Answer to Question #175099 in Management for ceseljoy maturan

Question

Ms. B (P.Eng) works as an engineer at a subsidiary company that supplies engine components and other parts for EZee Rider Motorcycle Company. The division where Ms. B works is responsible for carrying out performance testing and quality control on all parts to ensure that they meet the requirements and allowable tolerances specified by EZee Rider. While testing a new part, Ms. B notices that none of the samples meet all of the required performance benchmarks. Ms. B brings the performance results to the attention of her supervisor who is also a licensed engineer. After reviewing the test results the supervisor tells Ms. B that this particular part is not as important to the overall performance of EZee Rider's engine as some of the other component parts that have already passed the compliance tests. Ms. B is instructed by the supervisor to omit the poor results on this particular part from her compliance report. What should Ms. B do?

Answer 1

Ms. B works in the division that is responsible for carrying out quality control and performance testing on all parts in order to ascertain that they meet allowable tolerances and requirements specified. Since Ms. B is a professional engineer she should ensure that she does not violate the engineering professional code of conduct and ethics. Since it would be professionally unethical and against the code of conduct to omit poor results for some of the components in the report of compliance. Additionally, by omitting poor results of some of the components, it will result in the dropped performance of Ezee Rider’s Engine. Also, since she is a member of the quality assurance team, rejecting to omit the poor results will help the team in achieving its goal. Hence Ms. B should not omit the poor results of some of the parts.