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Does your company have a set of ethical principles or values?If so, has this ever changed your behaviour?

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Facilitator: Penny TaylorThis session will start at 12:45

Ethical principles in engineering: Why being good, is good for business.

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Third in a series of Webinars

1. Why you should know your values and know your company’s values. - 12th September

2. A new addition to UK-SPEC – Ethics (competence E5) and looking at what the Code of Conduct means for you as a Professional Engineer. – 13th

October

3. An exploration of Ethics for engineers and why it is increasingly important in business.

Friday 5th December

Penny Taylor

IMechE Fellow.

25 years in the car industry.

Facilitates the ‘Applying Ethical Principles in Engineering’ course.

Vice-Chair of Professional Review Committee, scrutinising all C.Engapplications.

At the end of this webinar, you will:

Know why being ethical is good for your business ;

Understand that ethics is important in engineering;

Be more aware of ethical issues in your working life.

Objectives -

Is being good, good for business?

The Ethics boom…..

2008

78%

2005

57%

Source: London Business School and Arthur Andersen

Driving the ethics boom -

The Roundabout and the Traffic Light-

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

- Henry Ford

Ethics successes -

1. Not about compliance but about values;

2. Integrated with other policies;

3. Management are seen to be held accountable.

Results-

Where managers uphold ethical standards: 80%+ recommend Co. to potential recruits

80%+ customers recommend the Co.

Where managers don’t support ethical standards: <20% recommend Co. to potential recruits

<40% customers recommend the Co.

Tension:

Management tend to emphasize corporate efficiency and productivity.

Engineers tend to emphasize excellence in creating useful, safe and quality products.

Difference in emphasis only

RMS Titanic

Being a responsible engineer:

1. A conscientious commitment to live by moral values.

2. A comprehensive perspective on the experimental nature of the project.

3. Moral Autonomy for all steps of a project.

4. Accepting accountability for the results of a project.

Conscientiousness -

Comprehensive Perspective -

Moral Autonomy-

Accountability -

Objectives -

At the end of this webinar, you will:

Know why being ethical is good for your business ;

Understand that ethics is important in engineering;

Be more aware of ethical issues in your working life.

Third in a series of Webinars

1. Why you should know your values and know your company’s values. - 12th September

2. A new addition to UK-SPEC – Ethics (competence E5) and looking at what the Code of Conduct means for you as a Professional Engineer – 13th

October.

3. An exploration of Ethics for engineers and why it is increasingly important in business.

Friday 5th December

If you want to know more-

1-day course in London

‘Applying Ethical Principles’

21st May 2015

Engineering case studies

Moral frameworks for decision making

Using the engineering design process as a model for making moral decisions.

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