INTRODUCTION Management have an ethical and social responsibility to themselves, their clients and society. Practically (although there is much debate about this), engineering ethics is about balancing cost, schedule, and risk. Management ethics is a means to increase the ability of concerned engineers, managers, citizens and others to responsibly confront moral issues raised by technological activities. The awareness of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations are involved in Management &Technology. MANAGEMENT ETHICS WHY STUDY MANAGEMENT ETHICS? Training In Preventive Ethics

• Stimulating the moral imagination

• Recognizing ethical issues

• Developing analytical skills

• Eliciting a sense of responsibility

• Tolerating disagreement and ambiguity Obstruction to Responsibility

• Self-interest.

• Fear.

• Self-deception.

• Ignorance.

• Egocentric tendencies.

• Microscopic vision.

• Groupthink Clearly Wrong Engineering Practices

• Lying

• Withholding information

• Failing to adequately promote the dissemination of information

• Failure to seek out the truth

• Revealing confidential or proprietary information

• Allowing one‘s judgment to be corrupted. Questionable Management Practices

• Trimming – smoothing of irregularities to make data look extrem