ENGINEERING AND EROSION OF TRUST

作者: David A. Bella

DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928(1987)113:2(117)

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摘要: Engineering is a social enterprise. What makes this enterprise worthy of public trust? A model developed to explain how disciplinary communities within engineering evolve credible bodies knowledge. Such knowledge constitute the “expertise” professionals. If respect for such lost, then expertise individual professionals will also be lost. Professional thus depends upon integrity those processes through which develop. are deficient, trustworthiness profession erode. This paper describes erosion trust can occur and what corrective actions might taken.

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