Honesty in Professional Representations Violated by Engineer B Brochure
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Violated_by_Engineer_B_Brochure
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Engineer B's Clients Prospective Engineering Services Client Relying on Firm Brochure
Balancing with
Proactive Marketing Material Accuracy Assurance Obligation
Concrete expression
Engineer B's continued distribution of a brochure listing Engineer A as a key employee after Engineer A's actual termination violates the fundamental professional obligation of honesty by presenting a false picture of the firm's personnel to prospective clients.
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Interpretation
Honesty in professional representations requires that marketing materials accurately reflect the firm's current capabilities and personnel; Engineer B's post-termination brochure use is a straightforward honesty violation.
Invoked by
Engineer B Brochure-Misrepresenting Terminating Employer Engineer
Tension resolution
No competing principle justifies the dishonesty; the honesty obligation is clear and unambiguous in this context.
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees, and continued to use the previously printed brochure with Engineer A's name in it well after Engineer B did in fact terminate Engineer A.
Text references
continued to use the previously printed brochure with Engineer A's name in it well after Engineer B did in fact terminate Engineer A.
TTL
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case171:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Violated_by_Engineer_B_Brochure a proeth:Honesty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Honesty in Professional Representations Violated by Engineer B Brochure" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer B's Clients Prospective Engineering Services Client Relying on Firm Brochure" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Proactive Marketing Material Accuracy Assurance Obligation" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer B's continued distribution of a brochure listing Engineer A as a key employee after Engineer A's actual termination violates the fundamental professional obligation of honesty by presenting a false picture of the firm's personnel to prospective clients." ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Honesty in professional representations requires that marketing materials accurately reflect the firm's current capabilities and personnel; Engineer B's post-termination brochure use is a straightforward honesty violation." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer B Brochure-Misrepresenting Terminating Employer Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Honesty" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees, and continued to use the previously printed brochure with Engineer A's name in it well after Engineer B did in fact terminate Engineer A." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "No competing principle justifies the dishonesty; the honesty obligation is clear and unambiguous in this context." ;
proeth:textreferences "continued to use the previously printed brochure with Engineer A's name in it well after Engineer B did in fact terminate Engineer A." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.274227"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 171 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
171
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00
First case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00
Attributed to
Case 171 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:51:15.274227
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction