Ethics in Quality

This on-the-job guide poses essential questions regarding the best action to take when dealing with a company, on the verge of adopting or, which has adopted a course of action that may lead it to act in an "irresponsible" manner -- offering case studies in which readers can compare their answers against those given in the examples. Ethics in Quality answers timely questions such as: What is ethics and why is it important? ... What are ethical violations and what problems do they cause? ... What do professional groups consider ethical and why? ... What are the differences between what professional groups consider ethical? ... What are the responsibilities of engineers and quality professionals? ... What are the boundaries between what is ethical and what is unlawful and vice versa? ... What methods can be used to recognize when ethical decisions are being made? ... and more! Promoting improved decision making, Ethics in Quality serves as must reading for quality and reliability engineers; all engineers engaged in product or service industries; product liability attorneys; and graduate-level courses and professional seminars on ethics and quality control. Book jacket.