MME30001 Engineering Management I Minor Activity Sheet 6 Name: Enoch Chemy Student ID: 101629600 Group: 64 Date: 28/08/2020 1. What is ethics and how is it formed? Moral, code of conduct, what is good and what is bad, personal beliefs. 2. Why should engineers know about ethics? Decisions with significant consequences building products, equipment, systems 3. What are the key areas (codes) in ethical engineering approach? · demonstrate integrity practice competently ·exercice leadership promote sustainability 4.What is an ethical dilemma? situations where making ethical decisions are complex/ difficult because of conflicting moral principles particularly when there are factors that encourage taking unethical choices 5. What are the basic views on ethics? C Utilitarian O lights view ofethics C Justice Integrated Social Contracts 6. What are the two opposing view of social responsibilities? Classical Socio-economic Description: · management's responsibility goes well beyond the making of profits. It also includes protecting and improving society's welfare. · management's responsibility is to maximise profits/ value to share holders Supporting arguments: · Public expectation Supporting arguments : Violation of profit maximisation . Dilution of purpose · Costs of being socially/ politically for business . Lacking of skills beyond. economies -lesser long-term profit - Ethical obligation · Public image . Better environment Discouragement of Further goverment regulation. Balance of responsibility and power ( et) Description: Shareholder interest-long-term - Possession of resources. Superiority of prevention overare). lack of accountability 7. How can an organisation be classified in terms of its social responsibility? Grenter Stagl: Owners and management Staper & Employees Hayes Continents in the specific environment stage 4 Broader socity Social responsibility Environment sensitivity High Case : legal approach ( light green) Market approach stakeholder approach Activist Natalie Hunter, General Manager of New Product Development for Mainline Trucking, has some decisions to make. The company, which manufactures long-haul trucking platforms and accessories, is trying to decide if it should proceed in designing a new accessory which increases the efficiency of truck loading and unloading. She knows the new accessory fits well with the corporate strategy, will position them competitively within the industry and she feels she has done a good job of selling it to other management. With her engineering training and experience. She also knows the product is reasonably easy to lay-out and probably cost effective. However, a major problem lies with the line workers, who are Unionist. The new product will reduce manpower needs and is 1 | Page
unpopular. She has always had a good relationship with her workers, but she knows they are highly suspicious. She also knows the new project will not work without their cooperation. She gazed out her window and struggled with how to best handle this situation. Discuss the factors below to analyse how Natalie should react in this situation. Individual Moral development level Preconventional level (self interest, fear, ... Conventional level ( right things because other people do the right things, expectation of family and friends) Principaled (certain convictions, suffer but keep their moral obligations) Individual characteristics ego