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The Influence of Value-Based Education on Ethical Actions of Professionals: A Review
Shaad Habeeb
Dept. of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Sanjay Bhattacharya
School of HRM, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India
Volume 21: 2024 pp. 00-00: ABSTRACT
Value-based education and its connection with ethical decision-making among
professionals has been a subject for discussion in multiple professional disciplines in recent years.
Bridging the gap between value-based and ethics education, on the one hand, and ethical behavior,
on the other, remains contested. This paper set out to examine the literature on value-based and
ethics education and its influence on the ethical decision-making of professionals. While some
studies were found to depict a positive correlation between value-based education and ethical
actions, perceptions and decision-making of working professionals, others indicated an absence of
such a relationship or a weak relationship, and yet others qualified the relationship as based on the
nature or format of the training. Among the challenges are instances of organizational values being
at variance with those of a worker's profession and personal values. Although an ideal situation
would be a convergence of values, this is not always the case. Ethics and values were noted to be
situation- and context-sensitive, which creates opportunities to explore how profession-specific
values and ethics are affected by national and organizational cultural differences.
Keywords: values, education, ethics, ethical action, decision-making
