Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Discipline Dealing With What Is Good and Bad and With Moral Duty and Obligation
The Discipline Dealing With What Is Good and Bad and With Moral Duty and Obligation
Personal Ethics
“ D i s c r e t i o n”
“It is the ability to make
decisions autonomously”
PROFESSIONAL?!!
• Professional is one who has
sophisticated skills that are not capable
of mechanization
• Atheletes are termed as “Professionals”
Carpentry - Not a Professional Job
( Reason out why ? )
Medical - a profession
Law - a profession
Has a society / involve public good
Hence, it is a profession
ENGINEERING–
A PROFESSION?!
• Requires extensive & sophisticated
skills
• Involves judgment
• Utilizes available resources to
attain the objective
• Needs to keep the information
confidential
• Concern for public safety /
welfare
• Calls for extensive formal training
• Design vary from product to
product
• Each discipline has a professional
society
Meets all Definition of a
Profession. Hence Y E S
CORE QUALITIES OF PROFESSIONAL
PRACTITIONERS
1) I n t e g r i t y
- Openness & Honesty both with
themselves & others
2) I n d e p e n d e n c e
- to be free of Secondary Interests
with others parties
3) I m p a r t i a l i t y
- to be free of bias & unbalanced
interests
4) Responsibility
- Recognition & Acceptance of
Personal Commitment
5) Competence
- a thorough knowledge of work
6) Discretion
- Care with communications,
- Trustworthiness
ROLE OF ENGINEER IN A SOCIETY
• Saviour- Key player in the creation of
society
• Guardian – ensuring best interests of
society
• Bureaucratic Servant : Servant to managers
Makes Directives to Achievements
• Social Servant
Obedient Social Servant to Others
• Game Player : Plays political & economic
games with Institutions / Organizations
successfully
PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS – R O L E
• Enable Professional Development of Skills
Moral Awareness, Responsibility etc
• Provide support & opportunity to work
through decision making & any conflict
of interest
• Regulate the practice of Individual
Professional
• Play a major role in communicating with
public
• Act as a learned society contributing to
the advancement of Science & Technology
SOCIAL ATTITUDES, BELIEFS & VALUES
• Managers of various Enterprises have been
criticised for not being responsive to
social attitudes, beliefs etc.
AGAINST
• Primary task to maximize profit
( Social involvement might reduce
economic efficiency )
• Social involvement can create Excessive
cost to the enterprise
• Business has power. Additional Social
involvement shall further increase it
• Business skills may not be pertinent
to social problems
• Lack of accountability of business to
society
• No complete support for involvements
in social actions
• Disagreements among groups can
cause friction
INSTITUTIONALIZING ETHICS
• Establishing an appropriate
company policy or a code of
ethics
b) Individual Preparation
a) Individual Actions
: Well Defined
Ethical - Unethical
: Not Defined