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Problems with ethics codes in professions:

• Are we infantilizing professionals by requiring them to conform to a code of ethics?
• Are we defining ethics in terms of rationality, rather than emotion, is ethics a matter of ‘being with’ people? Altruistic nature of professions as linked to the public good, see report ‘In Professions We Trust’ co-authored by Elena Antonacopoulou, Liverpool University Management School https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/virtuous-practice-professions/ Millennials and ethics, do they have a different approach to work? Start-up company with 18 staff, 13 nationalities, ‘working for Q’, a cryptocurrency, why do they do this? Concerned with organisational values, independent contracting and avoiding costs Commitment to profession often stronger than commitment to organisation, but this is less acceptable now as a discourse How can professions protect their trustworthiness?

What brought 18 people to work on a project (not only Millennials) postponing monetizing of the Q coins received as remuneration is called passion. Passion for the challenge, passion to learn through practice, passion to be part of a project with a deep meaning capable of changing the status quo. Passion drives to test uncharted avenues. Is not necessarily altrusitic nevertheless- because it naturally requires collaboration with others - it often stimulates accountability and responsibility and a personal code of ethic that is not necessarily linked to the profession but can constitute a pre-requisite. As founder of a start up that owes the realization of its Alpha to the passion of its team members, I would say that commitment to organisation depends on their capability to attract people for the values they express and fight for and for the freedom they leave to people to reinvent themselves. ( Which probably means that organisations should reinvent themselves). Because trustworthiness of professions relies on how members practice their values ( ethics), I would suggest that in order to protect trustworthiness of professions in the future , tracking knowledge of professionals is good but cannot be dissociated from assessing the coherence of their values.