This CoP has produced a written code of ethics, based on virtues of honesty, courtesy, commitment, sharing, active participation and aiming towards achieving excellence.
The importance here is the governance- a formal process put to majority rule by the CoP and guidelines for response, such as temporary suspension of membership or removal from the CoP.
The code includes
professionalism and faithful agent for all stakeholders. Each member of a CoP is there by the very fact that they have expertise in a specific area and professional behaviour is a code of behaviour within itself. This part of the code is more action oriented.
credit and integrity to the CoP This relates to internal consistency.
Not exert undue influence due to payments, or publicly criticise a member or process of CoP. At one level this relates to outside influences in and out of the CoP
Work to strengthen personal and CoP knowledge and expertise. This is fundamentally important to stop stagnation or groupthink.
Undertake only those projects that one is qualified or experienced to do. Protection and security for the CoP and the individual
Give appropriate credit where due to others Mutual support and interdependence is vital to a CoP and positive reinforcement is an important motivational agent as most members of a CoP are internally motivated. This also protects intellectual property
Recognize the proprietary, privacy, legal, and ethical interests and rights of others- This requires moral control of the social dilemma- self versus Other.
This code was created by the CoP I understand so it is a mutually acceptable code but it is based on logical thought and behaviour. It does not address emotional , caring or cultural issues specifically. There is no mention of diversity or respect for the social/emotional respect of Other. I suspect that it assumes this aspect as a normal component of human interaction.
anon, Extension. (2007). Map@syst Code of Ethics [Electronic Version]. Retrieved 20/12/2007 from http://collaborate.extension.org/wiki/Map@syst_Code_of_Ethics.
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Hi Joyce
Thanks for all this fantastic research into codes of ethics for CoPs and finding examples from such an eclectic range of disciplines! I'm just curious as to your own views though - in an earlier posting you suggest that you are in favour of a non-code. I don't think you're advocating the absence of a written code of ethics for a CoP but then, I might have got the wrong end of the stick! Could you elaborate?
Hi Gabi
see my later posts re- non code, narrative approach using feminisms philosophy
Joyce
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