Towards a global Code of Ethics for engineers
Towards a global Code of Ethics for engineers
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制定全球工程师道德准则
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2014
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Laura Kombo
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S. alZahir;Laura Kombo
从理论上讲，道德守则是职业行为的广泛准则。这些守则旨在帮助专业人员维护最高水平的道德行为，并保持与其专业职责有关的实践和诚信标准。一般而言，这些指引包括但不限于保障公众利益、展示专业能力、保密、处理利益冲突及履行社会责任。虽然不同国家的不同专业工程学会有不同的道德规范，但它们都有一些共同的基本教义，即正确和错误，以及如何将其应用于决策过程。在本文中，我们研究的兼容性的IEEE道德准则与32个国际专业工程学会在非洲，亚洲，澳大利亚，欧洲和拉丁美洲的道德准则。我们的研究结果表明，只有四个国家采用了IEEE的道德准则，而其他28个国家有一些变化，即，采纳了一些条款，忽略了一些条款，增加了一些自己的条款。研究国际文章表明，社会政治和文化差异是造成这种差异的主要原因。最后，我们的研究结果表明，一个全球性的职业道德守则是可以想象的，可以产生和接受的最低限度的认真努力。
Theoretically, Codes of Ethics are broad guidelines to professional conduct. These codes are designed to help professionals uphold the highest level of ethical conduct and maintain standards of practice and integrity pertaining to their professional duties. Generally, these guidelines include but not limited to protecting the public interest, demonstrating professional competence, preserving confidentiality, attending to conflict of interest and perpetuating social responsibility. Although different professional engineering societies, in different counties, have different codes of ethics, but they all have some common basic teachings of right and wrong and how to apply it in decisions making process. In this paper, we examine the compatibility of the IEEE code of ethics with thirty two 32 international codes of ethics of professional engineering societies in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America. Our research results show that only four countries have adopted the IEEE code of ethics as is, while the other 28 countries have some variations of it i.e., adopted some articles, ignored some articles and added some of their own. Examining the international articles show that sociopolitical and cultural differences are the main causes of such variations. Finally, our findings shows that a global professional code of ethics is conceivable and can be produced and accepted with minimal conscientious efforts.