Setting norms for professionalism and ethics in Indian IT industry
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 27 November 2010, 05:52 IST
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Bangalore: As the Indian IT industry is getting more competitive and complex in nature, there emerges a trend to base its choice of employees only on educational excellence. Although the firms spend huge amounts on upgrading employees in technology and leadership training, not enough focus is directed on professionalism and ethics. It's here the prominent leaders of Indian IT industry come together to set certain standards for professionalism and ethics among the workforce. At a round table conference organized and monitored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a professional society for the engineering and technology community, the best minds in the Indian IT industry has come together and decided to set up a working group which is authorized to measure and evaluate professionalism and ethics among the IT employees. The round table discussion noted that if we do not start developing professionalism within this industry for the future, we might end up inching towards the value neutral position and then rapidly drop to a value negative position. Addressing a press conference detailing the round table discussion, Narayana Murthy, Founder & Chairman of Infosys Technology said, "India has been making tremendous progress in the last decade. We have become much more competitive, we have enhanced our exports, our GDP growth rate has increased and therefore, the expectations of our people also have gone up. In order to fulfill these expectations, we have to become more productive, trustworthy and should deliver our promises. We have to become a nation that is respected for the professionalism of its professionals. And it's on this background, we have come together on a common platform organized by IET to set some norms on ethics and professionalism." Following the press conference, the famous 'Pinkerton Lecture 2010' was held at the Infosys campus where Professor Steve Furber, ICL Professor Computer Engineering, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK, spoke to a captivated audience.

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