Professional Values and Ethics Integrity is defined as personal ethics and values of the individual involved in the decision-making process. This can create different paths to success, depending on the choices made toward each individual goal. Gandhi explains that looking into a person's thought process presents who he or she is in the present and future. He is the perfect example on ethics and values because of the way he set his goals and how he implemented to obtain his goals. Using peaceful and non-violent resistance to battle the British policies influenced other to follow his ideas, and this drove the British out of India. Later people were able to use this idea to help persuade the United States government to change the civil rights policy. Martin Luther King Junior used the same type of ideas that worked for Gandhi to help gain support to change certain laws during the 1960's (Prabhu, 2001). Ethics and values are greatly influenced by what goals and how individuals develop over time into a success. Values are what individuals cherish and work for to meet their goals in life. Values are also defined as relative worth, merit, and of most importance to that person. Values could also be described as moral principle and beliefs of a person.
Ethics is derived from the Greek word ethikos, which means customs or character of a person. Ethics involves defending, developing, and recommending, the differences between right or wrong. Ethics can be addressed by asking themselves, how they should live their life or what type of person they will strive to be in their life. Ethics could also be described as what values are going to be important to me. Professional Integrity, Academic Integrity, and Personal Values are only three of many sources of professional values and ethics. In an article written by Malham W. Wakin, Airpower Journal, Professional