Summary Lesson 1C - Ethics in Communication

ETHICS IN COMMUNICATION
 MUTUALITY
 Pay attention to the needs of others as well as yours

 INDIVIDUAL DIGNITY
 Do not cause another
person embarrassment
or a loss of dignity

 ACCURACY
 Ensure that others have accurate information
 Tell them everything they have a right and need to know.

 ACCESS TO INFORMATION
 Never bolster the impact of your communication by preventing people from
communicating with one another or by hindering access to the supporting information

 ACCOUNTABILITY
 Be responsible and accountable for the consequences of your communication

 RELATIVE TRUTH
 As either sender or receiver of information, remember that your point of view may not
be shared by others and that your conclusions are relative to your perspective, so allow
others to respectfully disagree or see it differently.

 POWER
 In situations where you have more power than others...
(eg. teacher to a student, boss to subordinate, parent to a child)
 you have more responsibility for the outcome

 CONFIDENTIALITY
 Keeping of another person or entity’s information private

 FAKE NEWS
 Deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news
media or online social media.

 PLAGIARISM
 The practice of taking else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own

 OFFENSIVE MESSAGES
 Some messages can come off as offensive because there are references to age, gender,
race, income level, background, or educational level.