lecture note etika kejuruteraan #5
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ENGINEERING ETHICS
RESPONSIBLE ENGINEER
Concept of Responsibility
- Responsibility is attributed to person in both law and morality
Responsibility can be categorized as follow:-
Intentionally causing harm
Negligently causing harm
Recklessly causing harm
Strict liability in law legalized monetary compensation or some kind of damage repair in some area of law.
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Responsibility Views
Minimalist
Resonable Care
Good works
Minimalist View
Do minimal responsibility or scope of work. Conform duty only up to the standard operating procedure and fullfil only the basic duties
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Disadvantage of Minimalist view:
1. Define responsibility in term of exclusivity (e.g. “it’s his job not mine”)
2. Linked with the idea of individual fault or blame
3. Avoidant of blame or staying out of trouble
4. Provide problem solving assistance when there is problem, not anticipating problem and provide preventive measures
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Reasonable Care
Move beyond minimalist view concern
More directly concerned with the risk of being harmed or trying to prevent them from getting harmed
Very close related to code of professional conduct no 1
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Good Works
Above and beyond the call of duty
example 1: A statistician agrees to help analyzing data fro the sake of safety of the public and said: “ Analyzing data just for money doesn’t mean anything to me. I want it to do some good”.
example 2: A design engineer works extra hours to check safety of window washing crane even though the design and the safety aspect of it is already very safe and said: “ I have to do the best I can and that’s usually inadequate”.
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Virtues For Engineers
Virtues for engineers besides honesty, fair-minded, reliable, integrity, go beyond basic duty, such as benevolence, perseverance, spiritedness, compassion, kindness and generosity are associated with the good works criteria which upgrade the level of quality of Good works category
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Impediments of Responsibility
Self Interests : egoism or self centered
Fear : fear making mistake, punishment
Self-Deception : intentionally avoid to know
Ignorance : unintentionally avoid to know
Egocentric Tendencies : a special form of ignorance, very narrow perpective
Microscospic vision – too focus until other perspective of responsibility is overlooked
Uncritical Acceptance of Authority- tend to agree with authority even though they are wrong
Group Thninking – tends to make the member of group feel invincible, better idea with more head, to maintain solidarity tend to practice uncritical thinking
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Symptoms of GroupThinking:- An illusion of invulnerability of the group to fail A strong “we Feeling” the view of outsiders as
adversaries or enemies and thus encourage shared stereotypes of others.
Rationalizations that tend to shift responsibility to others.
An illusion of morality that assumes the inherent morality of the group and thereby discourages careful examination of the moral implications of what the group is doing
A tendency of individual members towards self-censorship , resulting from a desire not to “rock-the-boat”
An illusion of unanimity, construing silence of group member as consent
Direct pressure to those disagree by the group leader Mind-guarding, protecting the group from dissenting
views by preventing their introduction to the outsiders who has co has contrary views.
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Bangunan berdinding kotak?
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Teka…Mana dulu siap, rumah atau tiang letrik?
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Group Works could also be cruel and devastating
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Didikan awal ke arah gangterism
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Malaysia negara ku bersih dan membangun…………uwekkkk
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Salah tafsir agama penyebab “extremism”
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Quiz 1
How many category of responsibility and why the highest level of responsibility is
lacking in an engineer
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Quiz 2
You are not satisfied as you are paid very low as a production engineer in a
factory. Is it wrong for you to adopt a minimalist view concept in order to suit
your salary with your scope of responsibility?
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Quiz 3
Group works is good to teach us how to work cooperatively in a team, but what is the effect of group thinking onto the
credibility of the decision made. Therefore is it good to work as a team?
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