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Ethical issues in surveying firms does size matter? [electronic resource]

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Reading College of Estate Management 2010ISBN:
  • 9781904388883
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 174.30994 22
Online resources: Summary: Compares different approaches to professional ethics between small (less than six chartered surveyors)and large surveying firms (more than 10 chartered surveyors). Examines how firms promote ethical behaviour, deal with ethical dilemmas faced by their staff and ensure compliance with RICS Professional Rules of Conduct. Concludes that a firm's ethical culture is defined by the attitudes, norms and values of those at managerial level rather than by size. Surveyors? ethics relate to age and experience and are affected by the culture of the employing firm, but not size. Stresses the importance of ethics throughout a surveyor's professional career. Although individuals and firms do things slightly differently, all chartered surveyors should engage in meeting an agreed set of professional standards.
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Compares different approaches to professional ethics between small (less than six chartered surveyors)and large surveying firms (more than 10 chartered surveyors). Examines how firms promote ethical behaviour, deal with ethical dilemmas faced by their staff and ensure compliance with RICS Professional Rules of Conduct. Concludes that a firm's ethical culture is defined by the attitudes, norms and values of those at managerial level rather than by size. Surveyors? ethics relate to age and experience and are affected by the culture of the employing firm, but not size. Stresses the importance of ethics throughout a surveyor's professional career. Although individuals and firms do things slightly differently, all chartered surveyors should engage in meeting an agreed set of professional standards.