Personal and Professional ethics go hand in hand. Ethics can be defined as a belief system that an individual holds on to while carrying out day to day activities. It cannot be a set of defined norms or regulations; in fact it is a way of life. One consciously doesn’t builds their beliefs nor do their thinking take shape overnight, they are established through experiences of childhood in the aforementioned environments.
The definition of right and wrong does not change for a person based on the environment. If honesty is a principal that one holds onto at home, he will also pursue it at work. 'Trust but verify' builds reliance on others and it is rare that one can find other psychic constituents in the workplace or in life for that matter. There are certain people who you would blindly trust, but this cannot be categorized under personal or professional. You will take their advice in both personal and professional stances.
I agree that there are certain situations wherein we have to prioritize between personal and professional life, but our conscience summons us to balance the two without being partial to one. Our moral beliefs guide us unconsciously to do the right thing. An ethically strong person will never tend to use undue means to rise the corporate ladder.
All of us have gone through situations where we have had to choose between right and wrong. I can relate to one such incident, I came across a bug in my code in the last phase of the development lifecycle. It was highly probable that it could go unnoticed and could be quietly fixed it in the next release. But it would have spoiled our relations with the client if at all it was caught. Even though it was my profession, I made a personal choice to stick to my beliefs.
It is human instinct to categorize things between right and wrong, but these definitions differ from person to person but not from one environment to other.
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