1. Acting on professional commitments to the public is more effective to serve a company than just following company orders. 2. Loyalty to employers may not mean obeying one’s immediate supervisor. 3. Professional obligations to both an employer and to the public might strengthen rather than contradict each other.
Agency-Loyalty - Engineers are hired to do their duties. - Hence obligated to employers within proper limits Identification-Loyalty Obligatory on two conditions; 1. When some important goals are met by and through a group in which the engineers participate 2. When employees are treated fairly, receiving the share of benefits and burdens. But clearly, identification-loyalty is a virtue and not strictly an obligation.
Agency-Loyalty - Fulfill one’s contractual duties to an employer. - Duties are particular tasks for which one is paid - Co-operating with colleagues - Following legitimate authority within the organization. Identification-Loyalty: - It has to do with attitudes, emotions and a sense of personal identity. - Seeks to meet one’s moral duties with personal attachment and affirmation. - It is against detesting their employers and companies, and do work reluctantly and horribly (this is construed as disloyalty) This means - Avoid conflicts of interest, - Inform employers of any possible conflicts of interest, - Protect confidential information, - Be honest in making estimates, - Admit one’s errors, etc.