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Professionalism, ethical codes and the public interest

5.2 Ethical behaviour

Ethical

behaviour

Issue – related Context – related
factors factors

5.3 Issue –related factors

 the nature of the ethical issue – issue-related factors

 how important the decision is to the decision maker

 the higher the intensity, the more likely it is that the decision maker will make an
ethical rather than an unethical decision.

5.4 Context related factors

These factors relate to how a particular issue would be viewed within a certain
context.

Key contextual factors are:

 system of reward

 authority

 bureaucracy

 work roles

 organisational group norms and culture

 national and cultural context.

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