Professional and personal hierarchies of ethical principles

Ruth Landau*, Rujla Osmo

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We explore social workers' perception of the importance and rank ordering of ethical principles. Do they have a generally agreed upon hierarchy of ethical principles? Do they apply similar hierarchies of ethical principles when facing different cases? Are their professional and personal hierarchies of ethical principles similar? The findings based on a structured questionnaire indicated that while social workers attach high importance to most ethical principles closely associated with social work, they do not hold a universal hierarchy of ethical principles. Social workers change their ethical hierarchies in different professional situations but there is no difference between their professional and personal ethical hierarchies. Implications for practice and education are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)42-49
Number of pages8
JournalInternational Journal of Social Welfare
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2003

Keywords

  • Ethical dilemmas
  • Ethical hierarchies
  • Ethical principles
  • Israel
  • Social workers
  • Values

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