Professional Skills Development for Practice and Profession

Question: Discuss about theProfessional Skills Development for Practice and Profession. Answer: Portfolio 1-Annotated bibliography Reference 1: Leicester, N. (2016). Ethics in the IT Profession: Does a Code of Ethics have an Effect on Professional Behaviour?, 11(4), 140-151 The journal helps to understand the importance of ethics in a professional place. The importance of the development of a code of ethics has been described with viewpoints made by the author. The author has clearly stated that in order to pursue a successful profession it is needed that people pursue ethical context in the workplace. The development of code of ethics is formed to guide professional behaviour among the people. The study interviews IT professionals working in New Zealand. Each professional is provided with ethical code sheet in order to identify the responses given by the people keeping in mind the codes. The professionals provide their view based on scenarios present in a case study. The small sample size denotes the act that this is an indicative research and can be conducted again in the future. Reference 2: Warren, M., Warren, M., Lucas, R., Lucas, R. (2016). Ethics and ICT: Why all the fuss?.Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society,14(2), 167-169. The journal introduces special sections that provide a clear indication about the sections mentioned in the code of ethics. The author of the paper also provides significant moments about the evaluation of these codes. The contextual moments provide an understanding of the methods of research. Based on this the research is carried out in order to identify the techniques required for maintaining ethical conduct. The initiative taken by the Australian Government to broaden ICT ethics is described in the journal. This provides an overview about the ways by which Australian initiative can be taken in account. An attempt has been made in order to bring together the new ethics and the academic courses together. This can help in identifying the extent to which one required the use of ethics in every professional field. Reference 3: McDermid, D. (2015).Ethics in ICT: an Australian perspective. Pearson Higher Education AU. This particular book highlights the formation of Australian ICT codes. The codes provide an overview the ethical practises that are needed in order to maintain professional in the work place. The ICT codes are Government codes that help in the identification of ethical culture in the field of work. The author encourages the perspective of Australian code rather than following the American code. The book is mainly intended for students pursuing a career in mastering in ICT code. The book provides the laws and principles required to be maintained in the ethical codes. This can help in the future development of the people and help in creating a proper code of conduct around every workplace. Reference 4: Burmeister, O., Al-Saggaf, Y., Schwartz, M., Johnson, L. (2014). Internet resources to help Australian ICT professionals identify and solve ethical challenges. ACIS, 23(2), 125-133 The journal helps to understand the challenges faced by ICT professionals every day. The author explores the challenges identified in over 2000 industries. As identified by the author the challenges come in various forms that threaten the existence of ICT professionals. One of the major problems that they face is the issues involving ethics. These ethical conduct need to be maintained in order to manage the professionalism that exists in the workplace. 43 participants were interviewed in order to understand the common challenges faced by the professionals and the solutions adopted to solve these issues. These were recorded in order to conduct further research about the ways by which the issues can be prevented in the future. Effective solutions were developed for this purpose. Reference 5: Crystal, N. M. (2017).Professional responsibility: Problems of practice and the profession. Wolters Kluwer Law Business. The book is based on the problems that individuals face regarding ICT application. Professional and skilled employees can do the use of ICT in order to use it effectively in a workplace. The roles performed by the individuals in this regard indicate the professional training required by which this can be performed. The duties that are required to be done by a professional in the ICT field are focused in this book. The author states certain rules that need to be cleared while maintaining the ethical codes and applying ICT in the field. These rules determine the ways by which one can understand the use of ICT in a professional business. The responsibilities are also stated based on the practise of the ethical conduct codes. Portfolio 2-Reflective writing From the experience, I have learned that working in groups is very important as it helps in the formulation of trust and completes the assigned task on time. Contribution as a group has helped me to identify the importance of working together in order to make a presentation successful. At the initial phase, I had difficulties in order to adjust with varied thoughts coming from other people. However, with time, the difficulties were overcome and a successful team was built. My contribution in the group had been to gather information regarding the challenges faced by professionals in the course of ethical codes in a workplace. I had contributed to making a proper research regarding the use the codes and the value it adds to the success of an organisation. This contributed positively for the team as others could manage other works required for the project. However, I failed to perform multitasking abilities in order to help more in the team. My whole time was devoted to the research behind the implications of ethical codes in organisations. This proved by a setback for the team as more work needed to be completed in less number of days. From the experience, I had learned that working in a team needs an ability to be multitasking. Any responsibility provided to the member needs to be solved quickly and efficiently in order to move forward and help in other activities. This increases the value of an individual as well as the effectiveness of the team in order to attain success. I had learned that trust and teamwork could help in the efficiency of a team and keep the members united. However, there are things that I would like to do differently in the future. In the future, I would want to complete my tasks quickly and help others in completing their tasks. I need to make a valuable contribution to my team so that the team can develop itself properly and face any challenges that they face. I would also like to adopt a different role in terms of helping my team if my current role is the cause of the failure of the project. The positives encountered by me while presenting the project was the fact that I could learn about the ACS Code of Ethics in detail. I could identify the challenges that exist in the professional world and the ways to mitigate these challenges. My research helped my team to complete the project on time. However, on a negative side, I had failed to gather more scenarios that could have made my presentation stronger. I need to improve on this so that I can ensure that in future I can make my presentation more successful. Portfolio 3-Response to ethical scenario Ethical conduct is important to prevent an organisation from being biased o any employee (Johnson, 2017). The experience that occurred regarding the loss of scholarship despite the hard work indicated the fact that biases exist in every industry. Hence, I have learned that I need to take care of certain things by myself in order to succeed at the professional level. The lack of ethical code in the workplace led to the occurrence of such a scenario. In this particular situation, I had to report to other students who were deprived of the scholarship. I had contributed to the experience by putting my voice up against such unethical practice. The way by which I was deprived by my scholarship despite having good grades and being hard working led me to be disappointed. Thereby, the positive thing that I did was to include those members who had suffered the same way like me. This led me to point out the flaws in the ethics of the place. However, the negative thing that I did was I had not w aited to see whether the decision can be reversed or whether I get the scholarship. I need to consider such an aspect in order to improve my judgement. From the experience, I have learned that organisational politics may exist without a proper ethical code of conduct. According to Kelly, (2014), this can lead to the loss of opportunities for many deserving candidates. The candidates that are supposedly powerful in terms of finances may get the opportunities due to lack of an ethical code of conduct. In the light of this, it can be said that in a future time, I could have handled the situation in a more matured manner than I had done in the present scenario. In this case, the elements that are needed to be considered for the ACS document include the professional development. Professional development helps in addressing the responsibilities in a workplace (Crystal, 2017). It enhances professional development and ensures that every member receives equal treatment in a workplace. In my case, this is an important element favouritism had taken place in the workplace. Apart from this, the other element that I need to consider is the professionalism. This is important in order to highlight the injustice done in the work place (Hardy, 2016). In this case, providing the information to the public could have had a positive impact on the workplace and brought about ethical code. Portfolio 4-Completion of task Interpersonal skill was used in order to communicate ideas regarding the choice of topic. I had listened carefully to the topics that were presented in front of me before verbally communicating about the pros and cons of the topic and the ways it can be educative for students. One way by which I had used my reading skills is by researching about the challenges that are faced by people in a workplace. The ethical codes that are to be maintained are in large numbers and as a result, lots of research was done to identify the codes and its punishment for violation. During my presentation, I had provided an in-depth knowledge about the ways by which professional can maintain ethical codes in a workplace. I had researched a lot on this topic and hence, it was easy for me to communicate my knowledge during my presentation. These helped in gaining more points for the team. During the assessment, I had developed an understanding of the ICT domain. I had presented this while identifying the challenges and the ways by which one can mitigate the challenges. The challenges were in the form of ethical behaviours, social and privacy issues that can harm a particular workplace. Before joining the group for presentation, I did not have proper communication skills. Hence, it was difficult for me to provide my ideas to the people. However, with time I developed this skill by constantly talking with people and gaining new ideas from them. This was effective for developing my communication skills. I had read articles about the use of ICT and the impact it can cause if not improved from time to time. This research helped me to understand the ways by which ICT can be implemented in the organisation effectively. The implementation can help in improving the organisational process. HipChat and XWiki Collaboration Suite are two technologies that can be used effectively for communication and collaboration purpose. These two technologies are unique and can improve the process of sharing information discreetly from one member to another. The benefits of these technologies are the fact that information can be shared in a cryptic manner that can be free from attacks from hackers. Thus, these two technologies can help an organisation to pass on information from one organisation to another without any fear of leakage on information. The two things that I like about this unit is the fact that I can understand the ethical code of workplaces and the communication technologies required for success in an organisation. The reason for these two topics being my favourite is the fact that proper knowledge can be gained from the use of technologies in an organisation. The two areas that need improvement in the unit is the ability to show personal development and the ways by which ICT can be applied in a specific organisation. These areas require improvement because the application of these in a specific organisation can help in understanding the ways by which ethical code and technologies can be used explicitly. Bibliography Burmeister, O., Al-Saggaf, Y., Schwartz, M., Johnson, L. (2014). Internet resources to help Australian ICT professionals identify and solve ethical challenges. ACIS, 23(2), 125-133. Crystal, N. M. (2017).Professional responsibility: Problems of practice and the profession. Wolters Kluwer Law Business. 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