Case Study on Professional Ethics

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CASE STUDY ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
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CASE STUDY
Discussion
Christina is suffering from an ethical dilemma related to professional ethics and
personal prejudices. She is basically experiencing from a conflict of interest arising from her
own personal prejudices from ethical viewpoint resulting in violation of professional ethics.
Being a software manager, Christina’s duty is to program and test the release of the
accounting software.
Therefore, Christina has been recently testing three more software’s that have been
written by her colleagues, in which she has observed some minor bugs that would require
fixing. However, the manager has decided to release this software without fixing it
completely to the public. Christina, in this case, is aware of the violation of ethics that the
company is attempting to do.
Considering, Chris Macdonald methodology of ethical dilemma, Christina can follow
these steps to resolve the problem. Firstly, Christina needs to successfully identify the
decision that is of moral importance, specifically decisive clues that signify the conflict in
between two or more different values.
Secondly, she needs to identify the individual that has the stake in the decision. In this
context, she has to be imaginative as well as sympathetic (Roberts 2015). This is because it is
often important to consider the organisational parties whose interest must be given more
priority than the ethical morality. Apart from these, she needs to analyse the relations
between professional parties and herself with relevant institutions.
Thirdly, she needs to take a note of the shared values that may bring in the question of
trust, the issue of justice or harm that may be caused to the public due to the software.
Fourthly, Christina needs to create a balance in between benefits and the burdens associated