The media has an important role to play in providing information to form the perceptions of media users on HIV/Aids. Furthermore, the media has an agenda setting function through which it determines what news consumers think about, and how they think about these topics they are presented with. Extensive media coverage has been given to the subject of HIV/Aids since the start of the pandemic. The nature of the coverage has, however, been widely criticised, mainly by interest groups actively involved in the fight against the disease. Few formal guidelines exist to guide journalists in this field. Moreover, the existing guidelines that originated mainly from the gaps interest groups identified in the coverage on HIV/Aids, are fairly fragmented. Many newspapers follow the general guidelines set by the media industry for ethical news reporting. These guidelines, such as the ethical code of the Press Ombudsman, are a result of self regulation, which is intrinsic to the social responsibility model that is seen as ideal for South Africa. There are several existing codes offering guidance regarding professional standards and general conduct. Only one - that of the now inactive South African Union of Journalists - includes criteria on HIV/Aids reporting. Through formulating guidelines, interest groups have an agenda setting function and a subsequent potential influence on the media and the public agenda. This paper endeavours to analyse and systematically summarise criteria set by the interest groups for ethically acceptable and accountable HIV/Aids reporting against the background of the agenda setting theory and the social responsibility model. In addition, HIV/Aids reporting in three Sunday papers (the Sunday Times, Sunday Sun and Rapport) is verified against these interest group criteria to ascertain how it measures up, and to determine whether a separate interest group code of ethics is desirable. It was found that the Sunday Times views HIV/Aids as a news priority, while the topic does not feature very high on the agenda of the other two papers. The analysis of news items created the impression that journalists have a basic knowledge of HIV/Aids. However, there is little evidence of deeper insight into the potential impact the media could have on the public's perception of the epidemic. Existing ethics codes compare well to interest group guidelines where general professional standards and ethical aspects are concerned. The interest group guidelines, however, focus on specific problems associated with the epidemic, such as stigma and a tendency to focus on the negative. It is within this applied context that such criteria could be useful. / Thesis (M.A. (Communication Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

<p> </p><p>The aim of this essay is to gain knowledge of how individual social students believe that ethical codes should be used in social work, and what the individual social students believe that an ethical code should contain. In this essay I have chosen to work on a qualitative approach because I am looking for subjective experiences. I have chosen to use my focused interviews as data collection method. Interviews are a good choice to find out people's experiences of a phenomenon. The result shows that some of the students felt that ethical codes should be used as support for ethical decisions in their daily work. The other students felt that ethical codes should be used in various forms of mentoring groups, which reflected on ethical dilemmas. Finally, I had a question about what the social students felt that the ethics code should contain. The answer to this question was a rather belated response: the rights of clients, responsibilities for social workers, emphasis on what is important in social work, and what characteristics you should have as a social worker.</p>

The aim of this essay is to gain knowledge of how individual social students believe that ethical codes should be used in social work, and what the individual social students believe that an ethical code should contain. In this essay I have chosen to work on a qualitative approach because I am looking for subjective experiences. I have chosen to use my focused interviews as data collection method. Interviews are a good choice to find out people's experiences of a phenomenon. The result shows that some of the students felt that ethical codes should be used as support for ethical decisions in their daily work. The other students felt that ethical codes should be used in various forms of mentoring groups, which reflected on ethical dilemmas. Finally, I had a question about what the social students felt that the ethics code should contain. The answer to this question was a rather belated response: the rights of clients, responsibilities for social workers, emphasis on what is important in social work, and what characteristics you should have as a social worker.

The media has an important role to play in providing information to form the perceptions of media users on HIV/Aids. Furthermore, the media has an agenda setting function through which it determines what news consumers think about, and how they think about these topics they are presented with. Extensive media coverage has been given to the subject of HIV/Aids since the start of the pandemic. The nature of the coverage has, however, been widely criticised, mainly by interest groups actively involved in the fight against the disease. Few formal guidelines exist to guide journalists in this field. Moreover, the existing guidelines that originated mainly from the gaps interest groups identified in the coverage on HIV/Aids, are fairly fragmented. Many newspapers follow the general guidelines set by the media industry for ethical news reporting. These guidelines, such as the ethical code of the Press Ombudsman, are a result of self regulation, which is intrinsic to the social responsibility model that is seen as ideal for South Africa. There are several existing codes offering guidance regarding professional standards and general conduct. Only one - that of the now inactive South African Union of Journalists - includes criteria on HIV/Aids reporting. Through formulating guidelines, interest groups have an agenda setting function and a subsequent potential influence on the media and the public agenda. This paper endeavours to analyse and systematically summarise criteria set by the interest groups for ethically acceptable and accountable HIV/Aids reporting against the background of the agenda setting theory and the social responsibility model. In addition, HIV/Aids reporting in three Sunday papers (the Sunday Times, Sunday Sun and Rapport) is verified against these interest group criteria to ascertain how it measures up, and to determine whether a separate interest group code of ethics is desirable. It was found that the Sunday Times views HIV/Aids as a news priority, while the topic does not feature very high on the agenda of the other two papers. The analysis of news items created the impression that journalists have a basic knowledge of HIV/Aids. However, there is little evidence of deeper insight into the potential impact the media could have on the public's perception of the epidemic. Existing ethics codes compare well to interest group guidelines where general professional standards and ethical aspects are concerned. The interest group guidelines, however, focus on specific problems associated with the epidemic, such as stigma and a tendency to focus on the negative. It is within this applied context that such criteria could be useful. / Thesis (M.A. (Communication Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

The thesis deals with the issue of ethical codes and codes of good governance and their application in selected financial institutions Banks in Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and abroad ( VÚB, Citibank, Komerční Banka and HSBC ). Within the framework of the theoretical background is presented the complexity of the relationship of the ethics and the banking sector in the form of the creation and implementation of Aegean codes and the implementation of the policy of corporate social responsibility. In the practical part is a comparative analysis of the codes of ethics of four selected banks with an evaluation of the questionnaire surveys of their clients which reflect their view of the ethical values of the bank and their compliance with the principle sections of these codes.

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka om de demografiska faktorerna kön, ålder och arbetslivserfarenhet påverkar de etiska värderingarna. Studien kommer även undersöka om de etiska koderna inom företagen påverkar de etiska värderingarna i givna situationer bland försäljare i tjänsteföretag. Förtydligande: Med givna situationer menas de situationer som anges i enkäten (bilaga 2). Metod: I studien användes en kvantitativ metod där en enkät med stängda svarsalternativ skickades ut till 863 respondenter. I enkäten användes både nominal- och ordinalskalor för att göra det möjligt att använda korrelation, faktor och klusteranalys samt t-test med hjälp av den statistiska mjukvaran IBM SPSS. Analyserna användes sedan för att besvara de forskningsfrågor som utformats genom teorin. Resultat: Resultatet visade att åldern har ett svagt samband med en fastighetsmäklares etiska värderingar och är därmed inte en avgörande faktor i det här fallet. Den andra demografiska faktorn kön visade sig inte ha något samband alls med en fastighetsmäklares etiska värderingar. Vid en ytterligare analys med hjälp av t-test där en analys av de båda könen gjordes, konstaterades det att det inte fanns någon skillnad mellan män och kvinnor och de etiska värderingarna. Resultatet visade också att arbetslivserfarenheten inte har något signifikant samband med en fastighetsmäklares etiska värderingar. De etiska koderna var enligt vårt resultat inte någon påverkande faktor på fastighetsmäklares etiska värderingar. Studiens bidrag: Syftet med studien är att undersöka om kön, ålder, arbetslivserfarenhet och etiska koder påverkar de etiska värderingarna i givna situationer bland försäljare i tjänsteföretag. Vår förhoppning är att studien ska kunna bidra med ytterligare information kring vad det är som kan påverka en fastighetsmäklares etiska värderingar. Förslag till vidare forskning: Vår förhoppning är att vidare forskning ska kunna utveckla det resultat som studien bidragit med. Förslag till fortsatta studier är att undersöka andra demografiska faktorer som kan påverka de etiska värderingarna och om ledaren inom företaget är en möjlig påverkande faktor, men också om en undersökning för Sveriges alla fastighetsmäklare skulle göra resultatet annorlunda.   Nyckelord: Fastighetsmäklare, etiskt klimat, etiska koder, marknadsföring, kön, ålder, arbetslivserfarenhet. / Aim: The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the demographic factors of gender, age and work experience affect the ethical values. The study will also examine the ethical codes within companies influence the ethical values of given situations among vendors in service. Clarification: With the given situations meant the situations described in the survey (Annex 2). Method: In the study a quantitative method was used in which a survey with closed response options was sent out to 863 respondents. In the survey both nominal- and ordinal scales was used to allow correlation, factor, cluster analysis and t-tests with the IBM SPSS computer software. The analyzes were then used to answer the research questions that deduced through the theory. Result: The results showed that age only has a weak connection with a real estate broker's ethical values and is thus not a decisive factor in this case. The second demographic factor sex was found to have no connection at all with a real estate broker's ethical values. In a further analysis using the t-test where an analysis of both sexes was made, it was found that there was no difference between men and women and ethical values. The results also showed that work experience has no significant relationship with a real estate broker's ethical values. Contribution: The purpose of the study is to investigate whether gender, age, work experience and ethical codes affect the ethical values of given situations among vendors in service. Our hope is that the study should be able to contribute with additional information about what it is that can affect a real estate broker's ethical values. Proposal for further studies: Our hope is that further research to develop the results that the study contributed. Proposal for further studies is to investigate other demographic factors that may affect the ethical values and if the leader of the company is a possible influencing factor, but also if a survey for Sweden’s all real estate broker´s would make the outcome different. Keywords: Real estate broker´s, ethical climate, ethical codes, marketing, gender, age, work experience.

The aim of my thesis is the comparison of demands for the quality in social work and health care required by legislation and expert sources. This thesis deals with quality standards in these professions, which, nowadays, represent a necessary component for the execution of these fields. Both disciplines endeavour to increase the quality of patient´s life in various ways. Furthermore, health care highlights a sanitary component.

Thesis deals with the ethical problems at the wards of psychiatric hospital. The environment of a psychiatric hospital in the context of its target group psychiatric patients is a source of ethically important situations, which must be solved by the medical social worker. This puts high demands on the worker as he is the/an executive tool of medical social work.The goal of the thesis is to identify ethically important situations, to suggest their solution and eventually to reflect these solutions with the ethical theories, ethical codes, inner rules of the psychiatric hospital and other statutory norms. The structure of the thesis is adjusted to this goal: first, I define the environment of the hospital, describe the target group and medical social worker profession. Secondly, I describe ethical problems identified before, suggest their solutions and reflect them. Finally, in the last part of the thesis, in the discussion, I contemplate about preliminary ethical understanding as a basis for identification of the ethical problems and I ponder other factors that matters in reaching the remedies of ethical problems.

This thesis deals with the ethical standards that should be comply by Czech employers in the context of third country nationals' employment. The theoretical part is focused on labor migration and on the process of third country nationals' employment in the Czech Republic. It also refers to the main points of business ethics within the relationship between employer and employees. The practical part of thesis contains a general summary of current ethical rules that should be respected by employers. In the next section there is, in specific cases described the current state of ethical standards within the relationship between employers and interviewed employees, who belong to the third country nationals group.

Historiskt sett har flertalet skandaler uppmärksammats där revisorer har haft en beroendeställning till sina klienter. Trots att externa åtgärder i form av lagar och bestämmelser har tillkommit och utvecklats efter hand, tyder det återkommande problemet med oberoendet på att ytterligare åtgärder kan behövas. Vi har därför valt att se på problemet med revisorns oberoende genom att fokusera på revisions-byråernas interna åtgärder. Syftet med studien är att förstå hur ledande revisionsbyråer arbetar med etiska koder som ett styrverktyg för att säkerställa revisorns oberoende. För att förstå arbetet utforskas hur etiska koder implementeras i organisationerna och hur de används som ett styrverktyg i det dagliga arbetet.   Utifrån ett styrningsperspektiv har en kvalitativ fallstudie genomförts. Semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts som datainsamlingsmetod och sammanlagt har sex revisionsmedarbetare från två ledande revisionsbyråer intervjuats. Med en abduktiv forskningsansats har en teoretisk referensram legat som grund för studien samtidigt som analysen har tillåtit nya infallsvinklar.   Studiens slutsatser är att revisionsbyråerna arbetar med att föra in de externa reglerna i sina interna etikkoder och att etikkoderna implementeras i organisationerna genom styrsystemen kultur-, handlings- och personalstyrning. De etiska koderna implementeras i det dagliga arbetet och blir då en del av den organisatoriska kulturen, integreras i system och processer samt styr rekryteringsprocessen. Revisionsbyråerna säkerställer alltså revisorns oberoende genom att etikkoderna används som en del i styrsystemen. / Historically, a number of scandals have been noted where auditors have been dependent on their clients. Although external actions such as legislation and regulation have evolved over time, the recurring problem of independence indicates that further actions may be needed. We have therefore chosen to look at the problem by focusing on the internal actions of the audit firms. The purpose of the study is, therefore, to understand how leading audit firms work with ethical codes as a control tool to ensure the auditor independence. To be able to understand the work, we look at how ethical codes are implemented in organizations and how they are used in the daily work.   Based on a management control perspective, a qualitative case study has been executed. Semi-structured interviews have been used as a method to collect data. In total, six employees from two of the leading audit firms have been interviewed. With an abductive approach, the theoretical framework has been underlying, while the analysis still allowed new angles.   The conclusions of this study are that audit firms incorporate the external rules into their internal codes of ethics and that the codes are implemented in organizations through the management control systems culture, action and personnel control. The ethical codes are implemented in the daily work and become a part of the organizational culture, integrated into systems and processes and guide the recruitment process. Audit firms thereby ensure the auditor independence by using ethical codes as a part of the control systems.