Information Technology Ethics .

This essay discusses the ethical dilemma scenario of “Early Launch” in the field of Information Technology Ethics. Proper analysis as well as recommendation will also be provided in the essay.

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Introduction
The particular field of ethics is responsible for resolving all types of questions related
to human morality by providing proper definition of the ideas like good or bad, virtue or vice,
correct or wrong as well as justice or crime. The principles and theories are required to
understand the ethical behaviour of that particular person (Moor, 2017). Any situation or any
individual could be judged on the basis of the morality. However, there is yet another
effective method to judge the situation that whether it is ethical or not. Any situation could be
easily judged with the help of ACS or Australian Computer Society Code of Professional
Conduct. This essay describes about the ethical dilemma scenario of “Early Launch”. Proper
analysis as well as recommendation will also be provided in the essay.
Discussion
Identification of Ethical Issue in the Case Study
The project manager Gregg is going through major ethical dilemma when the program
director has mentioned about the early launch of project even before encryption (Scenario 3:
Early Launch. 2018). The CIA of the organization wants them to deliver this particular
project a month early than the deadline for getting more projects from the client. Due to the
higher value of this Willis project, the CEO is pressurizing each of them. However, Gregg is
not ready for it and wants to complete the encryption. The major ethical issue for the above
mentioned scenario is that Willis project will be launched even before encryption (Lacan,
2013). The respective client would be undergoing a main issue for this reason and the entire
project will crash.

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Analysis of Ethical Issue in Respect to Australian Computer Society Code of
Professional Conduct
ACS Code of Professional Conduct comprises of six distinctive and specified ethical
codes that are important and should be followed by each and every professional (Dewey,
2016). These six distinctive codes of conduct would be professionalism, the primacy of the
public interest, honesty, competence, the enhancement of quality of life and professional
development. This specific ethical scenario of Early Launch could be easily judged on the
basis of these six professional codes of conduct. The description of this analysis is given
below:
i) The Primacy of the Public Interest: The first code is the primacy of the public
interest, which refers to the factor any specific person must place the interests of the public
above the interests of the business, sectional and personal reasons. However, in the case study
of Early Launch, the organizational CEO as well as the program director has considered their
business and personal profits or interests on top priorities and thus they could be termed as
unethical.
ii) The Enhancement of Quality of Life:This is the second distinct code amongst the
six codes of professional conduct (Critchley, 2014). This code states that the person must
strive for the proper enhancement of the life quality for everyone, who are being affected by
the work. As per this scenario, the persons who are affected by the project are the respective
clients of Willis project.
iii) Honesty: The third Australian Computer Society Code of Professional Conduct
states that the specific person must be enough honest while his significant representation of
services, products, knowledge and skills. If that particular individual is not being honest, he is
termed as unethical in nature (Gatens, 2013). As per this case study, the CIA, program

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director and the CEO are dishonest as they are launching the Willis project without
encryption.
iv) Competence:This is the next significant Australian Computer Society Code of
Professional Conduct, which refers to the fact that the person must workdiligently and
competently for these stakeholders. In this case study, the affected stakeholders are clients,
project manager and senior and junior project developers. However, they are unable to go
against their seniors by providing them a complete project after proper encryption or testing
(Noddings, 2013). Hence, the senior authorities are unethical.
v) Professional Development:As per professional development, any person must
enhance and increase his professional development as well as for the other colleagues and
staffs. However, the respective program director would be going against his professional
development and is wanting the entire Willis project team for being unethical and illegal and
launch the project earlier.
vi) Professionalism: This is the final code of the ACS code of professional conduct
that states that any specific person will increase the overall integrity of society and respect
from the organizational members (Peters, 2015). However, in the provided scenario, the
respective program director would lose both integrity as well as respect from every other
organizational member.
Suitable Recommendation with Proper Justification
The most suitable and appropriate recommendation for this particular case study of
Early Launch for Gregg and his project team is to hold a meeting with the respective program
director and CEO and make them understand the efficiency of testing and encryption for the
Willis project. With this type of meeting and discussion, the senior authority would be able to
know the problem and will not force the team to launch the project early. Moreover, the

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encryption after launching would be dangerous for the project as it would be incomplete and
the client would be unhappy and would avoid any further contract with the organization,
which would be destructive for the business.
Conclusion
Therefore, from this above discussion, conclusion could be drawn that ethics solely
refers to subsequent morality of human behaviour. The specified methodology that is
extremely effective and efficient for the proper ethical judgement of a situation is by the ACS
Code of Professional Conduct. Six distinctive codes of professional conduct are present that
are the professionalism, the primacy of the public interest, honesty, competence, the
enhancement of quality of life and professional development. All of the six above mentioned
professional conduct codes are responsible for efficiently and effectively determining the
significant morality of any situation without any issue or problem. The above provided essay
has clearly outlined the case scenario of Early Launch, in which the Willis project would be
launched before encryption and analysis is done with the help of ACS Code of Professional
Conduct.

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Critchley, S. (2014). Ethics of deconstruction. Edinburgh University Press.
Dewey, J. (2016). Ethics. Read Books Ltd.
Gatens, M. (2013). Imaginary bodies: Ethics, power and corporeality. Routledge.
Lacan, J. (2013). The ethics of psychoanalysis: The seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII.
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Moor, J. H. (2017). What is computer ethics?. In Computer Ethics (pp. 31-40). Routledge.
Noddings, N. (2013). Caring: A relational approach to ethics and moral education. Univ of
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Peters, R. S. (2015). Ethics and Education (Routledge Revivals). Routledge.
Scenario 3: Early Launch. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=v5M7ohdZ6qA