What is professional integrity?
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Eriksen, A. (2015). What Is Professional Integrity? Etikk i praksis, 9(2), 3-17. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5324/eip.v9i2.1836 http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.5324/eip.v9i2.1836Sammendrag
What is professional integrity and what makes it so important? Policies are designed to
promote it and decisions are justified in its name. This paper identifies two competing
conceptions of professional integrity and argues that, on their own, both are deficient. In
response, this paper develops a third, interpretive view, in which professional integrity is
conceived as the virtue of being good on the word of the practice. Professions ask for the
public’s trust and in doing so, generate a set of legitimate expectations. Judgments of
professional integrity are informed by an interpretation of practice that is sensitive to this
normative situation