Professional Issues Assignment: Part 2

Student Name
Student No.
7101ICT
Trimester n, 201n
Professional Issues Assignment: Part 2
Due Date: time, dd/mm/yy
Lecturer: David Tuffley
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Professional Issues Assignment Introduction
Contents
1. Introduction 2
2. Analysis 3
2.1. Legal factors...............................................................................3
2.2. Professional factors....................................................................3
2.3. Employment and Social factors..................................................3
2.4. Personal factors..........................................................................3
2.5. Intrinsic factors............................................................................4
2.6. Prioritisation................................................................................5
2.7. Decision......................................................................................5
3. Discussion 7
4. Conclusions on Analysis 7
5. What I have learned from this course 7
5.1. Technology Ethics......................................................................7
5.2. The Ethical Technologist............................................................8
5.3. Habits of the Effective Technologist...........................................8
5.4. ACS Code of Professional Conduct...........................................8
5.5. Ethical Issues of the Information Age.........................................8
5.6. Thinking Machines......................................................................8
5.7. The Common Denominator........................................................8
5.8. AI and Human Potential..............................................................9
5.9. Final Comments (optional).........................................................9
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Professional Issues Assignment Introduction
1. Introduction
Ethics is important in businesses because it creates a
culture of trust, integrity, responsibility and excellence in
the use of resources (Griseri and Seppala, 2010; De
George, 2011; Griseri and Seppala, 2010). Additionally,
ethics also helps to promote confidentiality, the privacy of
information and supports to prevent conflicts as well as
dishonesty. Here, ethics is significantly required in the
Information Technology (IT) because the business is
based on the privacy and security regarding sharing of the
data (Jin and Drozdenko, 2010). The current business era
is based on IT which is becoming more famous in the
world because the use of technology makes our work
clear and convenient. However, ethics is affected by
several factors such as legal, professional, social,
employment, personal and intrinsic factors which creates
ethical issues within the organization (Tonry, 2014;
Trevino and Nelson, 2016). These factors are associated
with external as well as an internal environment which
affects the ethical behavior of employees as well as the
employer in the firm. In this context, the current report
(Part A) is based on the analysis of social and
professional issues within the IT sectors because the IT
field is more associated with security and privacy issues.
Here, IT sectors face the issues related to data sharing,
the privacy of sensitive information because hackers leak
the information by connecting with multi-sites (Mingers
and Walsham, 2010; Ciulla, Martin and Solomon, 2011).
For this purpose, EDM (Ethical Decision Model) has been
applied in the report to analyze the ethical issues in the
context of stated factors. In part B, reflection has been
prepared on the basis of analysis and need of ethical
technologist.
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Professional Issues Assignment Introduction
2. Analysis
Ethical issues arise in any industry due to the breaching
of laws and policies. On the basis of the EDM model,
several issues have been evaluated in the context of
Information Technology (IT) sector as follows-
2.1. Legal factors
The success of business gets highly affected from the
legal environment because legal factors create
authenticity for the organizations (Tonry, 2014). In this
context, legal policies are most important in the IT sector
because the industry is associated with the use of
advanced technologies for the growth of the businesses.
Here, legal factors include the taxes paid by the
companies to the government which again helps to
promote the economic growth as well as secure the
consumers from the exploitation (Smith, Dinev and Xu,
2011; Botkin et al., 2015). However, different legal and
ethical issues arise in the IT industry which affects the
smooth running of the business activities such as privacy,
security liability, higher cost etc. By considering this, lack
of privacy and security are the major ethical issues in the
IT sector which are mostly faced by the employees as
well as employers (Von Solms and Van Niekerk, 2013).
But, the management of organizations keep watching on
the computer habits of the employees and access the
employee's private accounts by unintended sources and
steal personal information. Hence, use those data to
blackmailing the particular employees who are not an
ethical deed. In this manner, employers check the
employee’s computer habits. Apart from this, the
organization information also hacked by professional
hackers by stealing security passwords and creates the
unethical activities in the context of the companies.
Moreover, the monitoring of employee’s accounts by the
management is not ethical because it contains most of the
personal information of the employees which he/she may
not want to disclose to anyone even with the management
also. In this manner, privacy issues arise through
unethical practices in the firm because IT users have a
higher risk of frauds and conflicting interests (Albarran,
2013; British Medical Association, 2012).
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