Test 2 Flashcards
(49 cards)
Design and procedures ensuring that if a product fails it will fail safely and the user can safely escape the product.
Safe exits
The risks about the technology, were they fully known, would be judged acceptable by a reasonableperson in light of their settled value principles.
Safety
Keeping secret the information specified by an employer or client in order to complete effectively against buisenss rivals, especially proprietary information and trade secrets.
Confidentiality
rights an an employee, including rights to privacy, nondiscrimination, equal oppertinity
Employee rights
study of moral issues concerning the environment
environmental ethics
increasing intergration of nations through trade, investment, transfer of technology and idea
Globilization
Studies of which design has the greatest merit
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Reasonable laws and sanctions are appropriate componenets of engineering, by laws set the rules for minimal compliance rather then providing the full substance of engineering ethics.
Balanced outlook on law
Studies determining the risks, the benefits, and weather the project or product is worth the risks connected with its use.
Risk-benefit analysis
Dealing with conflicts, including value disagreements, in order to maintain teamwork.
Managing conflict
economic and technological patters that are compatible with preserving environmental capacities to sustain future generations
sustatianable development
A virtue of teamwork that includesrepect for colleagues, commitment to the moral ideals inherent in one’s profession, and connectedness in a sense of awareness of participation in cooperative projects based on shared commitments and mutual support
Collegiality
Studies of which design has the greatest merit.
Cost-effective analysis
Weather the risk is assumed voluntarily, how the probabilities of harm or benefit are presented, job-related or other pressues, magnitude, and proximity
Risk perception factors
1) They are carried out in partial ignorance. 2) Have uncertain outcomes. 3) Require monitoring and feedback. 4) Mandate obtaining informed consent from those affected.
Engineering as a social experiment
giving prefrence
affirmative prefrence
Voew that all living organisms have inherent worth
Biocentric worth
Weather the risk is assumed voluntarily, how the probabilities of harm or benefit are presented, job-related or other pressures, magnitude, and proximity.
Risk perception factors
The risk about the technology, where they they fully known, would be judged acceptable by a reasonably person in light of their settled value principles.
Safety
1) Ethical values in their full complexithy are widely ackwoledged by mangers and employees
2) Ethical language is honestly applied and recognized as a coperate dialog
3) Top management sets a moral tone
4) Procedures for conflict resolution
Ethical corprate climate
the cost of products and services is made to inclide indirect costs such as the effects of pollution
internilizing cost
view that moral princiaples have no justifed exceptions
ethical absolutism
Unwanted imposition of sexual requiements
Sexual Discrimination
corperation doing extensive business in more then one contry
Multinational corporations