DP6
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/106#DP6
Properties
Instance of
Decision Point Id
DP6
Decision question
Does the ethical permissibility of Engineer A accepting employment at Company Y depend on Company Y's hiring motivation — specifically, whether Company Y recruited Engineer A primarily for her general expertise or primarily for the competitive intelligence value of her government-acquired knowledge of Company X's design strategies?
Focus
Whether the ethical permissibility of Engineer A's employment transition to Company Y is altered when Company Y's hiring motivation is explicitly or primarily the competitive intelligence value of Engineer A's prior government access to Company X's design submissions, rather than her general engineering expertise.
Option1
Decline the position at Company Y if Engineer A has reasonable grounds to believe that the competitive intelligence value of her government-acquired knowledge of Company X's design strategies was a primary or explicit factor in Company Y's hiring decision, treating the motivational dimension of the recruitment as a threshold condition that transforms an otherwise permissible transition into an ethically impermissible one
Option2
Accept the position at Company Y regardless of hiring motivation, on the grounds that Engineer A's individual confidentiality maintenance obligation is the operative ethical constraint and that Company Y's internal motivations — which Engineer A cannot fully verify or control — do not alter the substance of what Engineer A is personally required to do or refrain from doing
Option3
Accept the position at Company Y but require Company Y to provide written confirmation — before acceptance — that Engineer A's engagement is predicated on her general engineering expertise and that no assignment will be made that exploits her prior regulatory access to Company X's submissions, treating this written assurance as a necessary condition for the employment transition to remain ethically permissible
Role
Engineer A
TTL
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case106:DP6 a proeth-cases:DecisionPoint,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "DP6" ;
proeth:decisionPointId "DP6" ;
proeth:decisionQuestion "Does the ethical permissibility of Engineer A accepting employment at Company Y depend on Company Y's hiring motivation — specifically, whether Company Y recruited Engineer A primarily for her general expertise or primarily for the competitive intelligence value of her government-acquired knowledge of Company X's design strategies?" ;
proeth:focus "Whether the ethical permissibility of Engineer A's employment transition to Company Y is altered when Company Y's hiring motivation is explicitly or primarily the competitive intelligence value of Engineer A's prior government access to Company X's design submissions, rather than her general engineering expertise." ;
proeth:option1 "Decline the position at Company Y if Engineer A has reasonable grounds to believe that the competitive intelligence value of her government-acquired knowledge of Company X's design strategies was a primary or explicit factor in Company Y's hiring decision, treating the motivational dimension of the recruitment as a threshold condition that transforms an otherwise permissible transition into an ethically impermissible one" ;
proeth:option2 "Accept the position at Company Y regardless of hiring motivation, on the grounds that Engineer A's individual confidentiality maintenance obligation is the operative ethical constraint and that Company Y's internal motivations — which Engineer A cannot fully verify or control — do not alter the substance of what Engineer A is personally required to do or refrain from doing" ;
proeth:option3 "Accept the position at Company Y but require Company Y to provide written confirmation — before acceptance — that Engineer A's engagement is predicated on her general engineering expertise and that no assignment will be made that exploits her prior regulatory access to Company X's submissions, treating this written assurance as a necessary condition for the employment transition to remain ethically permissible" ;
proeth:roleLabel "Engineer A" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T01:11:27.595165"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 106 Extraction" .
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2026-02-28T01:11:27.595165
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ProEthica Case 106 Extraction