Ethical Issue Faced in an IT Company: A Case Analysis

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Executive Summary
The aim of the report is to discuss the ethical issue faced in an organisation. The ethical issue
faced here in a small company. The issues of the company faced is analysed by the two
different standards mainly DET and ACS. The both analysis gives us a clear picture with
details mentioned in precise. The DET discussed the case scenario while the ACS discussed
the lagging in the part of professionalism. The report concluded with the comparison of the
facts that was given by the analysis section and the best option to resolve the problem

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
DET Technique of Analysis.......................................................................................................4
What is going on?...................................................................................................................4
What are the issues?...............................................................................................................5
Who are affected?..................................................................................................................5
What are the ethical issues and implications in this case?.....................................................5
Implications............................................................................................................................6
What could be done?..............................................................................................................6
ACS Analysis.........................................................................................................................7
Primacy of the Public Interest:...............................................................................................7
Enhancement of Quality of Life.............................................................................................8
Honesty..................................................................................................................................8
Competence............................................................................................................................9
Professional development....................................................................................................10
Professionalism....................................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
An industry is known by the ethics it keeps. The better behaviour of the employee, the
better will be the growth of the organisation. The set of norms, rules that are followed in an
organization is called ethics (Mather and Cummings 2015). This minimize the behavioural
difference, set up a proper functioning plan for the company by helping in decision making.
The set of these rules are collectively known as code of ethics. There are different code of
ethics that are followed on the basis of the kind of industry people work in
The IT industry have has ethics code for computer, network as well as behavioural.
The ethical issue could be participatory, accessibility, hyborg involvement etc. There could
be ethical issue faced by the organization in breaking those norms or there could be situation
of ethical dilemma (Myers and Venable 2014). This could hamper the career growth of an
employee or the organization in different ways. This is the case of the ethical issue has been
faced under an IT company.
This is the case analysis of the ethical issue that was reported in a small software
company. The name of the company is kept anonymous because of the confidentiality. The
case focuses on the ethical issue that was faced by one of the software engineers working
under this IT firm. In order to understand the case, the case is being analysed by DET and
ACS techniques of understanding ethical issues (Koppman, Mattarelli and Gupta 2016). The
DET will give the overall view of the case and the ACS will help us to understand the lagging
that was caused regarding which professional negligence. The overall analysis gives us idea
how to prevent an ethical issue in an organization to prevent damage that could affect the
individuals or the organization.