Codes of Conduct

12 important questions on Codes of Conduct

What two types of Codes of Conduct are important for engineers?

  1. Professional codes
  2. Corporate codes

What is Professional code?

Code of conduct that is formulated by a professional association.

What is Corporate code?

Code of conduct that is formulated by a company.
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What three types of Codes of Conduct a distinction can be made?

  • Aspirational code
  • Advisory code
  • Disciplinary code

What are characteristics of a Profession?

  1. Use of specialized knowledge and skills
  2. A monopoly on the carrying out of the occupation
  3. Assessment only possible by peers
  4. Service orientation to society 
  5. Ethical standards


What are three domains that relate with Professional codes?

  1. Conducting a profession with integrity and honesty and in a competent way
  2. Obligations towards employers and clients
  3. Responsibility towards the public and society

What is Uncritical loyalty?

Placing the interest of the employer, as the employer defines those interests, above any other considerations.

What is Critical loyalty?

Giving due regard to the interest of the employer, insofar as this possible within the constraints of the employee's personal and professional ethics.

What are the three arguments why ethics cannot be codified?

  1. Ethics requires individual moral judgement, instead of blindly following a code.
  2. Codes of conduct are not morally binding.
  3. They presuppose that morality can be expressed in a set of universal moral rules.

What is Confidentiality duties?

Duties on employees to keep silent certain information

What is External Auditing?

Assessing of a company in terms of its code of conduct by an external organization.

What is Professional Autonomy?

The ideal that individual professionals achieve themselves moral conclusions by reasoning clearly and carefully.

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