plagiarism --mishandling others' work in progress

I have read my professional association’s code of ethics. There is one line prohibiting appropriation of others’ work from a position of authority. I think ethics is straightforward, but some will use covers to be unethical and others may not reflect on their behavior to the extent that they realize it is unethical. Yet others –as, I have witnessed– may observe from their role models unethical behavior and adopt it. I thought I would elaborate on that line about ethical use of others’ work.
1. If you get access to someone’s work in progress due to your role or position of authority, do not use the work beyond the purpose for which you were given access to the work. This means: you cannot circulate the work, discuss it with others, copy or paraphrase components into your work, or develop your current or future projects (or those of your advisees) building on insights you gained from that work. If you are influenced by someone’s work, and would like to integrate some insight into your own work, ask the person for permission to cite his/her work and give proper and fair (not tangent or in-passing) credit. Yes, conference papers, working papers, and personal communication can be cited—see your professional association’s publication manual for citation format. If the owner of the work does not give you permission to cite his/her work, do not integrate its components into yours. Examples of your roles and kind of work you might encounter that is covered:
- Advisor: advisee’s thesis, dissertation, course papers, other papers (even if they are completed and documented elsewhere—the person is probably trying to publish it in a real journal)
- Reviewer: paper submitted to a conference or journal for review
- Faculty/search committee: work samples submitted to search committee by a job candidate, or oral presentation given by a job candidate at interview (do not ask for the candidate’s slides before/after the presentation! You should make up your mind about the candidate’s quality of work during his/her presentation.)
- Faculty colleague/mentor/tenure committee/curriculum committee etc: papers in progress, syllabi in development or completed, narrative of research stream,
2. Never ask anyone to share with you (even verbally) any of his/her work that you do not need to fulfill your responsibility. Of course never force or manipulate (i.e. bully) someone to do so.
3. Never assume someone’s work or information (e.g. vita) is not private or confidential.

Obviously, this is work-in-progress, which I am trying to spell out. If we were at a faculty meeting, many a deadwood professor would insist that we exclude this or that statement because it limits their ability to appropriately evaluate/help/support junior faculty. However, I know that readers of this site will more likely in earnest help develop this statement, so that who knows perhaps one day, this will be circulated as (at least) informal rules of conduct in a department. Unlike other work-in-progress, please cite and distribute this freely.