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Title: Data Set from 2016 Survey of Chinese Engineers on Professional Ethics: Questionnaire Survey on the Occupational Cognitive Status-20160428: Questionnaire Survey on the Occupational Cognitive Status-20160428
Creator: Davis, Michael, Zhang, Hengli
Date: 2016-05, 2016-05
Description: Raw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr...
Show moreRaw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr. Michael Davis of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Dr. Hengli Zhang of the Center for Engineering Ethics Studies, Beijing University of Technology
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Title: Data Set from 2016 Survey of Chinese Engineers on Professional Ethics: Q24 Do you know the technical standards and code of conducts of your engineering society-2016-5-19
Creator: Davis, Michael, Zhang, Hengli
Date: 2016-05, 2016-05
Description: Raw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr...
Show moreRaw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr. Michael Davis of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Dr. Hengli Zhang of the Center for Engineering Ethics Studies, Beijing University of Technology
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Title: Data Set from 2016 Survey of Chinese Engineers on Professional Ethics: Copy of data set
Creator: Davis, Michael, Zhang, Hengli
Date: 2016-05, 2016-05
Description: Raw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr...
Show moreRaw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr. Michael Davis of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Dr. Hengli Zhang of the Center for Engineering Ethics Studies, Beijing University of Technology
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Title: Data Set from 2016 Survey of Chinese Engineers on Professional Ethics: Q22 What do you think about engineers-- promotion opportunity--- And what concerns do you have about your career development-2016-5-19
Creator: Davis, Michael, Zhang, Hengli
Date: 2016-05, 2016-05
Description: Raw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr...
Show moreRaw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr. Michael Davis of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Dr. Hengli Zhang of the Center for Engineering Ethics Studies, Beijing University of Technology
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Title: Data Set from 2016 Survey of Chinese Engineers on Professional Ethics: Q23 How do you think that engineers can get their success and self-identity-2016-5-19
Creator: Davis, Michael, Zhang, Hengli
Date: 2016-05, 2016-05
Description: Raw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr...
Show moreRaw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr. Michael Davis of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Dr. Hengli Zhang of the Center for Engineering Ethics Studies, Beijing University of Technology
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Title: Why Teaching Workplace Ethics Is Not As Hard As You Thought
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2011-11-07, 1988-05-18
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
Description: This presentation for the Illinois Vocational Education Coordinators Association is in three parts. The first seeks to make it easier for you...
Show moreThis presentation for the Illinois Vocational Education Coordinators Association is in three parts. The first seeks to make it easier for you to teach workplace ethics by freeing you from what the author calls "the four fears", namely the fear of not being value neutral, the fear of subjectivism, the fear of relativism, and the fear of impotence. After addressing these fears, Part II presents a classroom situation win which you could discuss workplace ethics, and some suggestions on teaching methods.
Sponsorship: Illinois Cooperative Vocational Education Coordinators Association
Mini-Seminar for the Illinois Cooperative Vocational Education Coordinators Association. Naperville Central High School, Naperville, Illinois. 19 May 1988, 1-5 pm.
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Title: Technology, Values, and Ethics : A Framework
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2006, 1992-02-01
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Three words of my title--"technology", "values", and "ethics"--have this in common: they have all been used in enough different ways to be...
Show moreThree words of my title--"technology", "values", and "ethics"--have this in common: they have all been used in enough different ways to be dangerous. To provide the framework my title promises, I shall have to distinguish the most important of those uses, set them in context, and explain how they are (or are not) related. This conceptual housecleaning, rather boring in itself, will give me the opportunity to talk about engineering, both its history and practice. That will not be boring.
GTE Lecture University of Wisconsin Center/Fond du Lac October 13, 199
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Title: The Moral Legislature
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2006, 1985-11-05
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: This paper is an experiment in what John Rawls recently called "Kantian constructiivism". It seeks to establish a "suitable connection between...
Show moreThis paper is an experiment in what John Rawls recently called "Kantian constructiivism". It seeks to establish a "suitable connection between a particular conception of the person and first principles of [morality] by means of a procedure of construction. Yet, it differs from Rawls' similar efforts in a number of ways. The emphasis is morality generally, not justice in particular. The construction attempts to be more "realistic" especially in substituting external procedures for Rawls' "veil of ignorance". These differences are, I hope, at least suggested by substituting "the moral legislature" for Rawls' "original position". Section I of this paper explains further what motivates the sort of construction proposed, sections II-V describe the moral legislature itself, explaining as well why it makes sense to construct it as I do and how it differs from some obvious alternatives. Section VI concludes with an example of how the moral legislature might be used, the sketch of an argument for the claim that positive law cannot in in generally be morally obliging.
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Title: Conflict of Interest : What's to Worry?
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2008, 1994-05-10
Description: Michael Green's "Culture, Self, and Ethical Paradigms" is a daring paper. Though we must finally reject its argument and suspend judgement on...
Show moreMichael Green's "Culture, Self, and Ethical Paradigms" is a daring paper. Though we must finally reject its argument and suspend judgement on its conclusions, it has much to teach us about the possible relationships between business ethics and surrounding culture.
Presentation given at Holland Laboratory, Rockville, Maryland, May 10, 1994.
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Title: Culture, Social Psychology, and Business Ethics
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2008, 1991-04-05
Description: Michael Green's "Culture, Self, and Ethical Paradigms" is a daring paper. Though we must finally reject its argument and suspend judgement on...
Show moreMichael Green's "Culture, Self, and Ethical Paradigms" is a daring paper. Though we must finally reject its argument and suspend judgement on its conclusions, it has much to teach us about the possible relationships between business ethics and surrounding culture.
Presentation given at the Annual Meeting of the American Business Law Association
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Title: Ethical Considerations for Personnel Administrators and Human Resources Managers
Creator: Frankel, Mark S., Frankel, Mark S.
Date: 2005, 1984-06
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Human resource professionals and personnel administrators in their professional role will inevitably make decisions that affect the welfare of...
Show moreHuman resource professionals and personnel administrators in their professional role will inevitably make decisions that affect the welfare of the organizations and the people they work for and with. Determining the "proper course of action" often raises ethical concerns. This paper discusses how ethical analysis and decision making can help human resource managers make decisions that benefit both the company and the company's employees.
Invited paper presented at the National Conference of the American Society for Personnel Administration, Chicago June 1984.
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Title: Data Set from 2016 Survey of Chinese Engineers on Professional Ethics
Creator: Davis, Michael, Zhang, Hengli
Date: 2016-05, 2016-05
Description: Raw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr...
Show moreRaw data of a survey of Chinese engineers looking at their conceptions of professionalism and professional ethics. Collaborative project by Dr. Michael Davis of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Dr. Hengli Zhang of the Center for Engineering Ethics Studies, Beijing University of Technology
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Title: Four Kinds of Workplace Ethics for Discussion
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2006, 1988
Description: A collection of four cases illustrating common ethical issues that come up in business settings, covering the topics of managerial ethics,...
Show moreA collection of four cases illustrating common ethical issues that come up in business settings, covering the topics of managerial ethics, drugs in the workplace, stealing from the workplace, and supervisor and worker relationships.
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Title: Methodological Missteps: A Response to Brooks' "On Retribution"
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2006, 2006-05-14
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Thom Brooks claims his paper has only one thesis—that, for epistemological reasons (in particular, requiring a “gold standard of desert”), ...
Show moreThom Brooks claims his paper has only one thesis—that, for epistemological reasons (in particular, requiring a “gold standard of desert”), “retributivism is impossible to enact as a practice”. I think the paper has at least two other theses as well, both unacknowledged and more or less independent of the first. One is that there is only one true retributivism (“pure retributivism” or “retributivism strictly speaking”). This claim seems to rest on an unjustified, and (I believe) unjustifiable, Platonism. The second unacknowledged thesis is that this one true retributivism suffers (and must suffer) from certain flaws, in particular: 1) moral rigorism (forbidding the criminal justice system to show mercy or to deviate in any other way from what the criminal deserves for his crime); 2) methodological individualism (requiring that desert be “a particular criminal’s desert” unaffected by “other factors, such as society’s equilibrium”); and 3) methodological absolutism (an inability to “choose punishments on account of how they might be related to each other and various crimes”). What I propose to do here is, first, briefly dispose of Brooks’ epistemological claim, then (at greater length) explain why retributivism is best thought of as a family of loosely related theories no one of which has the privilege of being “true retributivism” (even though some are certainly historically or conceptually closer to the core of retributive thinking than others) and, last, why, so understood, retributivism does not suffer from any of the three flaws Brooks claims true retributivism must suffer from.
Published as part of the Online Philosophy Conference, May 14, 2006.http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/online_philosophy_confere/
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Title: Ethics After the Crash
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2005, 1987-12-10
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Though my title may suggest a concern with wrongdoing, my primary concern is good conduct, how to get people to do the right thing. I shall...
Show moreThough my title may suggest a concern with wrongdoing, my primary concern is good conduct, how to get people to do the right thing. I shall argue that you have a special role to play in the firms for which you work, a role that goes beyond financial analysis. Your training in ethics and your commitment to a standard higher than law, market, and morality, give you insight into certain hard choices that your employer or co-workers may lack. I also shall argue that you should go out of your way to make that insight available.
Paper presented at a meeting for the Society of Financial Analysts, Toronto, Canada, December 10, 1987.
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Title: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Workplace : A Philosophical Inquiry
Creator: Ladenson, Robert F.
Date: 2005, 1979-11-01
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Should the employees of a large private business be free to speak out on any subject without fear of dismissal or other sanctions even when...
Show moreShould the employees of a large private business be free to speak out on any subject without fear of dismissal or other sanctions even when they level harsh criticisms at their employers? In this paper I will argue that they should for reasons that closely parallel one of the fundamental bases for the principle of freedom of expression pertaining to the relation between individuals of the state. An important consequence of this view is that corporate employees should be free to speak without fear of sanction even when they make false allegations that lead to a decline in either productivity or profits.
Paper presented at the Conference on Business Ethics, Western Michigan University, November 1-2, 1979.
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Title: General Contractors : Some Ethical Problems
Creator: Davis, Michael
Date: 2003, 1987-10
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: A series of small ethics case studies illustrating ethical dilemmas that general contractors in the construction industry are likely to face.

Title: Professionalism Among Chinese Engineers: An Empirical Study
Creator: Wei, Lina, Davis, Michael
Date: 2019-03-18, 2019-03-18
Description: This is a copy of a dataset - in English and Chinese - completed in 2018 looking at concepts of professionalism. Following on the Davis, Zhang...
Show moreThis is a copy of a dataset - in English and Chinese - completed in 2018 looking at concepts of professionalism. Following on the Davis, Zhang survey of 2016, this study continues to evaluate the claim that China has a profession of engineering (as defined by Davis) with a larger, better educated, demographically different pool of two hundred and twenty-nine Chinese engineers, using more specific and deeper questions about “profession”, for example, by adding the investigation of competence (the discipline of engineering)—the perceived knowledge, skill, and judgment of the interviewees as evidence of one aspect of profession. The dataset includes a copy of the questionnaire in Chinese and English, as well as both the entire dataset of surveyed individuals as well as the data from individuals who were deemed to have enough experience in engineering to be included in the final data set analyzed.
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Title: On the Need for Ethical Buying and Selling
Creator: Parker, Robert C.
Date: 2005, 1982-05
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: In 1978 the Center for the Study of the Professions at IIT conducted a survey for the National Association of Purchasing Management to...
Show moreIn 1978 the Center for the Study of the Professions at IIT conducted a survey for the National Association of Purchasing Management to determine the real ethical practices of industrial buyers in the United States. This survey started the Ethical Standards Committee thinking about the current ethical practices in the field, and this paper seeks to discuss the roots of some of these practices questions that arose after reviewing the results of this survey.
CSEP Occasional Papers No. 6, May 1982. Remarks Delivered at the Professional Ethics Luncheon Seminar, Americana Congress Hotel, Chicago, March 23, 1982
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Title: Ownership of Computer Programs
Creator: Snapper, John W.
Date: 2006, 1981-12-09
Publisher: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT
Description: Discusses reasons for against copyrighting computer software programs. Reasons against include the potential for holding back scientific...
Show moreDiscusses reasons for against copyrighting computer software programs. Reasons against include the potential for holding back scientific discoveries. Though the labor that goes into creating computer programs does seem to create property rights, the principle of free thought seems to override this right. The author discusses some of the problems that exist in copyright, trade secret, and patent law and discusses why these laws should be changed to discourage secrecy so they do not interfere with free thought.
Presented at a meeting of the Collegiate Institute for Values and Science, University of Michigan, December 9, 1981
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