-Engineering ethics continuously monitors the decision-making process

-It does not consume any effort and does not interfere with the accomplishment of the (healthy) organisation purpose [ethics is always on]
-However, as soon as the means of performing the work lack integrity, the duty of moral oversight requires the engineer to take personal actions (show agency) to call a stop, thereby protecting the well-being of other
people.
-Example: Residual Current Device (RCD): RCD monitors the electrical situation constantly. It consumes no power and does not interfere with the electrical work being done.
-Ethics provides judgement in complex problem-solving
-Ethics provides the principles for decision-making when problems are complex
-Engineering work involves: ‘optimise social, environmental and economic outcomes over the lifetime of the product or project’, ‘interacting effectively with the other people involved’, ‘ensuring that the engineering
contribution is properly integrated into the whole’.

Potential Stakeholders:
• Local Iwi
• Local Communities
• Forest and Bird
• District Council
• Regional Council
• Local City Council
• Civil Aviation Authority
• Local Airport Authority
• Transit New Zealand
• Telecom (Spark)
• Immediate Neighbours
• Local Port
• Department of Conservation
• Chamber of Commerce
• Federated Farmers
• Local Farming Community
•Agriculturalists, Wineries, Horticulturalists

-Ethics is the practical application of wisdom in professional practice

-The engineering profession requires its members to behave ethically. Making wise decisions and behaving with integrity requires courage, more so when no one is looking. This involves wisdom, self-denial, acceptance of
the duty to act (personal agency), and professional judgement. A sense of moral purposefulness, i.e. wisdom, is necessary because otherwise the competing priorities and expediencies of the moment will dominate.

This is important because: (1) Ethics provides the personal judgement necessary in complex problem-solving. The complexities arise because of competing interests of multiple stakeholders, difficult circumstances, conflicts
of interests, limits of own capability. (2) Ethics provides the engineer with moral checks and balances to protect against own selfishness and temptation. (3) Ethics provides a framework for the engineer to impartially
balance the competing interests of self, client/customer, supplier/contractor, employer, and society. (4) Ethics sets the expectations for how engineering solutions intersect with humanity, especially regarding the health &
safety of people, and the adverse effects on the natural environment.
Corruption: Corruption as a progressive entrapment from an initial ‘sweetener’ through a series of small gifts and favours that builds up to a level of ‘loyal’ reciprocation. Sunshine test (sweetener): ‘Avoid the “sweetener”:
avoid a situation whereby the acceptance of advantages will place you in a position of obligation to reciprocate the Offeror’. ‘Would you and the other party be able to discuss the matter openly, and likewise disclose the
decision, without misgivings?’. [Hong Kong society of engineers].
Professional worldview: Professional ethics is professional worldview. A worldview is the totality of an individual’s personal identity, perspective on the world, and the values they seek to embody in their own life.