Professional Issues in Computing


Pillars of Professionalism (Contd.)



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Pillars of Professionalism (Contd.)

  • Accountability
    • Obligation to answer for the execution of one’s assigned Responsibilities
    • Process:
      • Setting Measurable Goals,
      • Planning what needs to be done to meet those Goals,
      • Reporting Progress towards Goals,
      • Evaluating the Reports, and
      • Using that feedback to make Improvements
    • Three Key Elements:
      • A set of outcome measures that reliably and objectively evaluate performance
      • A set of performance standards defined in terms of these outcome measures
      • A set of incentives for meeting the standards and/or penalties for failing to meet them

Professional Ethics

Knowledge vs. Goodness

“Goodness without Knowledge is weak. Knowledge without Goodness is Dangerous.”

Paul Tillich

Professional Ethics

  • What is Ethics?
    • Ethics is concerned with human conduct, i.e., behavior of individuals in society
    • Ethics can be defined broadly as a set of moral principles or values
    • The systematic study of rightness and wrongness of human conduct
    • Derived from the Greek word eché which means character
    • Ethics is a collection of heuristics that, when followed, improves our way of life. E.g. always tell the truth
  • Why Ethics Important?
    • Happy Life  Conditions that create happiness
    • Each society establishes rules and limits on acceptable behaviour, these rules form a moral code
    • Sometimes the rules conflict. In general they are beliefs or conventions on good and evil, good or bad conduct, justice and injustice
    • The rules sometimes do not cover new situations

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