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Business and Professional Issues: Lecture 3: Being A Professional
Business and Professional Issues: Lecture 3: Being A Professional
Business and Professional Issues: Lecture 3: Being A Professional
Unit Structure
Starting up a computing company
The Computing Profession (Chap2)
Law and Government
Structure of organizations
Intellectual property rights
Data protection and privacy
Internet Issues
Computer misuse
REMINDER
Your Two Assignments
Where you should be up to by now
Definitions
http://www.psc.gov.au/what-is-a-profession
Professional Bodies
There are 4 main professional bodies for computing
British Computer Society (BCS)
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Professional Codes of
Conduct
A question of ethics
1. Public Interest
You shall:
a) have due regard for public health, privacy, security and wellbeing of others and the
environment.
b) have due regard for the legitimate rights of Third Parties*.
c) conduct your professional activities without discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual
orientation, marital status, nationality, colour, race, ethnic origin, religion, age or
disability, or of any other condition or requirement
d) promote equal access to the benefits of IT and seek to promote the inclusion of all
sectors in society wherever opportunities arise.
1.
to accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with the safety,
health, and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that
might endanger the public or the environment;
2.
to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and
to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist;
3.
to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on
available data;
4.
to reject bribery in all its forms;
5.
to improve the understanding of technology; its appropriate
application, and potential consequences;
6.
to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake
technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or
experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
7.
to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to
acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the
contributions of others;
8.
to treat fairly all persons and to not engage in acts of discrimination
based on race, religion, gender, disability, age, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or gender expression;
9.
to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by
false or malicious action;
10.
to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development
and to support them in following this code of ethics.
Rules of Conduct
Readers will note that a number of the rules are not listed below. Rule 1 sets the framework for
the other rules: rule 6 is about the member's obligation to promote the IET in a favourable
light: rule 15 is about members actively promoting public awareness of the engineering and
technology: and 17 is about not canvassing in relation to elections to Boards and Committees
of the IET.
2. Members shall keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date through planned professional
development and seek to broaden and deepen that knowledge throughout their working life.
Members shall also encourage persons working under their supervision to do the same.
Value:competence
3. Members shall not undertake professional tasks and responsibilities that they do not believe
themselves competent to discharge.
Values:competence,integrity
4. Members shall accept personal responsibility for all work done by them or under their
supervision or direction. Members shall also take all reasonable steps to ensure that persons
working under their authority are both suitably equipped and competent to carry out the tasks
assigned to them.
Values: integrity,competence
5. Members whose professional advice is not accepted shall take all reasonable steps:
(a) to ensure that the person overruling or neglecting that advice is aware of any danger or loss
which may ensue; and
(b) in appropriate cases, to inform that persons employers of the potential risks involved.
Values:health, safety and risk,honesty
7. Members shall not recklessly or maliciously injure or attempt to injure, whether directly or
indirectly, the professional reputation, prospects or business of any other person.
Value:integrity
8. Members shall at all times take all reasonable care to limit any danger of death, injury or ill
health to any person that may result from their work and the products of their work.
Value:health, safety and risk
9. Members shall take all reasonable steps to avoid waste of natural resources, damage to the
environment, and damage or destruction of man-made products. Lawful work undertaken by
members in connection with equipment intended for the defence of a nation will not infringe
this Rule or Rule 8.
Value:environmental sustainability
10. Members convicted of a criminal offence anywhere in the world are required to inform the
Institution promptly, and to provide such information concerning the conviction as the
Institution may require, but this rule does not apply to either a conviction for a motoring
offence for which no term of imprisonment (either immediate or suspended) is imposed or an
offence which is regarded as spent within the meaning of the UK Rehabilitation of Offenders
Act 1974 or equivalent legislation elsewhere.
Value:honesty
11. Members shall not use designatory letters to which they are not entitled. Neither shall they
use the IET logo, coat of arms, email alias service or the designatory letters to which they are
entitled to imply that they are acting on behalf of, or with the authority of, the Institution,
except when conducting Institution business in the capacity of an honorary officer.
Value:honesty
12. Members who are not registered through the Institution as a Chartered or
Incorporated Engineer or Engineering Technician shall not use their entitlement to the
suffix TMIET, MIET or FIET to imply that they are so registered.
Value:honesty
13. Members shall exemplify professional behaviour generally and specifically in their
relationships with the Institution, its employees and their fellow members.
Value:fairness
14. Members who are called upon to give an opinion in their professional capacity shall,
to the best of their ability, give an opinion that is objective and based upon the best
available knowledge and information.
Value:objectivity
16. Members shall not make any public statement in their professional capacity without
ensuring that:
(a) they are qualified to make such a statement and
(b) any association that they may have with any party who may benefit from the
statement are known to the person or persons to whom it is directed.
Values:honesty,competenceandobjectivity
18. Members shall inform their employer in writing of any conflict or potential conflict that
may exist or arise between their personal interests and the interests of their employer.
Values:integrity,honestyandobjectivity
19. Members shall not without proper authority disclose any confidential information
concerning the business of their employer or any past employer.
Value:confidentiality
20. Members shall not without their employers consent accept any payment or benefit in
money or moneys worth from any person other than their employer in connection with
professional services rendered to their employer. Neither shall they without such consent
receive directly or indirectly any such payment or benefit in respect of any article or
process used in or for the purpose of the work in respect of which they are employed.
Values:integrity,objectivityandhonesty
21. Members shall not offer improper inducement to secure work as independent
advisers or consultants, either directly or through an agent. Neither shall they improperly
pay any person, whether by commission or otherwise, for the introduction of such work.
Values:integrity,objectivityandhonesty
22. Members acting as independent advisers or consultants shall not be the medium of
payment made on their employers behalf unless so requested by their employer. Neither
shall they place contracts or orders in connection with work on which they are employed,
except with the authority of and on behalf of their employer.
Values:integrity,objectivityandhonesty
Codes of Conduct
BCS Code of Conduct
microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/i
eee
The BU Research
and Ethics Policy
Questionable practices
Involving people without their knowledge/consent
Coercing participation
Withholding information about the true nature of the
research
Inducing them to commit acts that diminish their selfesteem
Exposing people to physical or mental stress
Invasion of privacy
Unfair treatment or without respect
NO
NO
YES
YES
NO
NO
NO
Research in defensiveness.
You test to groups for IQ and tell one group
they got well over 100 and the other well
under 100 then you ask them questions to
see how defensive they are. You dont tell
them the results were made up.
Ethical or not Ethical?
NO
The Research
and Ethics
Checklist
Thank you
Dr Philip Davies
daviesp@Bournemouth.ac.uk
Room P317