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The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 was introduced by Representative Tom Foley (D-WA) to provide for government-wide ethics reform. Improvements to the 1978 act included civil penalties for appointees violating post-service employment regulations, and widening the net to include all employees of the Executive Department who hold a commission from the ...
Professional ethics encompass the personal and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. [1] The word professionalism originally applied to vows of a religious order. By no later than the year 1675, the term had seen secular application and was applied to the three learned professions: divinity, law, and medicine. [2]
"Don't be evil" is Google's former motto, and a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct. [1] [2] [3] [4]Following Google's corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took "Do the right thing" as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.
First page of a 1566 edition of the Aristotolic Ethics in Greek and Latin. The Nicomachean Ethics (/ ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n, ˌ n ɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. [1]:
In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: δέον, 'obligation, duty' + λόγος, 'study') is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action. [1]
Gotterbarn is an author of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice which promotes ethics among software engineers. [2] He is the chair of the Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Professional Ethics. [3] Gotterbarn is a Professor Emeritus at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. [2]
Annual training refers to the yearly training period conducted by all National Guard and Reserve components of the United States military pursuant to law and military service directives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Usually advertised as two weeks each year that personnel must attend, annual training periods have increased to as much as month-long events during ...
Don Shipley joined the United States Navy in 1978 and became a Navy SEAL in 1984 [4] after graduating from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training BUD/S class 131. [5] [better source needed] Following SEAL Basic Indoctrination (now known as SEAL Qualification Training or SQT) [6] and completion of a six-month probationary period, he received the NEC 5326 as a Combatant Swimmer (SEAL) and was ...