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← Explore all topics1. Acting on professional commitments to the public is more effective to serve a company than just following company orders. 2. Loyalty to employers may not mean obeying one’s immediate supervisor. 3. Professional obligations to both an employer and to the public might strengthen rather than contradict each other.
Agency–Loyalty – Engineers are hired to do their duties. – Hence obligated to employers within proper limits Identification-Loyalty Obligatory on two conditions; 1. When some important goals are met by and through a group in which the engineers participate 2. When employees are treated fairly, receiving the share of benefits and burdens. But clearly, identification-loyalty is a virtue and not strictly an obligation.
Agency–Loyalty – Fulfill one’s contractual duties to an employer. – Duties are particular tasks for which one is paid – Co-operating with colleagues – Following legitimate authority within the organization. Identification-Loyalty: – It has to do with attitudes, emotions and a sense of personal identity. – Seeks to meet one’s moral duties with personal attachment and affirmation. – It is against detesting their employers and companies, and do work reluctantly and horribly (this is construed as disloyalty) This means – Avoid conflicts of interest, – Inform employers of any possible conflicts of interest, – Protect confidential information, – Be honest in making estimates, – Admit one’s errors, etc.
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• Individuals are ready to assume voluntary risks than involuntary risks. • The difficulty here is generally in assessing personal risks which are involuntary. • The problem of quantification of risk raises innumerable problems. • For example, how to assign a rupee value to one’s life. There is no over the counter trade in lives. • Even for a sale, it has to be clear under what conditions the sale is to take place. • If one buys a kg of rice it matters whether it is just one additional purchase one makes Regularly or it is the first rice purchase after quite sometime. • Even when compensations are made to people exposed to involuntary risk, the basis on which it is made or even the intensity of risk could be different for different people. • As of now, the one suggestion could be to employ an open procedure, overseen b y trained arbiters, in each case, where risk to individuals is to be studied and remedied.
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