1 - Enumeration & Fill in the Blanks Flashcards
2 Kinds of Rules of Conduct
- Directives
2. Social Policies
2 types of values
- Intrinsic
2. Instrumental
3 Schemes for Grounding the Evaluative Rules in a Moral System
- Religion
- Law
- Philosophical Ethics
5 Branches of Ethics
- Normative Ethics
- Meta-Ethics
- Applied Ethics
- Moral Ethics
- Descriptive Ethics
3Rs of business ethics
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Results
Respect includes behavior such as:
–Treating everyone with dignity and courtesy
–Using organizational resources appropriately and efficiently
–Protecting and improving work environment
– Being on time!
Responsibility includes behavior such as:
–Providing timely, high quality goods and services
–Working collaboratively and carrying one’s share of work load
–Meeting all performance expectations and adding value
Unethical Practices (9)
- Lies
- Tacit Lies
- False Promises
- Bribery
- Breach of Trust
- Behavior
- Productivity
- State of Mind
- Creativity
Rights
- The “status” of everyone on the job is the same.
- The right to decide how to lead your life
- The right to have your own values, beliefs, opinions, and emotions - and the right to respect yourself for them
- The right not to justify or explain your actions or feelings to others
- the right to take the time you need to formulate you ideas before expressing them
- The right to ask for information or help - without having negative feelings about your needs
- The right to change your mind and to make mistakes
- The right to like yourself even though you’re not perfect, and sometimes do less than you are capable of doing
- The right to have positive, satisfying relationships
- The right to change, enhance, or develop your life in any way you determine
- the right to disagree with any person, belief, idea or approach
3 Possible Response when your rights are violated (Response to Aggression)
- return aggression
- non assertion
- assertive behavior
Types of Tangible Assets
- cash
- bank balances
- computers & other machinery
- buildings
Types of Intangible Assets
–Reputation –Customers –Intellectual property –Computer source code –Design documents –Business ideas –Marketing strategies –Research break through
Code of Ethics
- integrity
- competence
- conflict of interest
- privacy
- unauthorized benefits
- theft & misappropriation
- no harassment
Model of a person
Action
Decision
Will - (Emotions, Mind)
4 Main Virtues
- prudence (mind)
- temperance (emotions)
- fortitude (emotions)
- justice (will)
Responsibility of Employers
- Collegiality
- Loyalty
- Respect for authority
- Confidentiality
- Avoid conflicts of interest
- Act as faithful agent
___ that when followed, __ __ such as __, good , ___, fairness, and/or kindness.
There is not one ___ set of standards that all ___ follow, but each company has the ___ to ___ the standards that are meaningful for their ___. Ethical standards are not always easily enforceable, as they are frequently vaguely defined and somewhat ___ to interpretation (“Men and women should be treated equally, “ __ “Treat the customer with respect and kindness.”). Others can be more specific, such as “Do not ___ the ___ private ___ with anyone outside of the company.”
Principles promote values trust behavior consistent companies right develop organization open open share customer's information
___ in ways ___ with what society and ___ typically think are good ___. Ethical behavior tends to be good for ___ and involves demonstrating respect for key ___ ___ that include honesty, fairness, equality, dignity, ___ and ___ ___
Acting consistent individuals values business moral principles diversity individual rights
A ___ or situation that requires a ___ or ____ to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as ___ (____) or wrong (unethical)
problem person organization right ethical
Engineers shall uphold and advance the integrity, honor, and dignity of the engineering profession by:
- using their knowledge and skill for the enhancement of the human race
- being honest and impartial and serving with fidelity to the public, their employers, and clients
- striving to increase the competence and prestige of the engineering profession.
- hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public in the performance of their duties
- perform service only in areas of their competence
- issue public statements only in an objective and truthful way
- act in professional matters for each employer or client as faithful agents or trustees, and shall avoid conflicts of interest
- build their professional reputations on the merits of their services
- act in such manner as to uphold and enhance the honor of the engineering profession
- continue their professional development throughout their careers, and shall provide opportunities for the professional development of those engineers under their supervision.
