Ethical Issues

ETHICAL ISSUES

Ethics – refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices to guide their behaviors.

Code of ethics – collection of principles that are intended to guide decision making by members of organization.

e.g: the Association for Computing Machinery(www.acm.org)

FUNDAMENTAL TENETS

-Responsibility : you accept the consequences of your decision & action

-Accountability : determination of who is responsible for action that were taken

-Liability : legal concept that individuals have right to recover the damages done to them

All employess have a responsibility to encourage ethical uses of information & information technology.

Most of all of the business decisions you will face at work will have an ethical dimension.

A FRAMEWORK FOR ETHICAL ISSUES

PRIVACY ISSUES

-Involve collecting, storing, and disseminiating information about individuals

ACCURACY ISSUES

-Involve the authenticity, fidelity and acurary of information that is collected and processed

PROPERTY ISSUES

-Involve the ownership and value of information

ACCESSIBILITY

-Revolve around who should have access to information and wether they should have to pay for this access