Reference no: EM13269042

You are required to conduct two interviews. One with a professional body (Such as those listed in the first assessment) and one with an individual working in a profession. You need to devise a series of interview questions to understand how ethics and professional behaviour impacts individuals in their real work life. These can be conducted face to face, or by telephone, as a last choice by email. You may want to elaborate or ask other questions once you have heard the answer.

Speaking with a professional body to understand what issues arise for the professional body and how they police their code? How do they communicate it to their members? Are there legal ramifications if the code is breached? Do they have to do continual education? Etc.

Speaking with an individual to understand how aware are they of their professional body's codes and of their organisations codes - if they have one. What influence do these codes have on their behaviour? What can the consequences be for them in their career if they breach either their professional body's code or the organisations code/s?

Then reflect on what this means for you in your career and what actions should you take to ensure that you are always acting professionally and ethically. Also reflect on the similarities and differences between the professional body and the individual working in a profession. Do they both give adherence to the codes the same importance?
Rationale

The aim of this assessment is to:

• To get a real world understanding of how codes of ethics/ conduct /behaviour impact individuals in their career;

• To understand the difference between a professional bodies code and expectation of their members and the member's expectations and actions;

• To understand codes of ethics/conduct/behaviour in an organisation and the impact it has on employees; and

• To reflect on this in your career.