Engineers with greater responsibility in management need to be acutely aware of the ethical and governance issues that are pervasive in the design, use and deployment of technology. Technology can be designed, used and deployed in ways that are beneficial to businesses and society, as well as ways that are harmful. This course will introduce students to the classical theories of ethical behaviour, as well as applied ethics, and their relevance and implementations in real-world technology applications faced regularly in the business world today. It aims to stimulate the students? sense of responsibility not just within the organisation, but to the society at large and to humanity in general. At the end of the course, students will be able to more readily recognise and be deeply aware of the various substantive ethical and governance issues pertaining to technology management and be able to apply the techniques that allow them to resolve the conundrums in a manner profitable to the business and ethically acceptable to society
| Academic Units | 3 |
| Exam Schedule | Not Applicable |
| Grade Type | Letter Graded |
| Department Maintaining | REP |
| Prerequisites | Opened only to REP students. Engineers with greater responsibility in management need to be acutely aware of the ethical and governance issues that are pervasive in the design, use and deployment of technology. Technology can be designed, used and deployed in ways that are beneficial to businesses and society, as well as ways that are harmful. This course will introduce students to the classical theories of ethical behaviour, as well as applied ethics, and their relevance and implementations in real-world technology applications faced regularly in the business world today. It aims to stimulate the students? sense of responsibility not just within the organisation, but to the society at large and to humanity in general. At the end of the course, students will be able to more readily recognise and be deeply aware of the various substantive ethical and governance issues pertaining to technology management and be able to apply the techniques that allow them to resolve the conundrums in a manner profitable to the business and ethically acceptable to society |
| Index | Type | Group | Day | Time | Venue | Remark |
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| 80417 | SEM | S | TUE | 1430-1720 | S4-SR19 |
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SEM | S4-SR19
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