Engineer A Objectivity Failure Advisory
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/14#Engineer_A_Objectivity_Failure_Advisory
Definition
Engineer A failed to provide an objective analysis of project delivery methodologies by recommending the option most favorable to Engineer A's own subsequent employment without disclosing that interest or providing balanced analysis.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Advisory recommendation to City B on project delivery method selection
Balancing with
Advisory Role Integrity Principle
Conflict of Interest Disclosure Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A failed to provide an objective analysis of project delivery methodologies by recommending the option most favorable to Engineer A's own subsequent employment without disclosing that interest or providing balanced analysis.
Confidence
0.87
Interpretation
Objectivity required Engineer A to present all relevant methodologies without bias toward the option that would generate subsequent work for Engineer A.
Tension resolution
The BER found that self-serving partial analysis violated the objectivity obligation; no competing interest justified the departure from objective analysis.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Objectivity'
Matched Ontology Label
Objectivity
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information
objective and truthful
Source text
objective and truthful
TTL
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case14:Engineer_A_Objectivity_Failure_Advisory a proeth:Objectivity,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Objectivity Failure Advisory" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case14:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Advisory recommendation to City B on project delivery method selection" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Advisory Role Integrity Principle",
"Conflict of Interest Disclosure Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A failed to provide an objective analysis of project delivery methodologies by recommending the option most favorable to Engineer A's own subsequent employment without disclosing that interest or providing balanced analysis." ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:interpretation "Objectivity required Engineer A to present all relevant methodologies without bias toward the option that would generate subsequent work for Engineer A." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Delivery Advisor Incomplete" ;
proeth:principleClass "Objectivity" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The BER found that self-serving partial analysis violated the objectivity obligation; no competing interest justified the departure from objective analysis." ;
proeth:textReferences "by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information",
"objective and truthful" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Objectivity'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass <http://proethica.org/ontology/principles#Objectivity> ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Objectivity" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "objective and truthful" ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A failed to provide an objective analysis of project delivery methodologies by recommending the option most favorable to Engineer A's own subsequent employment without disclosing that interest or providing balanced analysis." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A failed to provide an objective analysis of project delivery methodologies by recommending the option most favorable to Engineer A's own subsequent employment without disclosing that interest or providing balanced analysis." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 14 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 14 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
14
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00
First case
14
Generated
2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 14 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 14 Extraction