Professional ethics encompass the personal, organizational, and corporate standards of behavior expected by professionals. Include: designer’s responsibility to clients, how designers interact with each other, designer’s responsibility to the public, fees and compensation, basic conduct, maintaining behavior in accordance with laws, benefits of transparency.
Essential Skills & Abilities
- Understand professional attitudes supportive of web implementation
- Identify the solution to an ethical dilemma at the lowest management level possible, within the practice or management structure
- Evaluate a situation involving conflicting professional and ethical interests to determine an appropriate course of action
- Evaluate the attitudes of others in order to more effectively work with them
- Evaluate, using actual situations, how attitudes advanced or hindered an engineering project
- Prepare appropriate resources to assist in the resolution of an ethical dilemma
- Perform in an ethical manner, with personal and professional integrity
- Perform selection and implementation of appropriate steps to record or to report to higher-level management or to public authorities in the event that an ethical matter is not adequately resolved