Professional Ethics & Human Values

What are the different views on ‘leadership in communities’?

• One view is that no one is strictly obligated to participate in public decision making. It may be a moral…

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MOTIVES FOR PROFESSIONALISM

•    A desire for interesting and challenging work and the pleasure in the act of changing the world. •    The  joy  of  creative  efforts.  Where  a  scientist’s  interest  is  in  discovering  new technology, engineers interest is derived from creatively solving practical problems. •    The engineer shares the scientist’s job in understanding the laws and riddles of the universe. •    The sheer magnitude of the nature – oceans, rivers, mountains and prairies – leads engineers to build engineering marvels like ships, bridges, tunnels, etc., which appeal to human passion. •    The  pleasure  of  being  in the  presence  of  machines  generating  a comforting  and absorbing sense of a manageable, controlled and ordered world. •   Strong sense of helping, of directing efforts towards easing the lot of one’s fellows. The main  pleasure  of the engineer  will always  be  to  contribute  to  the  well-being  of his fellow-men.

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Employees Endangering Lives of Employees

Employers indulge  in  exposing  their  employees  to  safety hazards.  They escape criminal action against them, by paying nominal compensations  even if their crimes are proved  in court. And even this happens only when the victim sues company for damages under civil law.

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