Professional codes: Why, how, and with what impact?

Frankel, Mark S.

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“…[6] Types, functions and remit of codes vary widely. Frankel [7] describes several functions that codes may have: as an enabling document, a source of public evaluation, a deterrent to unethical behaviour or a support system with the aim to socialize the profession, to enhance public trust, or to adjudicate. Codes usually fulfil several of these functions simultaneously.…”

Section: Codes Of Conductmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Implementing the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice—A Case Study

2009

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Widespread enthusiasm for establishing scientific codes of conduct notwithstanding, the utility of such codes in influencing scientific practice is not self-evident. It largely depends on the implementation phase following their establishment-a phase which often receives little attention. The aim of this paper is to provide recommendations for guiding effective implementation through an assessment of one particular code of conduct in one particular institute. Based on a series of interviews held with researchers at the Department of Biotechnology of Delft University of Technology, this paper evaluates how the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice is received by those it is supposed to govern. While respondents agreed that discussion of the guiding principles of scientific conduct is called for, they did not consider the code as such to be a useful instrument. As a tool for the individual scientific practitioner, the code leaves a number of important questions unanswered in relation to visibility, enforcement, integration with daily practice and the distribution of responsibility. Recommendations are provided on the basis of these questions. There is more at stake than merely holding scientific practitioners to a proper exercise of their duties; implementation of scientific society

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Section: Codes Of Conductmentioning

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“…There are several ways to distinguish types of codes [3,7,8]. Rappert's classification scheme will be used here.…”

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“…There are three types of codes of ethics: aspirational (inspirational), regulatory (prescriptive), and educational (Farrell & Cobbin, 2000, Frankel, 1989and Froehlich, 1997. Inspirational codes are intended to empower individuals to be ethical; they present an ideal that individuals should attempt to reach.…”

Section: Codes Of Ethicsmentioning

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A global perspective on library association codes of ethics

Shachaf

2005

Library & Information Science Research

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This study of 28 countries involves comparative content analysis of the English versions of codes of ethics proposed by professional associations. It yielded an empirically grounded typology of principles arranged in twenty categories. The most frequently identified principles were professional development, integrity, confidentiality or privacy, and free and equal access to information. While confidentiality and privacy, and equal access to information, appear in all existing typologies of library and information science ethics, other principles, such as copyright and intellectual property, democracy, and responsibility toward society, which appear in almost all other typologies, were evident in fewer than half of the codes. This empirical study provides a global perspective on library association code of ethics.

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“…30 They also serve as a measuring stick against which members of a profession may judge the relative impropriety of certain demands. 31 ''Through its ethical code, a profession's commitment to the social welfare becomes a matter of public record, thereby insuring for itself the continued confidence of the community.'' 32 As discussed previously, both of the major professional organizations to which college and university fund raisers belong have explicitly stated codes of ethics for their members.…”

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Toward Professionalization: Fund Raising Norms and Their Implications for Practice

Caboni

2003

Int J Educ Adv

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This article outlines the core traits of professions and discusses the extent to which fund raising possesses these traits. Three inviolable and six admonitory normative patterns of fund-raising behavior are described and their implications for the practice of fund raising are discussed. This article reexamines the fund-raising profession in comparison with the markers of true professions as suggested in the sociological literature. First, the core traits of professions and their relationship to fund raising is examined. Second, professional self-regulation is discussed. Third, the informal norms that fund raisers use to self-regulate are described. Finally, the importance of these norms to the profession and their use for practitioners is outlined.

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Professional codes: Why, how, and with what impact?

Cited by 326 publications

References 3 publications

Implementing the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice—A Case Study

Implementing the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice—A Case Study

A global perspective on library association codes of ethics

Toward Professionalization: Fund Raising Norms and Their Implications for Practice

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