Engineering Ethics and its impact on society

*PLAGIARISM*

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(GROUP A) DEBASMITA NIKITA PRATIK SHUBHAM BHAGYADA

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WHAT IS ETHICS?
1.Ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights,obligation,benefits to society, fairness or specific virtues. 2. Ethics refers to the study and development of one's ethical standards.

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JUSTIFICATION
An engineers work has a significant impact on society. The

engineer must recognize his/her responsibilities to society, his/her responsibilites to an employer, responsibilities to fellow workers, and responsibilities to himself or herself.

Ethical dilemmas arise when a situation produces conflicts

in responsibilities to two or more of the above groups. Engineers need to understand their ethical responsibilities, to recognize that conflicts will exist, and to know how to satisfactorily resolve these conflicts. Satisfactory resolution involves knowledge of an appropriate code of ethics, an understanding of how to apply ethical principles to professional situations, and the ability to pursue additional resources if the problem appears novel, beyond the grasp of the individual.
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IMPACT OF BUSINESS ETHICS ON SOCIETY

LOSS OF CONFIDENCE : One outcome of poor ethical and moral practices in business is a general loss of confidence and trust in businesses. Companies rely on their ability to maintain trust with stakeholders in order to maintain profitability over time. Retail companies cannot afford to have much bad press about ethical scandals. Even the appearance of immoral corporate behavior can affect the company.
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 A loss of trust can reduce customer loyalty and

motivate customers to turn to competitors. The unethical practices likely to erode customer loyalty involve activities associated with corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR includes investments in the local community, benevolent work, effective stakeholder relationships, and responsible management of the environment. A breach in CSR expectations can quickly reduce customer loyalty.

Another important area of confidence is with

investors. Unethical accounting practices may be easier to hide by companies and may be more prevalent than the obvious violations of CSR expectations. Customers will never know if ethical accounting practices are followed 5/5/12 in a company. Chances are, many customers do not care.

 More recently, the bailout of large banks was

largely an attempt to prevent the unethical banking practices from closing large banks over leveraged in real estate. Though unpopular it was probably fitting that Congress attempted to clean up the mess it helped to create years earlier with housing legislation that promoted unethical lending

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LOSS OF RESOURCES:
A second effect of poor ethical and moral

practices on the part of businesses is the loss of resources. The phony profits and inflated stock prices collapse over night leaving the shareholders to absorb the losses. Corporate frauds cost employees their jobs as well as jobs in other industries affected by the collapse of the scam. In some cases, as in the bailout of the banks the loss of resources was tax dollars.
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NEW REGULATIONS:
A third effect of poor ethical and moral

practices in business is the introduction of new regulations that apply to all companies. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 is an example of accounting legislation enacted in response to accounting scandals in companies like Enron, Tyco, and Adelphia. SOX imposed strict accounting requirements on all publically held companies and made executives personally responsible for public accounting records.
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What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful

appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work , but the notion remains problematic with nebulous boundaries.
The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and

originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century.

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Self-plagiarism and codes of ethics:

Self-plagiarism(also known as "recycling

fraud") is the reuse of significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one's own work without acknowledging that one is doing so or without citing the originalwork. (APSA) has published a code of ethics which describes plagiarism as "deliberate appropriation of the works of others represented as one's own.
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The American Political Science Association

The Effect on society:

Online plagiarism: Content scraping is a

phenomenon of copy and pasting material from internet websites, affecting both established sites.

Journalism: Since journalism's main currency

is public trust, a reporter's failure to honestly acknowledge their sources undercuts a newspaper or television news show's integrity and undermines its credibility.
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Plagiarism negatively impacts society in many

ways. It becomes difficult for pursuers of knowledge to know what information is dependable and what source it actually came from; if one person is seen as the source of certain information, who they are and his or her background can affect the value put on the information. Information based off plagiarism can negatively impact future articles, papers or whatever is written because this new information is unintentional and unknowingly based off of unreliable sources. 5/5/12

CONCLUSION
Unethical behaviour may be easy and seem to

offer benefits in the short run. However, a long-term picture will see that unethical behaviour will eventually cost the company profits, customers, investors, and credibility.

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