Description In this assignment, you'll be applying your learning about ethics and ethical decision-making in preparing a self-reflection on your journey and development, as you've been doing when engaging with the materials and responding to the calls to action. Coming to an understanding of your own ethical approach and how others have theorized ethics is important for all professionals.

Write your reflection as an aspiring financial professional. That means your word choice, the terminology you use, your spelling and punctuation, and the structure of your reflection must be appropriate for a professional, and well-informed, audience. This is important to keep in mind as you draft, edit, and proofread your reflection.

Specific Requirements

This assessment item is an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal and professional development in ethical awareness and ethical decision making. In this assessment you are encouraged to draw upon your experiences in this unit, and in your general ethical development, as both an individual and as a future financial professional.

In essence, you are to write a self-reflection on your ethics and your ethical development. In preparing this self-reflection you must do the following:

1. Provide an initial overview of your ethical perspective when you completed the Ethical Lens Inventory: reflect on what was new to you about the results, and what was already familiar to you

2. Throughout the unit you had the opportunity to apply ethical perspectives and theories in seminars and assessment tasks. With respect to applying your ethical perspective and views to resolve an ethical dilemma: reflect on your strengths and blind spots. Provide an example from your personal experience and one work/study example

3. Reflect on what you have learned in this unit: what skills and values were you able to develop, and what skills and values you need to further develop as a future professional

In general, you will need to demonstrate a genuine reflection of your ethical development and avoid making generic statements on ethical theories, values, and principles. A good reflection will also incorporate experiences from prior unit activities and assessment tasks when providing a reflection on your ethical development. Importantly, you need to apply your understanding of the ethical theories and principles learnt to date.