The phrase "a mode of conduct" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particular way or manner in which someone behaves or acts in a specific situation.
Example: "The organization promotes a mode of conduct that emphasizes integrity and respect among its members."
Alternatives: "a manner of behavior" or "a way of acting".
We got here by subscribing to a mode of dishonest conduct we amicably call "political correctness".
Values are described as a belief that "a specific mode of conduct or end state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct " (page 399).
M. Rokeach defined the value concept as "an enduring belief that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state existence"[ 2].
Folkway, the learned behaviour, shared by a social group, that provides a traditional mode of conduct.
Rokeach (1973) defined a value as "an enduring belief or end-states of existence that a specific mode of conduct or end-state is personally preferable to its opposite" (Homer and Kahle 1988, p. 638).
Some, endorsing the "everybody deserves a second chance" mode of conduct, say give the man a break and leave him alone, while others fancy more the "once a woman-beater, always a woman-beater" philosophy.
Once people have learned how to achieve some purpose and entrenched that mode of conduct in a habit or skill, they no longer need to tend to what they are doing in achieving it.
On the other hand, the wide recognition that anyone concerned can have full access to the mode of conduct of a trial before, during, or after it is conducted will, we like to think, eventually lead to higher ethical standards.
Yet because it will be the general mode of conduct in society, we will end up receiving infinitely more than we could ever give to ourselves.
If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater, and give a tone to the national proceedings.
