II. Ethics Flashcards
How can we define a professional’s best solution?
Has to be both technically correct and ethically right.
Where can a professional find a guideline for ethical behaviour?
Their association’s (APEGA) Code of Ethics.
What are three ways a professional can be exposed to legal consequences?
- Criminal
- Civil Liability
- Disciplinary proceeding from association
What are 6 steps on how to approach an ethical issue at work?
- Recognize the problem
- Clearly define the problem/any constraints
- Generate different solutions or methods to resolve the problem
- Evaluate pros/cons of each solution
- Choose best solution
- Implement best solution
What is the Utilitarianism approach to Ethics? Whose is it?
John Stuart Mill.
Action is correct if it produces greatest benefit for the greatest number of people.
What is the Duty approach to Ethics? Whose is it?
Immanuel Kant.
Action is correct if it follows a course of action that would be accepted as a universal principle for everyone to follow (more extreme black/white).
What is the Human Rights approach to Ethics? Whose is it?
John Locke.
Everyone has a right to life, health, liberty and possessions and the product of their work.
What is the Virtue approach to Ethics? Whose is it?
Aristotle.
Happiness is achieved by developing virtues or qualities of character, through deduction and reason.
What is the purpose of an association’s code of ethics?
Provide clear guidelines on what a professional should do and how they should behave.
Is a code of ethics breach considered professional misconduct?
Yes, in Alberta it is. Not necessarily in other provinces/territories.
What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement?
Plagiarism is passing off the written work of someone else as your own.
Copyright infringement is using someone else’s work for commercial purposes without their permission.
Give an example of maintaining professional responsibility.
Denying work given to you by an employer that you deem outside your level of competence.
What is Aristotle’s “golden mean” in the context of professional ethics in a foreign country? When would this be applied?
Middle ground to the low standards of a developing country and the high standards in Canada.
Could be applied if applying Canada’s ethical standards meant the project would not get done in a foreign country. Maybe you gotta bribe somebody if it benefits everybody ¯_(ツ)_/¯
