Professional Ethics And Competence In Design: Lessons Learned From A Negative Experience And A Moral Dilemma

The Negative Experience at Work

I recently faced a negative experience in the place that I work. Presently, I am the senior designer of my company and my job is to design different organizational products. Recently, my team leader told me to design a product which was based on 3d printing technology. He even provided me a blueprint of the product which showed the specifications of the product. The blueprint really made my job easier. Initially, I accepted the assignment and started to do my research on the product on the web. After through research I came to the conclusion that the product was already being used by another company with the same specifications that my team leader had told me to do. I refused to complete the assignment immediately. This led to the conflict in my workplace.

The reason for the conflict was that my senior team member did not want to acknowledge that the actions could have serious repercussions. The company could face several lawsuits due to infringement of copyrights of the products that the victim company was already using. Our company could face massive misdemeanour of their reputation due to the consequences of the action. Even I could have faced possible repercussions as I was the chief product designer of the company. The senior authorities did not take my rejection lightly and told me to continue with my work without any more questions.

The above experience taught me some basic things about professional ethics. Being a professional, it is my duty to do my task diligently. The team leader was a bad example of diligent professional. His professional conduct well as mine could have been tampered by his actions. Our company could have gone in a lot of trouble due to the proposed actions as they could have charged with a number of lawsuits on copyright violation. Due to his actions, not only me but also the rest of the employees pf the company could have faced a lot of trouble.

I decided to face the situation head on. Considering the serious ness of the matter, I would have told my authorities about the prospective situation and would have told them to reconsider the action that the team leader was going to conduct. Being the chief designer, I would have given them some recommendations if they were unable to think the situation properly. As the designer I was capable enough to design the product from scratch.

The Importance of Professional Ethics

The positive impact of the situation was that my team leader and the rest of the senior authorities decide do go with my recommendation. The negative impact of the situation was that the team leader got angry on me.

I recently became aware that friends were using ghost writers to pass their examination. This concerned me a lot and I decided to tell my lecturer about the situation. I know that this will be ruin my friendship with my prospective classmates but I am willing to take the chance as it will help them in the future.

Honesty is an imperative component of the ACS code of professional conduct. The code characterizes the ascent of tricky circumstances in the expert space that will entice to perform. To keep up my moral expert direct, it is dependent upon me to dismiss this sorts of proposition. My friends ought to comprehend the requirements of their calling and what their closely-held conviction request that they do. The calling needs them to be morally right in all expert direct independent of the outside corrupt conditions. According to the component of the ACS code, the individual who is playing out the task rather than the genuine classmate  ought to be given appropriate credit sincerely. My colleagues ought not utilize someone else’s work only for their own increases. To enhance their grades, they ought not utilize the work by professional writers (Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct, 2018).

The following component is competence which is said in the ACS code of professional conduct (Acs.org.au, 2018). This component suggests that for completing an expert assignment, the expert ought to be sufficiently able to take up the professional work. He or she ought to quickly deny the assignment if he or she isn’t able to do in the most ideal way imaginable. The provided scenario demonstrates that the understudies are utilizing crafted by professional writers to do their assignments. The capability of someone else must not be misconstrued for getting decent evaluations by the students. If the individual can’t do the task, the best possible method for settling the circumstance is genuinely admit to the instructor that he or she can’t do the work and need help from their companions to finish the task.

Professional competence is another aspect of ACS Code of professional conduct. To promote their personal gains, they used the work of ghost writers. Their actions could tarnish the name of the ACS code of conduct and could potentially tarnish their professional carrier.

ACS Code of Professional Conduct

 Performing the said activities will help the students to enhance their quality of life and increase their satisfaction and competence.

References

Acs.org.au, (2018). Retrieved 25 April 2018, from https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/rules-and-regulations/Code-of-Professional-Conduct_v2.1.pdf

Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct. (2018). CFA Institute. Retrieved 25 April 2018, from https://cfainstitute.org/ethics/codes/ethics/Pages/index.aspx

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