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Terms
Examples
Being an
Ethical Surveyor
Dr. Richard Lucas FACS
Information Systems,University of Canberra
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow,
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)
Help (sort of)
at Charles Sturt University
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Challenges
It needs no proof that
neither economic activities
nor any other class of human activities
can rightly
be made independent
of
moral laws.
John Maynard Keynes
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1890
Surveyor
Ethics /Morals
a set of values
for
determining
right and wrong
Terms
from the
Anglo-Norman French
surveiour
Ethics are what differentiates or
creates a profession; without ethics it
becomes a business or service which
is sold at the lowest price.
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Reading (or writing) about the
virtues of fictional characters has
little power to instill those virtues in
us.
Mark Eddy Smith Tolkien’s
Ordinary Virtues
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Moral
Exemplars
Who?
What?
Why?
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Dirk Hartog
Surveyor
Exploring (Dutch)
1616
Courage
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George Washington
Surveyor
Duh!!
(Think apple trees)
1770’s
Truthfulness
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(Gen.) Rufus Putnam
Surveyor
Me (7th Great
Grandfather’s brother’s
son)
1st U. S. Surveyor General
1796 - 1803
Diligence
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Henry David Thoreau
Surveyor
Lazing about.
mid 1800’s
(Dis) obedience,
Simplicity
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William John Wills
Surveyor
Silly walking
mid 1800’s
Courage
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George Goyder
Surveyor
Goyder Line
mid 1860’s
Honesty
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Irene Martin (nee Barclay)
Surveyor
1st female member of
RICS
Patron of the poor
Slum redevelopment
1922 - 1989
Compassion
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Len Beadell
Surveyor
Gunbarrel Highway
The Last Australian Explorer
mid 1900’s
Generosity
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Good Faith
The
What does
Virtues
all Courage
that give us?
(Dis) obedience,
Simplicity
Truthfulness
Diligence
Generosity
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Compassion
Construction Management and Economics (2001) 19, 19-36
A study of quantity surveyors' ethical behaviour
Linda Fan, Christabel Ho, and Vincent Ng
Does not mention
virtue: gets deontology
wrong.
Academics!!
Construction Management and Economics (2001) 19, 481-491
Competencies of professional quantity surveyors: a South
African perspective
RAYMOND NKADO and TERRY MEYER
dedication to the public interest,
conformance to a code of ethics and
the acquisition of a high standard of
expertise.
Our code … should be dictated by
our conception of Christianity and
chivalry, treating Ethics from a
practical point of view or rather as a
practical service rather than a
speculative or abstract one.
The Australian Surveyor, November 1928
Code of Ethics - A Guide to Professional Conduct
J. Wilkes
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Strategic Integration of Surveying Services FIG Working Week 2007 Hong
Kong SAR, China, 13-17 May 2007
Does not
Ethics for Surveyors – what are the problems?
Ashley DABSON, Frances PLIMMER, Sarah KENNEY and Mike WATERS
mention virtue or rights.
More academics!!
Construction Management and Economics (2003) 21, 43–67
Quantity surveyors' background and training, and their ethical
concepts, conceptions and interests considerations
Ho Man-Fong Christabel and Ng Chi-Wai Vincent
It can be
concluded that
the moderating
effects of
background
variables are
contingent upon
the specific
ethical
perception
concerned.
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Ethics problems
1. Difference between
public and private
sectors.
2. Work pressures / role of
employers.
3. Client entertaining.
4. Influence of clients on
ethical behaviour.
Poon, Joanna and Hoxley, Mike 2010, Use of moral theory to
analyse the ethical codes of built environment professional
organisations: A case study of the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors, International Journal of Law in the Built
Environment, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 260-275.
Best account of
what ethics is.
interviewees who have been RICS members for longer and
have more involvement with RICS professional ethics tend
to have stronger opinions. They tend to think virtue ethics
theory is the most appropriate theory to explain professional
ethics.
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What are the problems?
Difference between public and private sectors (more protection in public)
Work pressures / role of employers (role conflict - see Venn diagram - next slide)
Client entertaining (bribery or hospitality?)
Influence of clients on ethical behaviour (pressure to cut corners)
Influence of fees/commission (undue influence or mere incentive)
Bids (late bids, fake bids)
Estate agency (gazzumping and gazundering)
Competency (earn while you learn? Bait and switch)
Job specific issues - stories of experiences (preferential promotion)
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Three
Ethics
http://cartesianproduct.wordpress.com/2012/08/
12/venn-diagrams-for-11-sets/
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Thanks for (almost)
nothing!
What’s a
sheep to do?
*Turkish
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Read:
Virtue Ethics for GIS Professionals by
Nancy J. Obermeyer
in
Research Trends in Geographic Information Science,
2009 pp.27-37 for a great account of virtue.
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Courage
Generosity
Compassion
—
social justice
Diligence
Simplicity
Honesty
Good
Faith
—
Trust
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Case Studies
RICS
http://www.rics.org/au/the-profession/professional-andethical-standards/ethical-case-studies/
and their Decision Tree
Some keywords: may, likely, legal, suggest,
should.
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Courage
What to do
with these virtues?
Honesty
Compassion
add
Trust
Diligence
Dependability
Simplicity
Integrity
Generosity
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welfare and rights (1)
honour and dignity (2)
responsibility and integrity (3)
responsibility and competence
(4)
confidentiality (6)
Institution of
Surveyors
Victoria
Code of Ethics
impartiality (7)
transparency (8)
fairness (9)
http://www.surveying.org.au
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Fédération
Internationale
des
Géomètres
Integrity
Independence
Care and competence
Duty
Ethical Principles
Public interest
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honesty, justice, and courtesy
welfare and rights
iSNSW
Code of
Ethics
trust
honour and dignity
fairness, honesty and in good
faith
consequences
diligence
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The opening of the railway line! — the Governor and all!
With flags and banners down the street, a banquet and a ball.
Hark to 'em at the station now! They're raising cheer on cheer!
'The man who brought the railway through
— our friend the engineer.'
They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering skill!
'Twas my old husband found the pass behind that big red hill.
Before the engineer was born we'd settled with our stock
Behind that great big mountain chain, a line of range and rock.
A line that kept us starving there in weary weeks of drought,
With ne'er a track across the range to let the cattle out.
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"'Twas then, with horses starved and weak and scarcely fit to crawl,
My husband went to find a way across the rocky wall.
He vanished in the wilderness – God knows where he was gone –
He hunted till his food gave out, but still he battled on.
His horses strayed ('twas well they did), they made towards the grass,
And down behind that big red hill they found an easy pass.
"He followed up and blazed the trees, to show the safest track,
Then drew his belt another hole and turned and started back.
His horses died – just one pulled through with nothing much to spare;
God bless the beast that brought him home, the old white Arab mare!
We drove the cattle through the hills, along the new-found way,
And this was our first camping-ground – just where I live today.
"Then others came across the range and built the township here,
And then there came the railway line and this young engineer;
He drove about with tents and traps, a cook to cook his meals,
A bath to wash himself at night, a chain-man at his heels.
And that was all the pluck and skill for which he's cheered and praised,
For after all he took the track, the same my husband blazed!
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"My poor old husband, dead and gone with never a feast nor cheer;
He's buried by the railway line! – I wonder can he hear
When by the very track he marked, and close to where he's laid,
The cattle trains go roaring down the one-in-thirty grade.
I wonder does he hear them pass, and can he see the sight
When, whistling shrill, the fast express goes flaming by at night.
"I think 'twould comfort him to know there's someone left to care;
I'll take some things this very night and hold a banquet there –
The hard old fare we've often shared together, him and me,
Some damper and a bite of beef, a pannikin of tea:
We'll do without the bands and flags, the speeches and the fuss,
We know who ought to get the cheers – and that's enough for us.
"What's that? They wish that I'd come down – the oldest settler here!
Present me to the Governor and that young engineer!
Well, just you tell his Excellence, and put the thing polite,
I'm sorry, but I can't come down – I'm dining out tonight!"
The First Surveyor
Banjo Paterson
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Reading (or writing) about the
virtues of fictional characters has
little power to instill those virtues in
us.
Mark Eddy Smith Tolkien’s
Ordinary Virtues
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When the time comes for someone
to read your virtues
what will they say?
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Thanks for listening
No risk - no life - Do the Right Thing
Richard
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