The Influence of Value-Based Education on Ethical Actions of Professionals: A Review

Shaad Habeeb; Sanjay Bhattacharya

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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. 119-138: 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