Information exchange with customers and suppliers. Part II When Information exchange with customers and suppliers when the legal processes are not carried out, more caution and steps should be taken to avoid ethical problems that might develop.
Information exchange with customers and suppliers, Part III In Part III, the discussion continues, emphasizing the need for discernment in gray areas if the information, either transfered verbally or through documents should be handled.
IEEE Guidelines for Engineers Dissenting on Ethical Grounds. From the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)11/11/96. The goal of these guidelines is to provide general advice to engineers, including engineering managers, who find themselves in conflicts with management over matters with ethical implications. Much of this advice is pertinent to more general conflicts within organizations.
NSPE Ethics in Employment Task Force Report. Developed by The National Society of Professional Engineers -NSPE-. This report emphasizes the right and the obligation of engineers to raise ethical concerns in the workplace, and provides guidance on how best to raise such issues. It also guides companies that want to guarantee a working environment where employees can feel free to raise concerns.
Relevant Literature on this Topic
Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. and Allen Webb, "Business Ethics: A View from the Trenches," California Management Review 3 (Winter 1995): 8-28. Other keywords for this: ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; professional responsibility; ethics and prudence; professional advice; ethics support.
Nancy K. Austin, "Ethics: Personal vs. Professional," in Working Woman (September 1992): 28, 32. Other keywords for this: conscientious objection; professional advice; ethics support; supervisors and managers.
W. Bakker and M. C. Loui, "Can designing and selling low-quality products be ethical?," Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 153-170, April 1997. Condensed version: M. C. Loui, "The engineer's responsibility for quality," Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 347-350, July 1998. Other keywords for this: ethics and economics; design process; responsibility for product quality; consumer/consumption information.
D. Lin and M. C. Loui, "Taking the byte out of cookies: privacy, consent, and the Web," Computers and Society, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 39-51, June 1998. Other keywords for this: database confidentiality; informed consent from human subjects; computers and privacy.