Professional Environments - Assignment

Assignment Cover Sheet
Subject Name: Professional Environments
Assignment Name/Number: Ethics, Professionalism and Governance (code 1-6 of ACS
code of ethics used).
Date of Submission: 28/10/2018
Participant Name: Jithendra Vepareddygari
ACS Member Number: 4167171
Email Address: [e-mail]

Declaration:
I declare that the assignment is based on my own work and that all material previously
written or published in any source by any other person has been duly acknowledged in the
assignment. I have not submitted this work, or a significant part thereof, previously as part of
any academic program. In submitting this assignment I give ACS permission to copy for
assessment purposes only.
Case Study 2
Maureen works in a large government state department dealing with drug and alcohol abuse.
The agency administers programs for individuals with drug and alcohol problems, and
maintains a huge database of information on the clients who use these services. Some of the
data files contain the names and current addresses of clients.
Maureen has been asked to take a look at the track records of the treatment programs. She is
to put together a report that contains the number of clients seen in each program each month
for the past five years: length of each client’s treatment, number of clients who return after
completion of a program, criminal histories of clients, and so on. In order to put together this
report, Maureen has been given access to all files in the agency’s main server. After
assembling the data into a file that includes the clients’ names, she downloads the file to her
office computer.

Under pressure to get the report finished by the deadline, Maureen decides she will have to
work at home over the weekend in order to finish on time. She copies the file to a USB and
takes it home. After finishing the report, she leaves the USB at home and forgets about it.
Maureen being an ICT professional will take a decision by explaining the Australian ethics
and standards to CEO using Chris Macdonald’s framework. There are eight steps which
needs to be followed for the use of this framework. They include recognizing the moral
dimensions, the interested parties, involved principles and values, course of action, benefits
and burdens, analogous cases, compliance with organization rules, discussion with others and
whether the decision has been taken with confidence.