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

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. -In accidental obedience,

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. -Unlike Plato, Aristotle felt that right action flows from one's ___________, not from understanding alone.

Bayles argues that professionals have the privilege of practicing their work as opposed to having a right to practice. Do you agree? Why or why not?

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. -The film of the badly burned victim focuses on which of the following ethical issues?

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 defines blind obedience?

Wasserstrom believes that lawyers should be more rather than less moral in fulfilling their duties toward clients and presents a number of reasons in support of this thesis. Present his argument clearly, stating these supporting reasons, and discuss whether or not you are in agreement with the author and why.

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. -Good leaders do NOT require

Henry Mintzberg | The Professional Organization Mintzberg first discusses the basic structure and uniqueness of professional organizations and how they differ from machine bureaucracies and innovative organizations. He then presents various forms and models of professional organizations. Finally, he shows how the characteristics of being both democratic and autonomous can lead to favorable as well as unfavorable conditions among professionals. -Which of the following models describes a professional organization built on common interest as the guiding force, in which decision-making is by consensus?

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. -Since physicians are often asked to provide expertise in matters of public policy, they also need to have been trained in ___________ responsibility.

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. -Malicious obedience is

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. -Each type of rule-following acknowledges that rules must be interpreted in some way EXCEPT ___________ obedience.

Henry Mintzberg | The Professional Organization Mintzberg first discusses the basic structure and uniqueness of professional organizations and how they differ from machine bureaucracies and innovative organizations. He then presents various forms and models of professional organizations. Finally, he shows how the characteristics of being both democratic and autonomous can lead to favorable as well as unfavorable conditions among professionals. -Change in professional organizations may be brought about best by calling on professionals' sense of

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 believes that medical education fails to incorporate sufficient training in the ___________ that arise in the practice of medicine.

Case 1.3: Michael C. Loui, "The Professional Engineer" -Individual characteristics, such as accuracy and independence, are listed alongside team-building skills, such as collaboration and good communication. How would you incorporate these disparate characteristics into the professional training of an engineer?

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. -Professional associations and organizations differ from trade unions in that they

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. -Whereas earlier authors upheld the moral virtues of leaders over their personality traits, by the twentieth century, scholars

Henry Mintzberg | The Professional Organization Mintzberg first discusses the basic structure and uniqueness of professional organizations and how they differ from machine bureaucracies and innovative organizations. He then presents various forms and models of professional organizations. Finally, he shows how the characteristics of being both democratic and autonomous can lead to favorable as well as unfavorable conditions among professionals. -Resistance to innovation by professionals is due to their

Stovall discusses the relationship between being professionally virtuous and having a flourishing and successful career, understood as following from Aristotle's model of the ethical virtues. 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. -Wasserstrom examines all of the following ethical criticisms of lawyers, EXCEPT their

Henry Mintzberg | The Professional Organization Mintzberg first discusses the basic structure and uniqueness of professional organizations and how they differ from machine bureaucracies and innovative organizations. He then presents various forms and models of professional organizations. Finally, he shows how the characteristics of being both democratic and autonomous can lead to favorable as well as unfavorable conditions among professionals. -In which type of organization do the workers appear to manage their bosses?