Engineering Ethics

THE ETHICAL ANALYSIS
ON
THE ISSUES OF WHISTLE BLOWING

Final Report for ELEC4122 Strategic Leadership & Ethics
The university of New South Wales
Australia, Sydney



ABSTRACT:
The report presents the framework analysis on the engineering ethical issues on the whistle blowing. The whistle blowing is essential to this society to keep the justice and public safety. It is the way to fight with the corruption and public hazards. From the different ethical perspectives, we find that for the engineering who has the right and duty to the public interest the whistle blowing is also the right and duty to the engineers.   It is not only for maximizing the public interests, but also for the virtues and self-realization. However these right and duty are restrained by particular circumstances.   To blow the whistle successfully, there are some guidelines for the engineers to identify whether the whistle blowing is permitted or obligate. And the basic producers will help the engineers to avoid misinterpretation and hurt to themselves. At last the protection from the society should be enhanced to make the whistle blower sustainable, the professional society can help to reward the whistle blower to encourage.  


Table of Contents
1 4
1 INTRODUCTION: 4
2 5
2 Definition of the whistle blowing 5
3 Ethical issues 5
4 Why whistle blowing 6
4.1 WHAT IS GOODNESS? 6
4.2 UTILITARIANISM: 6
4.3 Rights: 7
4.4 DUTIES: 7
4.5 VIRTUE ETHICS: 8
4.6 SELF-REALIZATION AND SELF-INTEREST: 8
4.7 WHISTLE BLOWING IS IMPORTANT, PERMITTED AND OBLIGATE 8
5 HOW TO BLOW WHISTLE 9
5.1 GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURES 9
5.2 PROTECTION FROM THE SOCIETY 9
6 10
6 CONCLUSION: 10


1 INTRODUCTION:
The ethics is a branch of philosophy concerning with the moral principles and the rightness and wrongness of human behaviors . It is not like the law or regulations that force the people to follow, but it really provides the guidelines of the behaviors to social beings. Ethics’ regulation...