This study analyses the dilemma of John using Chris MacDonald methodology and provides recommendations on the action that John should have taken in this situation. It discusses the importance of ethics and professionalism in the workplace.
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Running head: ETHICS, PROFESSIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE Ethics, Professionalism and Governance Name of the student Nam of the University Author Note
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1 ETHICS, PROFESSIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE In this present case, the issue is to analyse and resolve the dilemma of John. This study will critically analyse the issue using the Chris MacDonald methodology. This study will further provide a recommendation regarding the action that John should have taken in this situation. It is required that every employee in a company act ethically and work in accordance to a code of conduct. They should stay honest while working within an organisation. In this relation, Chris MacDonald’s methodology can be referred, which states that companies nowadays follow a code of ethics which embodies some issue related ethics documents (Considerations for Writing a Code of Ethics, 2018). Ethical commitments of an organisation provides the matters to expect while a person is conducting business with that organisation. Ethics is the dimension of degree of the social consent to perform the activities in a given culture (ACS Code of Ethics, 2018). It has been provided in the ACS Code of Ethics that the persons involved in a business should be honest while representing knowledge, skills, productsandservices(McDermid,2015).Employeesneedstoenhanceprofessional development of themselves and of the colleagues. The ACS code of Professional Conduct enumerates certain value within the employees of a company that they should give credit to others when they are using any work done by others. They should refrain from making an attempt to enhance their own reputation at the expense of other’s reputation. This code further provides that, employees should accept only those work that they believe they are capable to perform, and should not feel hesitated to obtain any additional expertise from appropriate individual where required (Leicester, 2016). They are not expected to represent the work of others claiming it to be his or her. They should always give proper credit for a work which they have obtained from his co-worker and used. The programming company for which John used to work, had a policy of writing and publishing their own work in the professional journals. This practice implies that the worker
2 ETHICS, PROFESSIONALISM AND GOVERNANCE should work with honesty and give due credit for a taking a work of others. In this case, it was required that John should have disclosed the fact that he had used the code in his program that one of his co-workers had given him. Every employees are expected to behave with honesty and John while using the code was expected to give credit about it to his co- worker. By not giving it a mention in his documentation, he had breached the provision of ACS code of ethics and ACS code of professional conduct (ACS Code of Professional Conduct, 2014). From the aforesaid discussion, it can be recommended to John that he should have given proper credit of the segment of code given by the co-worker that he had used in his documentation.Whenthecompanyhasexpresslyprovidedthattheprogrammersare encouraged to provide their own work and publish the algorithm they have created in the professional journals, John should have asked and taken permission from the manager, before using any code that is given or used by others. John used the segment of code without telling and giving any mention about it to anyone, which goes directly against the policy of their company and ACS code of ethics and professional conduct.
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