How can individuals make a difference in leadership of Professional Societies?
- Stephen H. Unger, as an individual was mainly responsible for persuading IEEE to focus on supporting responsible engineers than punishing wrong doers. He was instrumental in IEEE presenting awards to…
How participation in Professional Societies will improve moral leadership?
Professional Societies - Promote continuing education for their members - Unify the profession, speak and act on behalf of them - Are a forum for communicating, organizing and mobilizing change within, a change…
Explain Moral Creativity.
Moral creativity is • Identifying most important values in particular situations • Focusing on them through effective communication within the group. • Deep commitments grounded in integrity to implement them. Creativity consists in…
‘Technologists were best qualified to govern because of their technical expertise’. Discuss in detail.
Mussolini and Hitler were great leaders, but not ‘Moral Leaders’, since their goals were not morally valuable. ‘An Utopian society shall be governed by a philosopher-king whose moral wisdom best…
What is leadership and who are moral leaders?
Leadership is ‘Successfully moving a group towards its common goal’. But Moral leaders are those who move the group successfully towards goals which do public good and not evils i.e.…
List the roles of engineers as ‘leaders’.
Engineers perform as Leaders in the roles of 1. Managers 2. Business Entrepreneurs 3. Consultants 4. Academics and 5. Govt officials.
What are the virtues of independent expert advisers?
Virtues of Independent Experts Honesty- avoiding deception, being candid in stating relevant facts and truthful in interpreting facts Competence- being well trained, adequately experienced in the relevant field and having relevant skills…
What are the normative models of Advisers? Briefly explain each of them.
Normative Models of Advisers Three types: Hired Guns Value Neutral Analysts Value Guided Analysts Hired Guns This is the most undesirable role that can be played…
What are the factors that influence Advisers?
Advisers are influenced by: Large amounts of money involved Direct and overt (obvious and unconcealed) pressure applied by pro or anti-people involved in that project Hope of additional work…
How should Engineer advisers act?
Advisers are to: Chart all realistic options Carefully assess each under different assumptions about future contingencies Act favorable to the client by basing their studies on particular…
