Personal Ethics Development

Ethics in my opinion are something that everyone naturally acquires as one grows up in a certain environment; even then a person can make their own choices on how ethical they choose to be. To completely different lifestyles of people can mutually agree on what is ethically sound and what may not be a moral choice. Ethics are standards that a person's behaviors are by how they may act when put into situations that allow them to exert them around everyone they are involved with in their everyday life. A more textbook definition of what ethics truly is are"The principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or organization" (Treviño & Nelson, 2007, p. 13); ethics form the basis for determining the correct action, or moral behavior, in a particular situation. An individual's personality is also based on their ethics and morals that they live by, which form the character,

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which is being trusting, respectful, responsible, fair and caring to others.

This rounds a person as a whole and decides who they really are even if they don't look it, it is always difficult to see what someone is really like until you notice what they really are like and not stereotype people based on physical traits and appearances alone. I have grown up in two completely different types of households, which I am amazed of how I seem to have the personal and professional ethics in my life from how my life was growing up. As a kid I was raised by my parents the first initial part of my childhood until mid-teenage years and then had lived with my grandparents the remaining years. My parents were never very strict when it came to having set rules, they would never allow me to behave badly, although I had much freedom to get away with things if I just knew not to tell them as I would definitely get in trouble. This is where my morals were not very good at the time since lying to my parents to...