UNIT - IV.  In practice engineers’ Responsibilities include much more than preventing and responding to accidents. In fact, during professional career.

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UNIT - IV

 In practice engineers’ Responsibilities include much more than preventing and responding to accidents. In fact, during professional career of an engineer there are many responsibilities and rights. Responsibilities include both  Internal – responsibilities to employers and  External – responsibilities to the outside world RESPONSIBILITIES

 In today’s competitive world, the success of any organization relies on its team-play. Working effectively as an engineer for a project requires the ethics of team-play. Team-play involves virtues of: 1. Collegiality 2. Loyalty 3. Respect for authority and 4. Collective Bargaining. INTERNAL RESPONSIBILITIES of ENGINEERS (Responsibilities to employers)

 Craig lhara defines collegiality as “a kind of connectedness grounded in respect for professional expertise and in a commitment to the goals and values of he profession”. It is the tendency to support and cooperate with the colleagues. Elements of collegiality 1. Respect to the ideas and work of others: This results in support and cooperation with one’s colleagues. One gets back the support and cooperation in return, and this is mutually beneficial. 2. Commitment to moral principles: Commitment is towards moral decisions, actions, goals of the organization and values of the profession. COLLEGIALITY

 3. Connectedness: It means the shared commitment and mutual understanding. It ensures the absence of egoism and paves way for progress for both. Generally collegiality should be encouraged among engineers because a.It is an influential value to promote the aims of professions. Therefore it strengthens an engineer’s motivation to live up to professional standards. b.It is more valuable as many individuals jointly working for the goodness of the public and society. Negative Aspects of Collegiality  It may be misused or distorted.  It may degenerate more groups of self-interest, rather than groups of shared devotion to the public good.  It may focus on corporate goal of maximizing profit at the expense of the public good.

 It is the quality of being true and faithful in one’s support. It is more a function of attitudes, emotions and a sense of identity. Two senses of Loyalty 1.Agency loyalty and 2.Identification loyalty (Attitude loyalty) LOYALTY

 AGENCY LOYALTY It is an obligation to fulfill his/her contractual duties to the employer. The duties are specific actions one is assigned, and in general cooperating with others in the organization. It consists of several obligations to employers. But, for the engineers, the paramount obligation is still “the safety, health, and welfare of the public”. IDENTIFICATION LOYALTY In contrast to agency loyalty, identification loyalty is much concerned with attitudes, emotions and a sense of personal identity as it does with actions. This is more a virtue than an obligation. It is all right when the organization work for productivity or development of community. Working together in falsification of records or serious harm to the public, does not merit loyalty

 Authority can be defined as the legal right to command action by others and to enforce compliance. The authority fixes the personal responsibility and accountability uniquely on each person. This is necessary to ensure progress in action. INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY The characteristics features of institutional authority are that they allocate money and other resources and have liberty in execution. It is the right given to the employees to exercise power, to complete the task and force them to achieve their goals. RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY

 It is (a) the possession of special knowledge, skills and competence to perform a job thoroughly, (b) The advice on jobs, and (c) Is a staff function. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING International Labor Organization has defined collective bargaining as “negotiation about working conditions and terms of employment between an employer and one or more representative employee’s with a view to reaching agreement” PROCESS OF COLLECIVE BARGAINING 1.Presenting the character of demands by the union on behalf of the constituent elements. 2.Negotiations at the bargaining table 3.Reaching an agreement EXPERT AUTHORITY (or) AUTHORITY OF LEADERSHIP

 Arguments over Unions There are two arguments in favor of and against unions. In favor of unions It  plays a vital role in achieving high salaries and improved standard of living of employees.  Gives employees a greater sense of participation in organization decision making.  Can act as counterforce to any radical political movements that exploit the employees. Against unions It  Shatter the economy of a country by placing distorting influences on efficient uses of labour.  Remove negotiation between employers and employees.

 The responsibilities to the outside world include: 1.Confidentiality 2.Conflict of Interest and 3.Occupational crimes. CONFIDENTIALITY It is widely accepted that the engineers have an obligation to keep certain information of the employer/client secret or confidential. In the same way, engineers have an obligation to keep proprietary information of their employer/client confidential. EXTERNAL RESPONSIBILITIES (Responsibilities to the outside world)

 Confidential information is information deemed desirable to keep secret. Terms related to confidential information. 1.Privileged information – information available to an employee who is working on a special assignment. 2.Proprietary information – PROPERTY or OWNERSHIP - a new knowledge established within the organization that can be legally protected from use by others 3.Trade secrets – these are given limited legal protection against employee or contractor abuse. 4.Patents – legally protect specific products from being manufactured and sold by competitors.

 Types of information should be kept confidential are: Information about the unreleased products. Test results and data about the products Design or formulas for products. Data about technical processes. Organization of plant facilities. Business information Justification and limits of confidentiality o FIRST LEVEL: It focuses on 3 moral considerations. a.Respect for Autonomy – self determination of individuals and companies in order to recognize their legitimate control over some information.

 c. Respect for Public well-being – when companies maintain some confidentiality concerning their products. o SECOND LEVEL: a.Justification by Right Ethicists – justify employees’ obligations of confidentiality by appealing to basic human rights b.Justification by Duty Ethicists – insist on the basic duties of both employers and employees to maintain the trust and to commit themselves to an employment agreement they have made. c.Justification by Utilitarians View by rule- Utilitarians – rules governing confidentiality as justified to the extent that such rules protect the most good for the greatest number of people. b. Respect for promises – signing contracts

 View of act-utilitarians – focus on each situation when an employer decides on some information to be considered as confidential information. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST – an individual has two or more desires that all interests cannot be satisfied given the circumstances. Professional conflicts of Interest are situations where professionals have an interest, if pursued, could keep them from meeting one of their obligations to their employers. Types of Conflicts of Interest 1.Actual Conflicts of Interest – loss of objectivity in decision- making and inability to faithfully discharge professional duties to employer.

 2. Potential conflicts of interest – may corrupt professional judgment in the future, if not in the present. 3. Apparent conflicts of interest – there are situations in which there is the appearance of a conflict of interest. Occupational Crime  Occupational crimes are illegal acts made possible through one’s lawful employment.  It is the secretive violation of laws regulating work activities.  When committed by office workers or professionals, occupational crime is called ‘white collar crime’.  These crimes are motivated by personal greed, corporate ambition, misguided company loyalty etc.  These crimes impinge on various aspects such as professionalism, loyalty, conflicts of interest and confidentiality.

 Examples of occupational crimes:  Price Fixing  Endangering Lives &  Industrial espionage(spying) Price Fixing : While fixing price for a product/service, sometimes all competitors come together and jointly set the prices to be charged. These are called as “Pricing Cartels”. In order to avoid these crimes laws are enforced which forbids companies from jointly fixing prices.

 Case Illustration: In 1983,in American state of Washington, six electrical contractors along with eight company presidents and vice presidents were indicted on charges of bids for building public power plants.  Laws are enforced which forbids companies from jointly fixing prices. Endangering Lives : Workers are employed without disclosing the effects of the harmful health effects and safety hazards. Due to this, workers are exposed to serious health problems.

 Case Illustration: Manville Corporation, the largest producer of asbestos in U.S, knew that asbestos dust was harmful for their employees health. It could cause a lung disease named “Asbestosis” and an incurable cancer named “Mesothelioma”. The company kept this as secret from the employees and the public. During , over 27 million workers were exposed to asbestos and more than 10,000 workers have died.

 Industrial Espionage : Espionage means Spying. It refers to secret gathering of information in order to influence relationships between two entities. Acquisition of other’s secret to one’s advantage is Espionage. The vital information are secretly gathered/theft through espionage agents called spies. The information may be intellectual properties such as designs, prototypes, formulae, software codes, passwords, manufacturing process, marketing plans, supplier/contractor details etc.