Studies have shown that employers have traditionally agreed on the behaviors and attitudes they expect from employees and on the security and benefits that they are willing to provide in return. Various factors, including rapid technological advancement and increased foreign competition, have changed this. Today's workers generally have less job security than their predecessors. Furthermore, different employers have begun requiring different attitudes and behaviors from their employees. These changes have in turn made it necessary for vocational and career educators to revise their approach to preparing students to enter and function in the world of work. This revised approach, which has come to be known as vocational ethics, is intended to (1) provide students with a framework for recognizing and resolving internal and external ethical conflicts and (2) give students the opportunity to develop an enabling work ethic. Vocational ethics instruction is centered around two main topics: ethical reasoning skills and mediation skills (assertiveness, emphatic listening, principled negotiation, and risk taking). (MN)