Promoting Sustainability: Ethical Considerations in Engineering Work

This essay explores the critical role of promoting sustainability as an ethical imperative within the engineering profession, referencing several peer-reviewed articles to highlight key aspects of this issue. It examines the constraints faced in implementing sustainable practices, the relationship between stakeholder theory and sustainability management, and the importance of sustainability in project management. The essay also discusses sustainable community rating tools in Australia and analyzes the code of conduct in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) practice, recommending improvements to promote sustainability in the ICT industry. The central theme revolves around integrating sustainability into engineering practices through ethical considerations and adherence to codes of conduct, emphasizing the need for engineers to consider the long-term impact of their work on society and the environment. Desklib provides access to this essay and a wealth of other study materials for students.

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Promote Sustainability (Ethical Practice)
Chitchyan, R., Becker, C., Betz, S., Duboc, L., Penzenstadler, B., Seyff, N. and Venters, C.C.,
2016, May. Sustainability design in requirements engineering: state of practice. In Proceedings
of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion (pp. 533-542). ACM.
Promoting sustainability is a major issue nowadays, but the application of sustainability
in the engineering profession has not been highlighted yet. This peer reviewed journal has
contributed the major information about constrains that can arise while promoting the
sustainability in the profession. Like other articles, the reads can get a view of the requirements
for promotion of sustainability and the engineer’s perception towards sustainability. The other
articles have not analyzed the reasons of obstacles of promoting sustainability; however this
paper has conducted a qualitative research to find out those reasons.
Hörisch, J., Freeman, R.E. and Schaltegger, S., 2014. Applying stakeholder theory in
sustainability management: Links, similarities, dissimilarities, and a conceptual
framework. Organization & Environment, 27(4), pp.328-346.
This article has discussed about the relationship between the promotion of sustainability
and stakeholder’s theory. It has developed a concept on the similarities, dissimilarities and the
links between the sustainability and the stakeholder’s theory. This peer reviewed journal has
contributed the in the development of the framework that can be applicable of imposing the
stakeholder’s theory in sustainability management. Like the first article in the paper , this report
has discussed the sustainability in the code of ethics and its importance. The additional
information, the readers can get knowing the factors, necessary to maintain stakeholder’s

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relationship for maintaining sustainability and development of the frame work for the promotion
of sustainability.
Martens, M.L. and Carvalho, M.M., 2017. Key factors of sustainability in project management
context: A survey exploring the project managers' perspective. International Journal of Project
Management, 35(6), pp.1084-1102.
This article has discussed the importance of promoting sustainability in project. In this
article the different variables on the sustainability had identified in the scope of project
management. The project management and the role of sustainability have been discussed in
various articles. The difference that can be found in this article is that, this article has focused on
the interactions of sustainability and the elements of project management. This peer reviewed
journal has identified the key sustainable aspects in the project management and their roles from
the project manager’s perspective. The findings from the analysis are the four factors that
influences on the interaction.
Xia, B., Chen, Q., Skitmore, M., Zuo, J. and Li, M., 2015. Comparison of sustainable community
rating tools in Australia. Journal of Cleaner Production, 109, pp.84-91.
The three tools for sustainable community rating has been discussed in this article. Apart
from that the strengths and weakness of these tools has discussed in this article. The community
rating tools help in the decision making of the sustainable urban development in Australia. Like
other journals discussing about the sustainability, this article has also discussed the importance of
the sustainability in the code of ethics. The main difference that can be seen in this article with
the other ones is it has mentioned the importance of sustainability tools and has done a
comparative study between these tools. This is a quality article which has provided a way of

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better understanding of the rating tools in developing the sustainable community and along with
their relationship with the stakeholders.
Burmeister, O.K., 2017. Professional ethics in the information age. Journal of Information,
Communication and Ethics in Society, 15(4), pp.348-356.
This article has discussed the role of code of conducts along with the promotion of
sustainability in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) practice. The similarity
between this paper and the other mentioned articles above is the discussion about the importance
of sustainability in different aspects of the engineering practice. However, this paper has
discussed the sustainability from different aspect. The main objective of this article is critical
analysis of the code of conduct in the ICT practice. This paper contributes by recommending the
possible improvements , those can be implemented to promote sustainability in the ICT industry.