| Abstrakt: |
Engineering leaders are enjoined to take the ethical high road—to establish and live by codes of ethics their professional colleagues can respect, endorse and follow. Responsibilities of top management to employees in an engineering firm are listed, as follows: getting exciting, challenging jobs; providing resources needed to do those jobs; giving engineers confidence in their futures in the firm; exploring new opportunities for work and growth; keeping the firm responsive, competitive, productive, and profitable; and, maintaining high standards for work and business practices. Adhering to high ethical standards is seen to be good for business. Furthermore, it can help improve the national climate by addressing the widespread mistrust in institutions, professions, government and people so characteristic of contemporary life. By their involvement on many levels of American life, engineers are well positioned to perceive and to attempt to remedy this erosion in values. The author presents four rules for ethical engineering practice. |
