethical problems faced by psychiatrists. Despite its capacity to generate solutions to ethical problems, utilitarianism requires a process of what Rawls described as ‘reflective equilibrium’ to avoid morally repugnant choices, based on utility. The criticisms of utilitarianism, such as the problems of quantifying utility and the responsibility for consequences, are very relevant for psychiatry. Singer's model of utilitarian thinking is particularly problematic for our profession. Kant's ethics provides the pretext for duty bound codes of ethics for psychiatrists, but suffers from problems of flawed claims to the universalizability prescribed by Kant's ‘categorical imperative’. Kant's valorization of reason as the core of the autonomy of persons is a valuable insight in understanding psychiatrists’ ethical obligations to their patients.

scholarly journals Ethics in the Software Development Process: from Codes of Conduct to Ethical Deliberation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Gogoll ◽  
Niina Zuber ◽  
Severin Kacianka ◽  
Timo Greger ◽  
Alexander Pretschner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Software Development Teams ◽  
Software Engineers

AbstractSoftware systems play an ever more important role in our lives and software engineers and their companies find themselves in a position where they are held responsible for ethical issues that may arise. In this paper, we try to disentangle ethical considerations that can be performed at the level of the software engineer from those that belong in the wider domain of business ethics. The handling of ethical problems that fall into the responsibility of the engineer has traditionally been addressed by the publication of Codes of Ethics and Conduct. We argue that these Codes are barely able to provide normative orientation in software development. The main contribution of this paper is, thus, to analyze the normative features of Codes of Ethics in software engineering and to explicate how their value-based approach might prevent their usefulness from a normative perspective. Codes of Conduct cannot replace ethical deliberation because they do not and cannot offer guidance because of their underdetermined nature. This lack of orientation, we argue, triggers reactive behavior such as “cherry-picking,” “risk of indifference,” “ex-post orientation,” and the “desire to rely on gut feeling.” In the light of this, we propose to implement ethical deliberation within software development teams as a way out.

scholarly journals Etyczność w przestrzennych działaniach innowacyjnych administracji publicznej

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 314-330
Author(s):  
Barbara Pytko
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Unethical Behavior ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Entire Country

Changes in the management of the public administration are taking place in a very turbulent manner. The initial solutions for building a quality culture of the public organizations are supported by implementation of systems designed to combat corruption. Code of ethics for public officials and employees is getting better understood and the public officials themselves tend to constitute new ethics rules now. Additionally they have started to organize activities in order to eliminate unethical behavior. These innovative solutions of a spatial character are covering the entire country. This paper presents ethical problems, which cannot be solved by using only law regulations. It also presents an analysis of the implemented innovative measures like standards in public life, declarations on ethic, codes of ethics and ethics audits. These measures also include system solutions complaint with quality requirements.The most innovative solutions in the form of System of Counteracting Corruption Threats (System Przeciwdziałania Zagrożeniom Korupcyjnym), which contains 27 requirements, are well implemented in the public institutions because they have the same structure as the requirements of ISO 9001.

Psychiatric ethics

2012 ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Sidney Bloch ◽  
Stephen Green
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Mental Health Practice ◽  
Ethical Problems

A myriad of ethical problems pervade clinical practice and research in psychiatry. Yet with few exceptions, psychiatric ethics has generally been regarded as an addendum to mainstream bioethics. An assumption has been made that ‘tools’ developed to deal with issues like assisted reproduction or transplant surgery can be used essentially unmodified in psychiatry. These tools certainly help the psychiatrist but the hand-me-down approach has meant that salient features of psychiatric ethics have been prone to misunderstanding. Psychiatric ethics is concerned with the application of moral rules to situations and relationships specific to the field of mental health practice. We will focus on ethical aspects of diagnosis and treatment that challenge psychiatrists, and on codes of ethics. Resolution of ethical dilemmas requires deliberation grounded in a moral theoretical framework that serves clinical decision-making, and we conclude with our preferred theoretical perspective.

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