Chapter 3 Blog Post

I found that the codes, procedures, and standards in our Communication Ethics book the most interesting in this chapter because I could relate it to personal present and past employment experiences. The book says that these ethics are "protecting and promoting the good of corporately agreed-upon regulations" (p.50). which in further recognition, is something most people can relate to considering the majority of us have worked in an environment where there are ethical guidelines posted for each employee to review.

These codes, procedures, and/or standards are set in place in organizations to ensure ethical commonalities on what is and what is not appropriate in a particular environment. For example, I work at a hotel and there are standards, codes, and procedures in many areas such as food handling, sexual harassment, cleanliness, etc. These are set so that each employee has something to reference in order to maintain the institution's regulations. The book gives a great example of this when it refers to an ancient code known as the Hippocratic oath which "binds physicians to "do no harm" to those for whom they provide medical care" (p.50). This may not be an example that we are familiar with; however, when it comes to restaurant or retail industry service and ethics, there are written and unwritten codes, procedures and standards that employees abide by.

I highly encourage everyone to recognize the National Community Association's responsible behavior guideline's values such as respect for self and others, equality of opportunity, integrity, professional and social responsibility, etc. These are not only values that support the industry or profession, but they are recognizably important in ones personal life also. As the book states, this area is something that requires "periodic revisiting" (p. 51), and I also believe that it should relate to one's job/career and personal life on an everyday basis.