Analysis of Ethical Issues with Respect to ACS Code of Professional Conduct

Running head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS
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GRANT PROPOSAL
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Analysis of ethical issues with respect to ACS code of professional conduct:..........................2
Ethical issues:.........................................................................................................................2
Analysis of ethical issues.......................................................................................................3
Recommendation:......................................................................................................................5

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GRANT PROPOSAL
Analysis of ethical issues with respect to ACS code of professional conduct:
Ethical issues:
The manager has asked the project director to deliver the product without encryption
so that they can met the deadline as decided in the contract. The manager try to justify his
decision with the fact that customer satisfaction as well as customer retention is important for
any business. Hence he cannot allow the project director to delay the delivery of the product
as according to him delivering the product within time is much more important than
reviewing the quality of the product as the production has already delayed. He also highlights
that the CIA have to deliver the Will’s project and if this is not done chances are that Will’s
will not consider the company next time for further order.
However the project director has some different opinion as he thinks that if the
software is delivered without integrating encryption, it will compromise the security of the
data. Hence he is not in favour of delivering the software without encryption just to deliver in
it time as this is not ethically permitted. He also specifies that Jason, the senior developer
strongly feels that encryption has a vital role to play in the system security of the Will’s
project. So it is difficult for him to agree with the manager and what he suggest for the
developer team. In response to that the manager then suggest that although there is a chance
of system being hacked without encryption, but that chances are very less. Even the
encryption is possible to integrate with the system later with software updates. Hence, they
should take this opportunity as it will only satisfy the customer, Greg and his team members
will get bonus and incentives for completing the project and delivering it to the customer
within time. Hence according to the manager Greg, the project director should follow what he
suggest in this context.