Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

MORALITY, ETIQUETTE AND PROFESSIONAL CODES

It is also necessary to understand the differences between morality and etiquette, and morality and law. While morality is the moral code of an individual or of a society, etiquette is a set of rules for well-mannered behaviour. Etiquette is an unwritten code or rules of social or professional behaviour such as medical etiquette. Morality can be also differentiated from law which consists of statutes, regulations, common law and constitutional law. Morality is different from professional codes of ethics which are special rules governing the members of a profession, say of doctors, lawyers and so on. Morality is not necessarily based on religion as many people think. Although we draw our moral beliefs ...