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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