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Professional ethics enables the professional to discharge his duties of the profession while simultaneously participating in the larger order. “Therefore it is expected from a competent professional to carry out one’s profession with right understanding, dexterity and commitment so that the effort is conducive to human welfare, i.e. conducive to the happiness and prosperity of all and also to the enrichment of rest of nature.” The various types of challenges facing the contemporary society show that the professionals are lacking in professional ethics. The result is (http://www.jeevanvidya.info/TopicsOfStudy.html) :

Human suffering
Threat to the survival of the earth’s eco-system
Insecurity among different sects and creeds - from each other as well as from within

Box 38.1: Need for Right Understanding

To ensure happiness and prosperity and their continuity to all human beings, the transition to human consciousness is essential. This requires a dedicated effort to implement at a mass scale, the humanistic education focusing on right understanding. It can be initiated by introduction of appropriate value education inputs in the present curricula. The urgency of this task has to be adequately realized and accordingly efforts are to be made commensurate with the need. The evolution at the personal level has to be given priority. Further, efforts are also to be directed towards evolving the new models for the holistic alternative and appropriate policies, programs and systems. Let us join hands to make the cherished transition possible.
Source: Gaur et al., 2010, A Foundation Course in Human Values and Professional Ethics.