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Where is the code of ethics of the managers of software engineers? Most places that is where all the decision making power really lives, so it is vacuous to put
by jgeada 4y ago
Where is the code of ethics of the managers of software engineers?
Most places that is where all the decision making power really lives, so it is vacuous to put onus on the underlings.
And what good is a code that has no teeth?
What happens when people do not behave as required by this code?
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoFor all of the corporate onboarding ethics training courses I’ve participated in, not once have I seen a course on what to say to your manager when you are asked to violate your ethics.
- bee_rider 4y agoI suspect nobody has written a code of ethics for managers because they are mostly thought of as extensions of the company. If a manager is asking middle-class professionals to do unethical or dangerous things, the hope is that they would quickly find themselves without these kinds of employees. If a manager is asking members of the working-class to do unethical or dangerous things, the hope is that their union would throw a fit. If you have neither the moat of being hard to replace nor the moat of being part of organized labor, you are in a rough spot.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoI won’t speak for management, as MBA is pretty easy to search for on the internet, but project management does have the following: https://www.pmi.org/about/ethics/code https://www.pmi.org/about/ethics/code It does speak volumes that even PMI has links to articles such as “Being Ethical is Profitable”
- mcrad 4y agoGreat question! And what about the distain for MBA degrees (where management ethics are taught) among so called software engineers? And what good is a code if you have to be an "underling" to follow it?