AN INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONALISM ✓ Can be written down or it can be
something you keep in the back of your
Professionalism mind.
• Considered as behaving within the appropriate ✓ Elements:
manner and adhering to accepted concepts and o How you treat yourself
practices. o How you treat loved ones
• Competence in IT, knowledge, and knowledge, and o How you treat strangers
various skills to bring about reputation, and ethical o Your expected behavior in
behavior and add value to any company. professional settings
• Offers a platform for ethical trade. o Your expected behavior in intimate
• Greatly improves profits, production, and high market settings
value within an organization. o How you will react to specific ethical
• Greatly benefits those who abide by it and impacts dilemmas
contemporary society in a good manner. o What behaviors from you are
unacceptable in any circumstance
Why IT professionalism and reliability is needed and why o How you will hold yourself
could it be important? accountable for different actions
• To enhance the expansion and add value to the 3. Institutional code.
business. ✓ Expresses the institution’s policies,
• Provide better services to clients. consistent with the public service it
• Improves trust with employers and employees in an affirms in its mission statement.
organization. ✓ A code puts the interests of the institution
• Create company’s own brand value. or of any individual and encourages
• Forms the pillar for company’s own eyesight and conduct that merits public confidence.
mission. 4. Community code.
• Improves customer satisfaction. ✓ Outlines our expectations for participants
within the community, as well as steps to
Profession vs Vocation reporting unacceptable behavior.
Profession – a trade, a business, an occupation, or a ✓ Anyone who violates this code may be
disciplined group of individuals who adhere to ethical banned from the community.
standards and who hold themselves out as, and are o Be friendly and patient.
accepted by the public as possessing special knowledge o Be welcoming.
and skills in a widely recognized body of learning derived o Be considerate.
from research, education, and training at a high level, and o Be respectful.
who are prepared to apply this knowledge and exercise o Be careful in the words that we
these skills in the interest of others. In the case of a choose.
professional, someone who derives their income from o Try to understand why we disagree.
their specific knowledge or experience – as opposed to a
worker, hobbyist, or amateur without formal education.
Code of Ethics of the Filipino Computing and Information
Recognition of professionals, their duties, and Technology Professional
responsibilities: Preamble:
(1) A set of highly developed skills and deep I will use my special knowledge and skills for the benefit
knowledge of the domain. of the public. I will serve employers and clients with
▪ Such skills must be backed up by a very well- integrity, subject to an overriding responsibility to the
developed knowledge base acquired through long public interest, and I will strive to enhance the
years of formal schooling. competence and prestige of the professional. By these, I
(2) Autonomy. mean:
▪ A power play in favor of the provider of the • I will promote public knowledge, understanding, and
service. appreciation of information technology;
▪ Professionals have autonomy to vary the way the • I will consider the general welfare and public good in
service is provided without asking the receiver for the performance of my work;
confirmation or consent. • I will advertise goods or professional services in a
(3) Observance of a code of conduct. clear and truthful manner;
▪ 4 types: • I will comply and strictly abide by the intellectual
1. Professional code. property laws, patent laws, and other related laws in
✓ A set of guidelines provided to the respect of information technology;
professional by the profession spelling • I will accept full responsibility for the work undertaken
out what a professional ought to do and and will utilize my skills with competence and
not do. professionalism;
✓ Protects both the image of the profession • I will make truthful statements on my areas of
and that of the individual members. competence as well as the capabilities and qualities
2. Personal code. of my products and services;
✓ Deeply personal and relates specifically • I will not disclose or use any confidential information
to you, the person writing it. obtained in the course of professional duties without
✓ Set of behavior rules you live by, guiding the consent of the parties concerned, except when
something you keep in the back of your
Professionalism mind.
• Considered as behaving within the appropriate ✓ Elements:
manner and adhering to accepted concepts and o How you treat yourself
practices. o How you treat loved ones
• Competence in IT, knowledge, and knowledge, and o How you treat strangers
various skills to bring about reputation, and ethical o Your expected behavior in
behavior and add value to any company. professional settings
• Offers a platform for ethical trade. o Your expected behavior in intimate
• Greatly improves profits, production, and high market settings
value within an organization. o How you will react to specific ethical
• Greatly benefits those who abide by it and impacts dilemmas
contemporary society in a good manner. o What behaviors from you are
unacceptable in any circumstance
Why IT professionalism and reliability is needed and why o How you will hold yourself
could it be important? accountable for different actions
• To enhance the expansion and add value to the 3. Institutional code.
business. ✓ Expresses the institution’s policies,
• Provide better services to clients. consistent with the public service it
• Improves trust with employers and employees in an affirms in its mission statement.
organization. ✓ A code puts the interests of the institution
• Create company’s own brand value. or of any individual and encourages
• Forms the pillar for company’s own eyesight and conduct that merits public confidence.
mission. 4. Community code.
• Improves customer satisfaction. ✓ Outlines our expectations for participants
within the community, as well as steps to
Profession vs Vocation reporting unacceptable behavior.
Profession – a trade, a business, an occupation, or a ✓ Anyone who violates this code may be
disciplined group of individuals who adhere to ethical banned from the community.
standards and who hold themselves out as, and are o Be friendly and patient.
accepted by the public as possessing special knowledge o Be welcoming.
and skills in a widely recognized body of learning derived o Be considerate.
from research, education, and training at a high level, and o Be respectful.
who are prepared to apply this knowledge and exercise o Be careful in the words that we
these skills in the interest of others. In the case of a choose.
professional, someone who derives their income from o Try to understand why we disagree.
their specific knowledge or experience – as opposed to a
worker, hobbyist, or amateur without formal education.
Code of Ethics of the Filipino Computing and Information
Recognition of professionals, their duties, and Technology Professional
responsibilities: Preamble:
(1) A set of highly developed skills and deep I will use my special knowledge and skills for the benefit
knowledge of the domain. of the public. I will serve employers and clients with
▪ Such skills must be backed up by a very well- integrity, subject to an overriding responsibility to the
developed knowledge base acquired through long public interest, and I will strive to enhance the
years of formal schooling. competence and prestige of the professional. By these, I
(2) Autonomy. mean:
▪ A power play in favor of the provider of the • I will promote public knowledge, understanding, and
service. appreciation of information technology;
▪ Professionals have autonomy to vary the way the • I will consider the general welfare and public good in
service is provided without asking the receiver for the performance of my work;
confirmation or consent. • I will advertise goods or professional services in a
(3) Observance of a code of conduct. clear and truthful manner;
▪ 4 types: • I will comply and strictly abide by the intellectual
1. Professional code. property laws, patent laws, and other related laws in
✓ A set of guidelines provided to the respect of information technology;
professional by the profession spelling • I will accept full responsibility for the work undertaken
out what a professional ought to do and and will utilize my skills with competence and
not do. professionalism;
✓ Protects both the image of the profession • I will make truthful statements on my areas of
and that of the individual members. competence as well as the capabilities and qualities
2. Personal code. of my products and services;
✓ Deeply personal and relates specifically • I will not disclose or use any confidential information
to you, the person writing it. obtained in the course of professional duties without
✓ Set of behavior rules you live by, guiding the consent of the parties concerned, except when
