TRADE MARK
Trade Mark is a name or symbol adopted for identifying goods Public can identify from the Trade Mark from whom the product is emanating Trade Marks protection is…
DESIGN
Meant for beautifying an industrial product to attract the consumer public Shaping, Configuration or Ornamentation of a vendible Industrial product Exclusive ‘Design Rights’ to the originator for a…
PATENT
1. Derived from the Latin word ‘LITTERAE PATENTES’ which means ‘Open Letters’ or ‘Open Documents’ to confer rights and privileges. 2. A contract between an Inventor and the Government 3. An exclusive privilege…
Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property is a product of the human intellect that has commercial value Many of the rights of the ownership common to real and personal property are also common to…
Discrimination
- Discrimination generally means preference on the grounds of sex, race, skin color, age or religious outlook. - In everyday speech, it has come to mean morally unjustified treatment of people on arbitrary or irrelevant grounds. - Therefore to call something ‘Discrimination” is to condemn it. - But when the question of justification arises, we will call it ‘Preferential Treatment’.
Employee Rights
Employee rights are any rights, moral or legal, that involve the status of being an employee. Employee rights are: There should be no discrimination against an employee for criticizing ethical,…
Prevention of Whistle Blowing
The following actions will prevent/reduce whistle blowing: 1. Giving direct access to higher levels of management by announcing ‘open door’ policies with guarantee that there won’t be retaliation. Instead such employees should be rewarded for fostering ethical behavior in the company. 2. This gives greater freedom and promotes open communication within the organization. 3. Creation of an Ethics Review Committee with freedom to investigate complaints and make independent recommendations to top management. 4. Top priority should be given to promote ethical conduct in the organization by top management. 5. Engineers should be allowed to discuss in confidence, their moral concerns with the ethics committee of their professional societies. 6. When there are differences on ethical issues between engineers and management, ethics committee members of the professional societies should be allowed to enter into these discussions. 7. Changes and updations in law must be explored by engineers, organizations, professional societies and government organizations on a continuous basis.
Conditions to be satisfied before Whistle Blowing
Richard T. De George suggests the following: 1. The harm that will be done by the product to the public is serious and considerable. 2. The individual makes his/her concern known to his/her superiors 3. If one does not…
Procedures to be followed before Whistle Blowing
• Except for extreme emergencies, always try working through normal organizational channels. • Be prompt in expressing objections. • Proceed in a tactful manner with due consideration to the feelings of others involved.…
Types of Whistle Blowing
External Whistle blowing: The act of passing on information outside the organization. Internal Whistle blowing: The act of passing on information to someone within the organization but outside the approved channels. Either type is likely to be considered as disloyalty, but the second one is often seen as less serious than the latter. From corporations’ point of view both are serious because it leads to distrust, disharmony, and inability of the employees to work together. Open Whistle blowing: Individuals openly revealing their identity as they convey the information. Anonymous Whistle blowing: Individual conveying the information conceals his/her identity.
