Ethical Business Management

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Ethical Business Management
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Executive summary
The aim of this report is to discuss the unethical incident took place in the Victorian state
government office. There took place an unethical data breach where the personal information
of more than 30,000 public staffs and contractors from the office directory. This report has
discussed this particular incident from the virtue ethics perspective and pointed out the most
essential parts of this unethical behaviour. This report has properly utilised the theory and
recommended important measures that the management of this particular organization need
to take so that this incident do not take place in future.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Case Study..............................................................................................................................3
Ethical dilemma.....................................................................................................................4
Virtue ethics:..........................................................................................................................5
Recommendation:..................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References:.................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
As the world has already moved into 21st century, advancement in the field of science
and technology have changed the lives of every individual living in the planet. However, not
every change is positive. Negativities are reaching their height. The amount of crimes that are
committed today using the computers are internet are many. Cybercrime is one of the most
significant and most happening crimes in modern era (Sherer et al., 2018). The aim of this
paper is to present a case study report on a case that is identified with an event that describes
certain ethical issues, within an Asia-Pacific business context. The chosen case for this
purpose is that of the very recent incident of data breach of data security in the employees of
Victorian government. Furthermore, it shall further elaborate on discussing the main ethical
issues and the initiatives taken by the organisation on the basis of ethics and morality.
Discussion
Case Study
On 22nd of December, 2018, one of the unauthorised third party attempted to access
and download a partial copy of the directory of the Victorian government employee. The
directory identified near about 30,000 public staffs and contractors. As per ABC news, it
seems that the third party have accessed all the lists after using one of the employee’s email
account (ABC News, 2019). This directory included all the work emails, the phone numbers
as well as the job titles of these employees. The employees were influenced by this breach
were sent e-mails by the third party. It was very necessary for the Victorian government
managers who were in charge to be aware of such risks, especially in such this modern era
where there are high risks of cybercrime. They were required to stay vigilant when it came to
unsolicited communications through telephones and e-mails. It is also to note that these
government employees were told that no financial information and banking information was