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
Gorman, M. E. (1998). Transforming nature: Ethics, invention and design. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Other keywords for this book: trust, distrust; obligations; responsibilities, general; design and the environment; design process; global environmental issues; chemical environmental issues; endangered ecosystems; engineering ethics courses, pedagogy.