Question

1. Whistleblowing by engineers involving in a project is very crucial as it may prevent untoward incident due to ethical problems. Describe in detail the importance of whistleblowing in the engineering profession. Choose a real-life instance where whistleblowing has helped to curb ethical violations in engineering and discuss the lessons which professional engineers can learn from it.

Answer 1

Whistle blowing in the Engineering profession

Whistle blowing in the engineering profession is very important in preventing the untoward incident due to ethical problems.The importance of whistle blowing is as follows

1)It curbs the unethical behaviour within an organization

2)It creates safe and secure working environment for all the other employers

3)It improves the working culture of an organization

Real life instance of whistle blowing

Let us consider the following real life incidence of whistle blowing.Employee Ms.X is a young women who is more dedicated,punctual and hardworking.Her supervisor Mr.Y is a middle aged Man who has grown to the senior position in a very short span through hard and smart work.He has very good influence in the top management.Taking this advantage,,Mr.Y started disturbing Ms.X with the intention of meeting his personal desire.She tolerated to certain limit then complained to the management.But no action has been taken against Mr.Y.Finally she decided to whistle blow in the public.As a response to her whistle blowing,the management terminated Mr.X immediatel and serious measures are taken to ensure women safety within the organization.Here the foolowing lessons are learnt

1)By whistle blowing the person not only stops the unethical issues in the organization,but also saves lot of other employees from encountering unethical situations.

2)The whistle blower is accepted as the leader by the public and other employees.

3)Since the whistle blowing was done at the early stage,the company is saved damaging its brand value much.