This presentation was made for the Engineering Students of FISAT, Ernakulam, Kerala.

2. The Mythical Riddle
•The question which Sphinx
asked to Oedipus in the
mythical riddle
•“If you want to pass this point
alive, you must answer my
riddle:
•What goes on four feet in the
morning, two feet at noon,
and three feet in the evening?
•Human Beings

3. Engineering Ethics
• Engineering – noun
• Planning and bringing out something
• The first and foremost Engineers of Ethics are ‘Teachers’
• The way teachers preached & practiced Organizational
Ethical Behavior always stays with students of all
professions.
• Engineering – adjective
• Ethics specific to Engineers
• Ethical behavior of/for the professionals in Engineering
Organization

4. What is OB? [Moorhead & Griffin]
• Organizational behavior (OB) or organizational
behavior is the: "study of human
behavior in organizational settings, the interface between
human behavior and the organization, and the organization
itself".
• Moorhead, G., & Griffin, R. W. (1995). Organizational behavior: Managing people and organizations (5th edition).
Boston. Houghton Mifflin, (p.4)

5. Three categories – OB | Wagner & Hollenbeck
•OB research can be categorized in at least three
ways:
•individuals in organizations (micro-level)
•work groups (meso-level)
•how organizations behave (macro-level)
• Management which is the process of stated Objectives, Planning, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, and
Staffing to achieve stated (formalized) objectives. Wagner, J. A., & Hollenbeck, J. R. (2010). Organizational
behavior: Securing competitive advantage. New York: Routledge.

6. The Functions of the Executives
• Chester Barnard recognized that individuals behave
differently when acting in their organizational role than
when acting separately from the organization.
• Barnard, Chester I. (1938). The Functions of the Executive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press. OCLC 555075.
• Organizational behavior researchers study the behavior of
individuals primarily in their organizational roles. One of
the main goals of organizational behavior research is "to
revitalize organizational theory and develop a better
conceptualization of organizational life".
• Simms, L.M., Price, S.A., & Ervin, N.E. (1994). The professional practice of nursing
administration. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers. (p. 121)

7. Let us see the responses of the participants
• Ethics & Morality
• Legality
• “…. But it is legal….”
• “… all is fair in profit and loss…”
• “Success matters.”

8. Tigers

9. Sherni

10. Anthropocene

11. Don’t Look Up

13. Real life Alluri Sitaram & Bheema

14. AI &
Unconscious
Biases

15. • New Challenges . . .
•The Artificial Intelligence & the Unconscious
Bias
•Kirti Sharma, Robin Hauser, Timnit Gebru &
Joy Buolamwini
•Can we protect AI from human biases?
•What about civil rights if decisions
are based under the guise of
machine neutrality?

17. AI & Driverless Car
•The Question of Morality -
http://moralmachine.mit.edu/
•While the literacy project for making humans
humane is yet not over, the teachers have new
challenges to make robots humane!

18. The Ethical
Dilemma
of
Designer
Babies /
GM Kids

20. Engineers think differently!
They are here to solve problems.

21. The Kitchens of the Future – Smark Kitchens

22. •Ad – Men share the load of household work
•Make machines to reduce everybody’s work
•Washing Machine, Oven, Dish washer, Digital
Kitchen etc.

24. Harvard Business Review | Design Ethical Organization
•Ethics not by BELIEF but by DESIGN
• Explicit values.
• Thoughts during judgment.
• Incentives.
• Cultural norms.
•Putting Ethical Design into Practice
• Hiring.
• Valuation.
• Compensation.

25. Conclusion
• Teacher’s organizational behavior plays vital role in engineering ethics
• The future engineers have unprecedented ethical challenges…
• Climate Change
• Water, Land and Forests of Aboriginals – Huge machines!
• GM – Human Engineering
• AI - Social Engineering
• Harvard Business Review’s Designing Ethical Organization
• In the Greek myth, the answer Oedipus gave to Sphinx was –
• Human Being

26. • Privacy conscious people are worried about digital devices
being hacked so as to steal information or distort data or ask
for ransom to restore data.
• Politically conscious people are worried about Electronic Voting
Machines being hacked so as to steal democratic power from
the people through programmed chip in EVM.
• What people are not conscious is about how humans are
hacked by various devices of social engineering, depth
psychology and cognitive biases!
• How easy it is to hack emotionally susceptible, untutored and
unripe human mind!
• How easy it is to hack the human mind which is deeply religious
and hence ready to believe any sort of myth as truth!
• How easy it is to hack the nationalistic human mind just by
phrases like 'Nation First' or sloganeering like 'Ask not what
your nation has done for you. Ask what you have done for your
nation'.
• How easy it is to hack the human mind which is so deeply
inclined towards 'mother' that whenever anybody uses Mother
as metaphor of language or land, s/he is ready to blow away in
the wind of rhetorical arguments!
• Our concern is not the hacking of machines.
• Our concern is the hacking of the humans.

27. सा विद्या या विमुक्तये ।
तमसो मा ज्योततर्गमय ।
Reinventing Human Being.