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Ethics Policy

The company that I would like to work for is PwC, which is a multinational. It is known all over the world for being an excellent employer. Being a Software engineer, it will help me in furthering my professional career. Also, all its business dealings are carried out in an ethical manner, as it has an existing policy on ethics. PwC is known as an organization, which engages in services of a professional nature. In turn, it ensures that the clients it deals with are improved, managed, and built upon, for success. PwC ensures that as part of its business processes, it is consistent, trustworthy as well as transparent. The behaviors of employees are governed by laws, internal policies, regulations and professional standards. PwC has an ethical code of conduct, which must be adhered to, by all its firms and people. PwC also ensures that before action is taken by any party, it must be evaluated beforehand. The code seeks to ensure that issues of a territorial nature are addressed (Martin & Schinzinger, 1996. 67).

The other policy, which was obtained, was that of the General Motors Company. It has established its own ethics policy, which is in form of a code. According to the General Motors policy, it ensures that business dealings are carried out ethically, as well as with integrity. All times, the parties, which are related to General Motors, should ensure that ethical standards of an ethical nature are followed. After reviewing the two polices based upon ethics, it seems that the PwC one is better (Martin & Schinzinger, 1996. 89). This is because the document is large and addresses all areas, which the company deals with. There is a lot of valuable information in the General Motors and PwC ethics policies. The PwC ethics policy addresses matters related to types of ethical breaches and repercussions. On the other hand, the General Motors policy is not extremely detailed.

A code of conduct exists in the IEEE, which is essential to any engineer. The professional society believes that it is extremely necessary to ensure that ethical standards of the highest nature are followed. According to them, it is an obligation based upon the morality, which human beings have. There are ten ethical codes, which have been established by IEEE. PwC matches up to every one of them in every way possible. For example, IEEE makes sure that every employee in an organization does not accept bribery and at PwC, this code is followed strictly. At General Motors, there have been cases whereby, some employees have been engaged in bribery acts. Professional societies are extremely beneficial in any sector as they govern behaviors of employees in various firms (Martin & Schinzinger, 1996. 90).

There are various ethical theories, which govern the existing Code of Conduct at the two companies. At PwC, there is mostly the utilitarianism action theory. According to this theory, so long as many people benefit, thus good has been created. This means that depending on what effect occurs to a person, an action is unethical or ethical. In contrast, the General Motors ethical theory is based upon actions, which are deontological. Depending on the intentions of an individual, an issue can be unethical or ethical. This means that consequences are not judged but rather the action (Martin & Schinzinger, 1996. 243). The professional society, which General Motors follows, is IEEE while that by PwC is NSPE. I conclude by stating that the ethics policy at PwC is the best when compared to that of General Motors.

Work Cited

Martin, Mike. & Schinzinger, Ronald. Ethics in Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill Science, 1996.Print.