ENGR 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Employer, Rights, Departmentalization

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Engineering
• Course: ENGR 213
• Professor: Alexia Papadopoulos

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Analyzing choices: professionals must make multiple choices, each comes with different courses of action. Making the choice: after analysis, one must make a decision (ex. Intro: any human behavior has three aspects, agent: focuses on the person who will act (virtue theory, action: focuses on the nature of the action (deontological, result: focuses on the nature of the action (consequentialism) Agent (virtue theory: commonly referred to as aristotle"s virtue theory, the theory suggests that a better guide to ethical action is the character of the person performing it. People seek to lead virtuous and balanced lives. Character and virtue are more immediate guides: virtue can be achieved by following the golden mean between extremes of the action. Action (deontological theory: actions are only as ethical as the nature of the action chosen. Doing your duty: ethical action arises from following rules generated by one"s conscience.