Ethical Decision Making Case Study

This assignment involves a scenario where a recruitment manager is faced with an ethical dilemma at their workplace. The manager must decide whether to comply with the company's request to make discriminatory notes about employees or adhere to the Australian Computer Society's (ACS) code of ethics and professional conduct. The case study requires analysis of the relevant ACS codes, consideration of the potential consequences of each course of action, and a decision based on ethical principles.

Running Head: ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
Ethical decision making
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Table of Contents
The Moral Dimension-.................................................................................................................................3
Assessing the parties...................................................................................................................................3
The Values involved in the moral dimension...............................................................................................3
Weighing the Burdens and the Benefits......................................................................................................3
Adhering to Legal and Organizational rules.................................................................................................4
Discussion....................................................................................................................................................4

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The Moral Dimension-
In this given scenario ‘Jobs for you’ employment agency had faced allegations from
employees for wrongful termination of employees. ‘Jobs For You’ however rejected the claims of
the employees and stated in their defense that the employees had been irresponsible and
negligent. ‘Jobs For You’ produced records substantiating their claims that the reason of
termination of employee was fair and that employees had been terminated due to their
negligence and irresponsibility. However it was feared by the agency that the present
employees might accuse the agency of maintaining records of them. The act of maintaining
records might seem discriminatory or rude to the employees. Therefore the management of the
agency told their recruitment manager to make indirect discriminatory notes about the
employees so that same could be used in the court as evidence.
Assessing the parties
In this scenario the interested parties are the management of ‘Jobs For You’ Agency and
Stella, the recruitment manager
The Values involved in the moral dimension
In accordance with the ethical and moral guidelines as contained in the Australian
Computer Society code of ethics the aforementioned moral dilemma could be solved. For the
purpose of solving the moral dilemma the relevant codes to be taken into consideration are:
 Honesty- According to ACS code of ethics honesty is to be maintained by every member
of the computer society while conducting their professional duties (Acs.org.au 2018).
 Primacy of Public Interest- Every member of the society must place the public interest on
highest priority
 Professionalism- Professionalism is to be maintained by every member of the computer
society for upholding integrity of the society as well as the individuals
The code of professional conduct provides the guidelines for performing the duties assigned
to the members of Australian Computer Society (Acs.org.au 2018). This code has to be strictly
followed in every instance. The following codes are of significant relevance to the chosen case
study:
 Code 3.c- Professional and personal opinions are to be differentiated
 Code 3.e- Not to form judgments or professional based on insufficient and limited
knowledge
 Code 1g- Confidentiality and Privacy of information must be maintained
 Code 6e: Never indulging or manipulating another member to indulge in any activity
which would breach any of the codes of professional conduct.
 Code 1.a: All the members of the computer society must consider the interest of the
parties who might be affected by the work of such member.
Weighing the Burdens and the Benefits
In the given scenario Stella is the recruitment manager, therefore she has an obligation
to comply with the ACS codes of Ethics. However she is an employee of Jobs for You and thus
she has an obligation to uphold the benefit of her employer.

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Adhering to Legal and Organizational rules
The Limited Liability Act 2008 is relevant to this given case study (Legislation.gov.au
2018).
Discussion
After discussing the facts of this case t can be stated that Stella has a moral and ethical
duty of complying with the ACS Code of Ethics and Code of moral conduct. In accordance with
the ACS code of ethics and professional conduct it can be stated that she must refrain from
making discriminatory notes about employees. If she does not do so, it would result in violation
of the relevant aforementioned Australian Legislation.
Decision
Thus after discussing the facts of the chosen case study and applying the provisions as
provided in the Code of Professional conduct it is to be stated that Stella is not required to
discriminatory notes of employees if she feels that it is misrepresentation of the facts.

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Reference List:
Acs.org.au. (2018). [online] Available at: https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-
documents/Code-of-Ethics.pdf [Accessed 16 Mar. 2018].
Retrieved From- https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-documents/Code-of-Ethics.pdf
Acs.org.au. (2018). [online] Available at: https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/rules-and-
regulations/Code-of-Professional-Conduct_v2.1.pdf [Accessed 16 Mar. 2018].
Retrieved From- https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/rules-and-regulations/Code-of-
Professional-Conduct_v2.1.pdf
Legislation.gov.au. (2018). Law of Negligence and Limitation of Liability Act 2008 (NI). [online]
Available at: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016Q00058 [Accessed 16 Mar. 2018].
Retrieved From- https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016Q00058