Assignment Problem: Review case study below and analyze the relationship among personal values, moral principles, and professional codes and standards in ethical decision making. You will need to identify which codes would guide professional conduct and how you would resolve ethical issues within the case scenario.
Include the following components:
1. Identify your personal values and morals as they relate to the case scenario.
2. Identify ethical issues present in the case scenario.
3. Analyze the relationship between personal morals and values and the APA professional codes and principles in ethical decision-making.
4. Discuss specific APA Codes that guide professional conduct.
5. Discuss how you would resolve the ethical issue(s) within the case scenario.
Case Scenarios:
Industrial and Organizational: You have decided to market your consulting business using workshops. You are excited to share your expertise and believe that you have helped many clients and many companies. Since you have a PhD in Business and a graduate degree in INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL psychology, you have decided to call yourself Dr. (Your name). You have reached out to several previous clients and asked them for referrals so that you can market your new workshop called "Fix your business with INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL psychologist Dr. (Your name)."
"Section 6: Record Keeping and Fees"
Citation:
Nagy, T. F. (2011). Approaches to ethical decision making. In T. F. Nagy, Essential ethics for psychologists: A primer for understanding and mastering core issues (pp. 147-170). American Psychological Association.
Abstract:
In recent years much has been written about ethical decision making for addressing situations commonly encountered by psychologists. This chapter focuses on a variety of ethical algorithms, approaches for decision making and addressing the problem of selecting the most ethical choice in complex situations. First, I review the need for such a process when ethical standards already exist that broadly address many areas of psychological work. There are many gray areas that neither the Ethics Code nor professional guidelines can adequately address because it is virtually impossible to take into account every variable in each situation involving an ethical dilemma. A partial answer is to combine general, guiding ethical principles and specific rules of conduct in the same document. As I have noted, the American Psychological Association (APA) Ethics Code attempts this by including both a set of core values providing the general context titled General Principles as well as specific rules of professional conduct titled Ethical Standards. The synthesis of these two sections helps address the gray areas that are inevitable in any professional setting. However, this is not always sufficient, and additional means of addressing ethical uncertainties are needed. In this chapter, I present approaches for ethical decision making, with an emphasis on multiple-role relationships because these constitute the most serious risks of harm to others. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)