During the course of our lives we are faced with difficult ethical decisions in our personal
and business lives. It is important that we have a set of moral principles to which we
subscribe to give us a basis for making those decisions. Ethical decisions are based on
our value system. “In an ethical sense, a value is something which is worthy of esteem
for its own sake, or something which has intrinsic worth” (Small & Dickie, 1999). Those
moral principles and values can then be developed into a personal code of ethics. In
this paper, I will explore my values and the moral principles to which I subscribe and
using normative and justice theory, I will develop my personal code of ethics.