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Professional Ethics
Engineer’s Code of Ethics in Venezuela
PROFESSIONALISM By Javier Antonio Infante
It is the ability of individuals and institutions to develop an activity of quality, committed with the beneficiaries of change in an environment of teamwork. It is used to describe all practices, behaviors and attitudes that are guided by pre-established rules of respect, restraint, objectivity, and the effectiveness in the activity that is performed.
It is the direct consequence of being professional, an individual that has a particular profession and that is practiced according to socially preset patterns to itself. Patterns can be since physical aspects and of appearance to moral and ethical attitudes.
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Professionalism and ethic of jobs are two relevant characteristics in the setting of a small company. Business owners often use these elements to assure that their companies work of the best professional and ethical possible way. While companies can start under a variety of circumstances, they often contain elements of similar business. The style and structure of an organization can also depend on the personal use of the businessman of professionalism and his ethic of work to handle business situations. ď‚—
Work ethic is usually concerned about personal values show by businessman and entrepreneur and inculcate in the company’s staff. Good ethic can include the making of tasks of a timely way with the highest possible quality and displaying completed tasks.
NOTA: This is why; professionalism and work ethic show by people in the business environment can be constructed around a moral code of ethics or internal system.
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS By Juan Paradas
Nowadays, profession is a personal activity, set of a stable way and honored to the service of others and the own benefit, to impulses of the own vocation and corresponding with the dignity of the human person. Strictly speaking, this word means only university courses. Broadly, it also covers the trades and permanent jobs and paid, but not requiring a college For his profession, the degree. individual occupies a position that gives it special duties and rights, like: vocation, which is the choice of profession it must be completely free. Who choose, according to his own vocation, has already guaranteed half of his success in work.
Therefore, for the own benefit the ideal is to take into account the pleasure and usefulness of the profession; and if it is not so insist in this aspect, it is because everybody is inclined by nature to the consideration of personal gain, thanks to its profession. It is worth mentioning the sacrifice involving almost all professions: doctors, getting up at midnight to attend a seriously ill patient; engineers, with heavy responsibilities to work. Profession also thanks to these works, leaves, in the end, one of the deepest satisfactions.
A professional should provide special training in two ways: intellectual and moral capacity. Intellectual capacity is considered a set of knowledge that within their profession, it is suitable to develop its work. This knowledge is basically acquired during university studies, but they must be updated through magazines, conferences, and libraries consultations. It is the responsibility of the professional to stay updated in knowledge.
The moral capacity is the value of the professional as a person, which gives dignity, seriousness and nobility to his work, worthy of appreciation of every person that finds it. It not only covers honesty in dealing, not only in the sense of responsibility for fulfillment with the agreed, but also the ability to cover and transfer its own professional sphere in a much broader horizon, toward finding and building a more just and balanced society.
Professional must exercise his function from the strictest honesty and fidelity to his principles. Along with the knowledge and skills for the good performance, professionals should be characterized by their ethical and moral principles, for his honesty foolproof, for his incorruptibility, their discipline, their collective spirit, for its austerity, modesty and simple lifestyle. Professional practice demands a wide range of autonomy, both personal and collective as a whole, whose correlate is the assumption of the responsibilities inherent to the development of the activity.
ENGINEER’S CODE OF ETHICS IN VENEZUELA By Javier Infante and Juan Paradas.
Professional ethics can be seen as normative science of righteousness of professional performance of human beings according to principles, following the guidelines established or dictated by the laws and rules designed for this purpose.
According to the foregoing, our career of architects and engineers is also regulated by an ethical behavior, thus, it exist the Professional Code of Ethics for Engineers, Architects and Allied Careers, and this circumscribe us within limits of behavior which we must comply.
1st. (virtues): Act in any way which would undermine the honor, responsibility and those virtues of honesty, integrity and truthfulness that should form the basis of a proper exercise of the profession.
2nd. (illegality) Violate or permit laws, ordinances and regulations related to the proper professional practice.
3rd. (knowledge): Neglecting the maintenance and improvement of their technical skills, thereby, belittling the confidence that society grants to professional practice.
4th. (seriousness): Offer to performance specialties and functions for which, you do not have ability, preparation and fair experiences. 5th. (Dispense): Dispensing, for friendship, convenience or coercion, fulfillment of mandatory provisions, when the mission of his position is to respect and accomplish them.
6th. (remuneration): Offer, request or provide professional services for less payment than the minimum wages established by the College of Engineer in Venezuela. 7th. (remuneration): Develop projects and prepare reports with gross negligence or lightness, or inappropriate optimistic approach. 8th. (signature): Signing drawings prepared by others without consultation and take responsibility of projects or jobs that are not under your immediate direction, review or supervision. 9th. (works): take charge of works without have been done all the necessary technical studies for its proper implementation, or when performing them have been reported to periods incompatible with good professional practice. 10th. (Purchases): Concur or invite deliberately to purchases to study and / or work projects. 11th. (influence): Offer, give or receive improper compensation and commissions and, request influences or use them for obtaining or granting professional work, or to create situations of
privilege for you action.
Nota. A professional ethics can be seen as someone who "walks the talk" in his personal moral and ethics.