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ABET Outcome Performa responsibility, ..,, . "i nce Criteria: f-An understanding of professional and ethical 2(b) Your company buys large quantities of parts from various suppliers in a very competitive market sector. As a supplier quality engineer you often get to make critical decisions on which supplier should be used for which parts. A new supplier is very eager to get your company's business. Not only that, but you find they are very eager to provide you personally with many benefits free meals at high class restaurants and free vacation weekends for (supposedly) business meetings and demonstrations, and other more confidential things such as expensive gifts that arrive through the mail, club memberships, and so on. What should you do? [Briefly explain as to why you WILL or will NOT choose each the following four] a) Do not accept any of the gifts that go beyond legitimate business entertaining, b) Report all the gifts etc. to your company, and let them decide whether or not you e) Accept the gifts without telling your company, because you know that your d) Tell other potential suppliers about the gifts, and ask them to provide you even if your company would allow you to accept such gifts. should accept them. professional judgment about the supplier will not be biased by the gifts. personally with similar benefits so you won't be biased in favor of any particular supplier.

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Ans.First we need to understand the duties of quality engineer.The most common and important duty of quality engineer is to maintain quality standards.Quality engineers establish, implement and maintain quality management systems to measure and control quality in the production process. They work with designers to establish quality standards for individual products and set out the standards in documents and processes for the production team.Quality engineers work with members of the supply chain to ensure the quality of raw materials, components or sub-assemblies meets the company’s quality standards. They agree on standards with suppliers and implement inspection processes to monitor incoming material. Engineers monitor suppliers’ quality performance and implement corrective and preventative measures to deal with any quality issues.And other duties with suppliers are :-

For this case

(a) If company is allowing to accept gifts then we can think of accepting in limited quantity because it is not going beyond company ethics but before accepting any gift quality engineer should research about the supplier,his presence in market,quality standards of its products,price,terms and conditions etc.and also he/she must assure a business dealing or meeting before accepting any gift.It also depends upon the company gift policy if a gift is allowed, the gift policy defines the acceptable value and type of gift permissible to employees.

(b) Yes this option is correct quality engineer should report all the gifts to company.This will help in building trust,goodwill and also it can be termed as basic professional and ethical responsibilty for the company

(c) This will be against the professional and ethical responsibilty,accepting gifts without telling the company will be against company values and code of conduct.

(d) This is also wrong intentionally telling other potential suppliers about gifts means greediness which is against ethical and professional responsibilty.If company gets information about this it can suspend or puniish quality engineer as it is against company code of conduct policy.Telling other potential suppliers about gifts is automatically lead to biasness.

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