Raising Concerns

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• Guidelines for Engineerings Dissenting on Ethical Grounds Provide general advice to engineerings facing conflicts with ethical implications.
• Fair Credit The first topic in a sequence of research activities, one of the objectives being "Familiarity with avenues for raising concerns about possible misconduct"
• Responsibility for Bugs and Errors The second topic in a sequence of research activities, one of the contents being "Resources for raising concerns about possible misconduct".
• Complaints and Whistle-blowing Two minicases from "Graymatters", a game from Lockheed Martin Corporation, designed to educate employees. .

• Roger Boisjoly's Attempts to Avert the Challenger Disaster Boisjoly's narration of the events that lead to the Challenger Disaster and how he gave an alert that was ignored. This negligence caused the death of the whole tripulation of the shuttle. Includes extensive supporting material. Translation into Spanish available.

• William LeMessurier's Emergency Repair of the Structural Supports for New York City's Citicorp Tower An 8-part document that summarizes the story of LeMessurier and the difficult situation he faced when he discovered that the structure of the Citicorp Tower (NY), for which he had been a design and construction consultant, had to be repaired before a hurricane destroid the building. Translation into Spanish available
• Rachel Carson's Campaign to Control the Use of Pesticides An account of the events that preceded the publication of Carson's Silent of Spring, a book that brought awareness of the use of pesticides to the general public. The Supporting Material includes excerpts from letters written by Carson and a bibliography. Translation into Spanish available
• Fred Cuny and Disaster Relief This disaster relief specialist gave up his life to help others. Our pages offer a summary of the humanitarian work he did in Biafra, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, and also in Chechnya, where he disappeared. Translation into Spanish available
• Inez Austin: Protecting the Public Safety at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation The story of Austin and how she denied to authorize a procedure that would put in risk the general public's safety. This document is largely based on extensive communications with Austin herself.

Relevant Literature and Videos on this Topic

• The Story of the Challenger Disaster : a videotape of Roger Boisjoly's narration of the events that lead to the disaster of the shuttle.
• A Major Malfunction: a more extensive video resource on the Challenger story. A three-part video program and instructional module containing a pedagogical documentary about organizational politics, ethics and decision making
• The Story of the Citicorp Tower. A high-quality video of a lecture by LeMessurier on this topic.

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