Workplace Responsibilities and Rights Flashcards
is the duty to keep secret all information deemed desirable to keep secret.
duty of confidentiality
literally means “available only on the basis of special privilege,” such as the privilege accorded an employee working on a special assignment.
Privileged Information
is information that a company owns or is the proprietor of, and hence is a term carefully
defined by property law.
Proprietary information
A rough synonym for “proprietary information” is …
trade secret
can be virtually any type of information that has not become public, which an employer has taken steps to keep secret, and which is thereby given limited legal protection in common law (law generated by previous court rulings) that forbids employees from divulging it.
Trade Secret
legally protect specific products from being manufactured and sold by competitors without the express permission of the owner.
Patents
an unknown design or process can be traced out by analyzing the final product.
reverse engineering
to respect the autonomy (freedom, self-determination) of individuals and corporations and to recognize their legitimate control over some private information concerning themselves
Justification
is a situation in which a person has a private or personal interest sufficient to appear to influence the objective exercise of his or her official duties
conflict of interest
conflicts of interest and conflicting interests
Dilemma
is a substantial amount of money or goods offered beyond a stated business contract with the aim of winning an advantage in gaining or keeping the contract and where the advantage is unfair or otherwise unethical.
bribe
small gratuities offered in the normal conduct of business.
Gifts
Prearranged payments made by contractors to companies or their representatives in exchange for contracts actually granted
kickbacks
An Employee while working in his company, if supports another company, during his leisure time to earn more or for some other career aspects, can be understood as committing an immoral act. Such an act is called…
Moonlighting
might concern one’s own company or another company with which one does business.
Insider information
occur when employees have interests that if pursued can keep them from meeting their obligations to serve the interests of the employer or client for whom they work.
Employee conflicts of interest
What motivates people?
Ego and Money
is a working environment that is conducive to morally responsible conduct
Ethical Corporate Climate
Loyalty to an employer can mean two things:
Agency-loyalty
Attitude-loyalty
is entirely a matter of actions, such as doing one’s job and not stealing from one’s employer, regardless of the motives for it.
Agency-Loyalty
has as much to do with attitudes, emotions, and a sense of personal identity as it does with actions.
Attitude-loyalty
is a kind of connectedness grounded in respect for professional expertise and in a commitment to the goals and values of the profession
Collegiality
is a virtue defining the teamwork essential for pursuing shared goods.
Collegiality
The central elements of collegiality are:
respect for colleagues
commitment
connectedness
valuing their professional expertise and their devotion to the social goods promoted by the profession;
respect for colleagues
in the sense of sharing a devotion to the moral ideals inherent in one’s profession
commitment
awareness of participating in cooperative projects based on shared commitments and mutual support.
connectedness
Their duties include planning, designing, and overseeing projects, as well as managing finances and supervising one or more engineering teams.
Manager
performs individual works or tasks based on their assigned job responsibilities.
Engineers
is the moral right to exercise professional judgment in pursuing professional responsibilities.
Right of Professional Conscience
is the right to refuse to engage in unethical behavior and to refuse to do so solely because one views it as unethical.
right of conscientious refusal
This is a kind of second-order right
right of conscientious refusal
Part of this involves fair monetary remuneration, and part nonmonetary forms of recognition.
RIGHT OF RECOGNITION
are any rights, moral or legal, that involve the status of being an employee.
Employee rights
He refers to employee rights as the “black hole in American rights.”
David Ewing
right to pursue outside activities can be thought of as a right to personal privacy in the sense that it means the right to have a private life off the job.
PRIVACY RIGHTS
The unwanted imposition of sexual requirements in the context of a relationship of unequal power.
Sexual harassment
Two main forms of Sexual Harassment:
quid pro quo
hostile work environment
Includes cases where supervisors require sexual favors as a condition for some employment benefit (a job, promotion, or raise)
quid pro quo
is any sexually oriented aspect of the workplace that threatens employees’ rights to equal opportunity.
Hostile work Environment
is giving a preference or advantage to a member of a group that in the past was denied equal treatment, in particular, women and minorities.
Affirmative action
nothing is more demeaning than to be discounted because of one’s sex, race, skin color, age, or political or religious outlook.
nondiscrimination
