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Ethics & Professional Standards in Mentoring Flashcards

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  1. A mentor is offered a significant gift by a grateful mentee after a promotion. According to professional standards, the mentor should:

    Answer: Decline the gift and explain the professional boundary it would cross

    Accepting gifts can create obligations and compromise objectivity, so professional standards generally require declining them.

  2. What is the primary purpose of a CPM's code of ethics?

    Answer: To establish consistent standards that protect mentees and uphold professional integrity

    A code of ethics sets standards that safeguard mentees and ensure mentors practice with integrity and accountability.

  3. A mentee asks their mentor to write a glowing performance review that exaggerates their achievements. The ethical mentor should:

    Answer: Decline and explain that honest, accurate assessments are a professional obligation

    Integrity requires mentors to provide honest assessments; falsifying documents violates professional and ethical standards.

  4. In which scenario is it ethically appropriate for a mentor to break confidentiality?

    Answer: When the mentor suspects the mentee is involved in illegal activity that harms others

    Confidentiality may be broken when there is imminent risk of harm or illegal activity affecting others, consistent with duty-to-warn principles.

  5. Professional self-disclosure in mentoring means that a mentor:

    Answer: Strategically shares relevant personal experience only when it serves the mentee's growth

    Purposeful self-disclosure is used intentionally and sparingly, only when it directly benefits the mentee.

  6. A mentor who consistently promotes their own business services to a mentee is engaging in:

    Answer: An ethical conflict of interest that exploits the mentoring relationship

    Using the mentoring relationship to solicit business exploits the power imbalance and constitutes an unethical conflict of interest.

  7. Which of the following best reflects the principle of non-maleficence in mentoring?

    Answer: Avoiding actions that could cause harm to the mentee

    Non-maleficence means 'do no harm' and requires mentors to avoid actions, advice, or relationships that could hurt the mentee.