Michael D. Bayles | the Professional-Client Relationship

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Michael D. Bayles | The Professional-Client Relationship
Bayles presents a number of ethical models relevant to the professional-client relationship, based on the proportion of authority and responsibility expected from each: agency, contract, friendship, paternalism, and fiduciary. He concludes with support for a model that gives the most freedom and authority to clients, given their knowledge of the situation, a contract between equals whenever possible, and a paternalistic model only for cases in which a client may be incompetent
-In a contract model of the professional-client relationship,

• A) a mutual agreement is held between bargaining equals.
• B) a professional expert acts at the direction of the client.
• C) there is a bureaucratic employer-employee relationship.
• D) the client is incapable of giving informed consent.

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