Evaluation and Ethics
Evaluation and Ethics
Any organization can adopt a code of ethics that requires them to enhance their employees, leadership, and other stakeholders in order to survive based on fairness, justice, and under the rules and regulations equally and justifiably. It is essential to establish values and standards that apply to everyone in professional environments. Violation of these principles may contemplate as ethical violation leading to challenges and consequences. Velasquez, Andre, Shanks and Meyer (1987) agree that ethics is not the only standard, but also a continued personal and leadership effort of “studying our own moral beliefs and our moral conduct, and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly-based” (para. 9). Landauer and Rowlands (2001) stated ethics is a concept answering the question of “what do I do” (para. 1). Landauer and Rowlands also define ethics as “the branch of study dealing with what is the proper course of action for man”.
Evaluation plays a vital role to an organization in many ways. The evaluator is responsible for reporting facts based on investigation, researches, data collecting, and surveys in order to establish justifiable, reliable, and fair reports with a much more possible away from being subjective and biased. Evaluator findings and reporting’s that may lead to some or major changes that require professional ethical behaviors. There is no way for an evaluator to pick and choice of convenience and lead-in results assuming this finding is a fact and report it to the client. However, there are many cases of ethical violations that can effect an individual and an organization.
Fitzpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen (2011) advise that the purpose of evaluation to demonstrate with accountability assisting decision making to explore problems involving and helping stakeholders to change and influence attitudes and policy. Fitzpatrick, et al. also suggests several
Any organization can adopt a code of ethics that requires them to enhance their employees, leadership, and other stakeholders in order to survive based on fairness, justice, and under the rules and regulations equally and justifiably. It is essential to establish values and standards that apply to everyone in professional environments. Violation of these principles may contemplate as ethical violation leading to challenges and consequences. Velasquez, Andre, Shanks and Meyer (1987) agree that ethics is not the only standard, but also a continued personal and leadership effort of “studying our own moral beliefs and our moral conduct, and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly-based” (para. 9). Landauer and Rowlands (2001) stated ethics is a concept answering the question of “what do I do” (para. 1). Landauer and Rowlands also define ethics as “the branch of study dealing with what is the proper course of action for man”.
Evaluation plays a vital role to an organization in many ways. The evaluator is responsible for reporting facts based on investigation, researches, data collecting, and surveys in order to establish justifiable, reliable, and fair reports with a much more possible away from being subjective and biased. Evaluator findings and reporting’s that may lead to some or major changes that require professional ethical behaviors. There is no way for an evaluator to pick and choice of convenience and lead-in results assuming this finding is a fact and report it to the client. However, there are many cases of ethical violations that can effect an individual and an organization.
Fitzpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen (2011) advise that the purpose of evaluation to demonstrate with accountability assisting decision making to explore problems involving and helping stakeholders to change and influence attitudes and policy. Fitzpatrick, et al. also suggests several