I. Code of Ethics (COE)
A code of ethics is a personal or organizational set of codified standards of conduct guiding the organizational or businesses philosophy. As an example, the California Law Enforcement Code of Ethics serves as the ethical guide allowing officers to traverse two worlds, namely, the officers work place world subscribing to its own set ethical of precepts, and the officer’s intimate, personal world, meaning life at home. When personal core beliefs occasionally come into conflict with work ethics, it is important to solve the dilemma in a way that maintains organizational ethical standards of the profession without sacrificing individual core principles. Every sworn law enforcement officer in California is sworn to uphold the ethical code stated below as mandated by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (also known as CA POST).
Ethical Standards
3-1. Code of Ethics: To insure that all peace officers are fully aware of their individual responsibilities to maintain their own integrity and that of their agency, every peace officer, during basic training, or at the time of appointment, shall be administered the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, as prescribed in Regulation 1013 (California Commission, 2013).
Code of Ethics
3-2. As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional rights of all men to liberty, equality and justice (California Commission, 2013).
I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all; maintain courageous calm in the face of danger, scor...
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Leaders who treat their employees with fairness, honesty, and provide frequent, accurate information are seen as more effective. According to Robbins and Judge (2014), “trust is a primary attribute associated with leadership and followers who trust a leader are confident their rights and interest will not be abused” (p.193). The old General Motor Corporation had eleven different CEO’s from 1923 until 2009 each with their own unique leadership style, which directed employees toward the organization goals. Unfortunately, many of the top level managers under the CEO’s had the tendency of filtering out information that did not match up with their pre-conceived notions about a particular issue and they lacked upward communication. One consumer goal of General Motors was to build trust in the company so people would be repeat customers, but building trust between employees and establishing an ethical culture was not a top priority of the organization. Goal directed leadership alone is important, but differs from a structure of leadership based on ethics. It is important to note, that effective leadership may not be the same as leadership founded on ethical principles. Business competence must exist, along with personal leadership accountability in ethical decisions. Within the General Motors organization, ethics and leadership did not interconnect; there were misalignment between the
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Code of ethics is and organization’s written statement of its values and rules for ethical behavior is good starting point for supervisor to meet the challenges to ethical behavior.
If not all, at least the “duty of fidelity” since they are in a higher power of authority within the community being honest should be honored by the officer. This is also in reference to the “blue wall of silence” that officers go by as well. Secondly, “duty of reparation” which should be followed when it comes to gossiping on the job, not only that, but when excessive force is used against a person, this act could be seen as a form of bullying since the victim cannot resist in fear of further punishment which brings me to the last duty law enforcement officers should fulfill. The “duty of Nonharm or Nonmalfeasance” all citizens should feel a sense of security when law enforcement officers is involved, but when they are harmed or feel betrayed by the one person that is sworn to protect them, the respect becomes lost and total ( Williams, C., & Arrigo, B.(2015,August
The law enforcement officer has a conduct code that they are to adhere to so that they can impose the laws that are government for them to enforce to those that want to break them. They are to protect victims from being hurt as well as making sure that the individual knows his or her rights. Moral and ethics acts as an aid to make sure that the officer makes ethical choices when it comes to right and wrong and not based on an individual’s past experiences dealing with similar issues. The method that a law enforcement officer takes in a professional capacity is their ability to accept all that comes with the decisions they make in the community while upholding the departments reputation. Making the most ethical decision is simple, you have consequences for your actions that you take as well as choices and options. This is important because the community depends on the law enforcement officer making moral and ethical
For a company to be successful ethically, it must go beyond the notion of simple legal compliance and adopt a values-based organizational culture. A corporate code of ethics can be a very valuable and integral part of a company’s culture but I believe that it is not strong enough to stand alone. Thought and care must go into constructing the code of ethics and the implementation of it. Companies need to infuse ethics and integrity throughout their corporate culture as well as into their definition of success. To be successfully ethical, companies must go beyond the notion of simple legal compliance and adopt a values-based organizational culture.
Character and moral ethics are tested every day an officer performs his or her duty. The law enforcement code of ethics is a universal code that has been adapted by most law enforcement agencies; this code of conduct addresses numerous aspects of a peace officers duty. This code of ethics is summarized in the first initial paragraph:
Professionalism, ethics, and leadership are some of the core values that is so critical in the police department. Researchers determine that to build an effective policing, a police officer must have integrity and ethics in order to improve interactions with residents (Ethics and Integrity, n.d.). Ethics and leadership sets the tone and produce the high level of professionalism in the organization. Ethics principles in society’s mindset is that right is always better and wrong is always lead to serious consequences. For example, when a police officer fail to follow proper procedures, it gives the department a bad name and it shows that their department cannot be
The Code of Ethical Conduct provides professionals with a guideline as to how to address situations in the field in a profession manner by providing theory (ideals) and practice (principles) in four major areas which involve our ethical responsibility with children, families, colleagues, community and
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The Code of ethics is rules and principals that are set in place to help individuals to determine what is right and wro...
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Code of ethics is providing a guide of each profession like public, clients and fellow professionals. It also focuses on delivery, ethical reflection and decision making. In all professional field first they ask its legal and they refer to the law. Engineers and surveyors becoming more jurisdictions more by laws