Ethics and Moral Development

In preparing for this discussion, you should first review the Week 2 required resources that focus on ethics and morals. This will help assist you in examining your own development of ethical and moral responsibilities.

Reflect: Take a deeper look at your own life and determine which experiences have inspired ethical and moral reasoning. Were there any huge influences in this process?

Write: For this discussion you will address the following prompts:

Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal, academic, and professional growth.
Provide at least one ethical dilemma you have encountered, and describe how the issue was resolved.
Describe how your general education courses have influenced your ethical values.
Explain why a college-educated person might have different duties to society than someone not as educated.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference entries of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations

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ETHICS AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT

Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal, academic, and professional growth

Being ethical means conducting oneself according to certain personal standards that are developed in order to promote decency. Ethics should be practices in all areas of our day to day activities. In academics, ethics are shown by students when they avoid cheating and plagiarism while doing their exams and assignments. Professionally managers and supervisors show ethics when they lead without favors or for personal gain.

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