CODE OF ETHICS OF ENGINEERING

Stakeholders and stakeholders management

Stakeholders : an individual,
instruction ,or community that
has a stake in the operations of
an organization and in how it
does a business.
What is professional ethics?

 Ethics refers to the study of morality and the morals choices that we all have
to make in our lives.

 Professional ethics Formal standard or code that guides a person in work

activities and decision making.

Engineering has a direct and vital impact on the quality of the life for all people.
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Code of Ethics for Engineers

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 Building a positive ethical climate.

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Ethical Decision-Making process:
1)Define the problem.
What are the technical goals? Factors? Ethical dilemmas?

2)Define stakeholders.
Who is affected? Major/ average/ minor? What is their interest?

3)Research the problem.

Engineering standard, including safety and environment,
ethical standards.

4)Explore possible solutions.

Effect on stakeholders, compare against ethical standards.

5)Finalize your decision.

Review impacts on all stakeholders.
Ethical issues in management:

- ethics issues: an identifiable problem situation ,or opportunity

that requires a person to choose from among several actions that
may be evaluated as right or wrong , ethical or unethical.

- business ethics : accepted principle of right or wrong

governing the conduct of businesspeople.

- ethical dilemmas : situation in which there is no agreement over

exact accepted principle of right and wrong.
Ethical issues in management:
Self
Self –dealing
–dealing self
self dealing
dealing

Information manipulation Information manipulation

Anticompetitive behavior Anticompetitive behavior

Opportunistic exploitation

Substandard
Substandard working
working condition
condition Substandard
Substandard
working
working condition
condition
Environmental
Environmental degradation
degradation Environmental
Environmental
degradation
degradation
The roots of unethical behavior.

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Unethical Immoral
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Organization
Culture
Culture

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unethical
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behavior

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Failure to
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consider
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Employees Unrealistic ethical issues
Employees
with poor Unrealistic
with poor performance
personal performance
personal
ethics goals
ethics goals
Social responsibility

 A sense of obligation on the part of managers to

build certain social criteria into their decision
making.