Exam 1: What Is It to Be a Professional the Professions, Leadership, and Work

Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients. -"Deprofessionalizing the law," according to Wasserstrom, would

Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients. -The relationship of inequality between lawyers and clients is intrinsic to the existence of professionalism for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Samuel Gorovitz | Good Doctors According to Gorovitz, medical schools ought to impart not just technical knowledge but also ethical values and practical experience. He offers a number of suggestions on how best to achieve this goal to ensure that future doctors are equipped not only with the best of current knowledge and skills but also with the moral sensitivity necessary to communicate well with patients in complex situations. -According to Gorovitz, medical school admission committees could elevate the character of future doctors by selecting students who

Samuel Gorovitz | Good Doctors According to Gorovitz, medical schools ought to impart not just technical knowledge but also ethical values and practical experience. He offers a number of suggestions on how best to achieve this goal to ensure that future doctors are equipped not only with the best of current knowledge and skills but also with the moral sensitivity necessary to communicate well with patients in complex situations. -Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a good physician?

Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients. -According to Wasserstrom, lawyers tend to see their clients as ___________ rather than persons.

Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients. -In comparing lawyers to parents and scientists, Wasserstrom is making the point that

Michael D. Bayles | The Professions In this reading, Bayles discusses the characteristics of being a professional and the complex relationship between generally autonomous professionals and their supervisors. He distinguishes between consulting and scholarly professions, concluding with a discussion of how professions monopolize services in order to keep out untrained practitioners. -Which of the following is NOT considered a consulting profession?

Michael Davis | Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules? Davis criticizes the view that professional responsibility goes beyond merely following the rules of one's code of ethics by necessarily involving certain character virtues. Rather, if a code of ethics is well-written, following these rules means that a professional is acting responsibly. He discusses seven different interpretations of "just following the rules": blind obedience, strict obedience, malicious obedience, negligent obedience, accidental obedience, stupid obedience, concluding with a positive discussion of interpretative obedience. -Which of the following is NOT a characteristic associated with negligent obedience?

Michael D. Bayles | The Professions In this reading, Bayles discusses the characteristics of being a professional and the complex relationship between generally autonomous professionals and their supervisors. He distinguishes between consulting and scholarly professions, concluding with a discussion of how professions monopolize services in order to keep out untrained practitioners. -The services professionals provide, such as justice, equality, safety, and health, portray the ___________ of a society.

Samuel Gorovitz | Good Doctors According to Gorovitz, medical schools ought to impart not just technical knowledge but also ethical values and practical experience. He offers a number of suggestions on how best to achieve this goal to ensure that future doctors are equipped not only with the best of current knowledge and skills but also with the moral sensitivity necessary to communicate well with patients in complex situations. -Gorovitz finds strengths and weaknesses in Aristotle's view that the best way to bring moral judgment within the sphere of education is

Case 1.1: "Professionalism and Nursing" -How do personal considerations, such as being single or having children, play a role in deciding who should be able to hold more responsibility or devote more time to one's daily profession or work? Should considerations such as these be relevant in a case like Diane's? Explain your answer.

According to Bayles, what specific characteristics are shared by most professionals, and how do they function similarly or differently in both consulting and scholarly professional work? Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?

Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients. -The adversary system only works if

Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics Stovall introduces Aristotle's main arguments and definitions from the Nicomachean Ethics and discusses how professional virtue can best be seen as a subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues. He uses the example of professional engineering virtues to make his case, further emphasizing the role of professional self-awareness in developing a flourishing and successful professional career. -Stovall states that the ___________ of a profession is that which uniquely specifies it as the profession it is.

Joanne B. Ciulla | What Is Good Leadership? Ciulla discusses the importance have having both an ethical and an effective leader and why it is often difficult to find both qualities in the same individual. When one is emphasized without the other, a leader may have moral character but not be able to effect genuine change or be able to produce end results by questionable means. -Who wrote, "The intentions or reasons for an act tell us something about the morality of the person, but the ends of an act tell us about the morality of the action"?

Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics Stovall introduces Aristotle's main arguments and definitions from the Nicomachean Ethics and discusses how professional virtue can best be seen as a subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues. He uses the example of professional engineering virtues to make his case, further emphasizing the role of professional self-awareness in developing a flourishing and successful professional career. -For Aristotle, it is the virtue of ___________ that mediates between human rationality and professional behavior.

Do you agree with Stovall's description of the role of professional self-awareness in mitigating the extremes of narrow, personal ambition and unrealistic idealism? Use Stovall's example of the engineering profession to illustrate your answer.

Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics Stovall introduces Aristotle's main arguments and definitions from the Nicomachean Ethics and discusses how professional virtue can best be seen as a subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues. He uses the example of professional engineering virtues to make his case, further emphasizing the role of professional self-awareness in developing a flourishing and successful professional career. -According to Stovall, professional ethics characterized as Aristotelian ethical virtues support the individual in building

Michael Davis | Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules? Davis criticizes the view that professional responsibility goes beyond merely following the rules of one's code of ethics by necessarily involving certain character virtues. Rather, if a code of ethics is well-written, following these rules means that a professional is acting responsibly. He discusses seven different interpretations of "just following the rules": blind obedience, strict obedience, malicious obedience, negligent obedience, accidental obedience, stupid obedience, concluding with a positive discussion of interpretative obedience. -The most common form of stupid obedience in professional ethics is

Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics Stovall introduces Aristotle's main arguments and definitions from the Nicomachean Ethics and discusses how professional virtue can best be seen as a subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues. He uses the example of professional engineering virtues to make his case, further emphasizing the role of professional self-awareness in developing a flourishing and successful professional career. -In a well-ordered society, according to Stovall, the virtuous professional is the ___________ professional.