ACS Assignment On Ethical Dilemma 2022

Running head: ACS ASSIGNMENT ON ETHICAL DILEMMA
ACS Assignment on Ethical Dilemma
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

ACS ASSIGNMENT ON ETHICAL DILEMMA1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
3 values from the ACS Code of Ethics and up to 5 clauses from the ACS Code of
Professional Conduct relevant in deciding how to resolve the situation...............................2
Relevant Australian legislation that applies to this scenario..................................................3
Analysis, discussion and recommendations applicable to the Chris MacDonald's
methodology...........................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Code of conduct for extremely important for every professional and it is also
important that a standardized code of conduct is also followed. This is an established fact that
moral values behind every decision making is followed before the conduct is made
(Burmeister 2017). The following case study about Christina, who is a programmer in a
software development company with aggressive market setup and software release dates and
Christina's code of conduct within the organisation would be analysed with the help of Chris
McDonald's method of ethical conduct.
3 values from the ACS Code of Ethics and up to 5 clauses from the ACS Code of
Professional Conduct relevant in deciding how to resolve the situation
The situation under which Christina is right now in requires her to provide false
reports to be presented to the clients about testing of a software which is still not done.
According to the ACS ethical code of conduct, there are several points at which this action is
not at all justified ethically.
Following would be representation of the values and clauses from the ACS codes of
professional conduct that will decide how the situation could have been resolved:
1. The ACS code of professional conduct states that there should be primacy of the
public interest, which has been followed so that thinking about the clients first the testing
would have been completed first before representing the software to the clients (Resnik and
Elliott 2016).
2. Honesty in the professional conduct is one of the primary clauses that ethical
values should contain. If the organisation was honest enough they would not ask Christina to
represent the fault report about the testing when it was not yet completed.