ethical standards
Rules for conduct
Ethical standards are principles that guide behavior toward what is right, fair, and responsible.
They govern professional conduct, business practices, and institutional decision-making: The company violated basic ethical standards when it concealed the safety data.
Unlike laws, ethical standards often go unwritten but carry social and professional consequences when breached.
Fields like medicine, law, and journalism maintain formal codes of ethical standards.
- conflict of interestCompromised impartiality from competing stakes
- conflict resolutionSettling disputes between parties
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- deontologyMorality based on obligations
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
holding accountable · moral compass · do the right thing · transparency · good faith · consequentialism · fairness · honesty · whistleblowing · categorical imperative · code of conduct · compliance · fiduciary duty · professional conduct · utilitarianism · justice · public trust · equality
- moralitymoral, moral values, immoral, moral principles, moral code
- integrityintegrity, honesty, truthfulness, uprightness, rectitude
- moralsmorality, moral code, moral codes, moral compass, conscience
- standardsstandards, norm, norms, criterion, criteria
- bioethicsbioethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence, physician-assisted death
- ethicsmorality, deontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism
ethical standardsimmorality
Quality of being wicked
vice · wickedness · corruption · moral turpitude · dishonesty
ethical standardsself-interest
Concern for personal advantage
expedience · opportunism · expediency · Machiavellianism · moral relativism
ethical standardslawlessness
Absence of governing rules
amorality · anomie · anything goes · guidelessness · anarchy