Project management 1

1.3 Assignment: Ethics and Professionalism

Assignment:  Read the below question and answer the questions that follow.  Be sure to use complete sentences and provide a thorough and thoughtful response to earn full points.

1st Question: 

Michael Davis defines professions as follows: “A profession is a number of individuals in the same occupation voluntarily organized to earn a living by openly serving a certain moral ideal in a morally permissible way beyond what law, market, and [everyday] morality would otherwise require.” He argues that carpenters, barbers, porters, and other groups who organize their work around a shared code of ethics should be recognized as professionals. Do you agree or disagree, and why? Can this issue be settled by reference to a dictionary?

 

2nd Questions :

A cafeteria in an office building has comfortable tables and chairs, indeed too comfortable: They invite people to linger longer than the management desires. You are asked to design uncomfortable ones, to discourage such lingering. (a) Is there a moral dilemma here? (b) Are there moral choices involved in whether and how to design the new furniture?