Analyzing Ethics & Governance: An ACS Professional Environments Case

This assignment presents a case study involving Jaspreet, a statistical database programmer, who faces ethical dilemmas due to work pressure and a manager's lack of focus on employee satisfaction. Jaspreet resorts to using someone else's code to meet deadlines, which violates the ACS Code of Professional Conduct, particularly concerning honesty, competence, and public interest. The analysis involves applying the White Framework to assess the consequences and actions, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct and adherence to Australian legislation like the Fair Work Act and Privacy Act, as well as relevant ISO standards. The assignment recommends that management prioritize employee satisfaction and open communication to prevent similar situations, highlighting the need for individuals to uphold professional ethics and integrity in the workplace. The study uses references to support the ethical and legal considerations discussed.

ACS Project Cover Sheet
Subject Name: Professional Environments (Module 1 – Project 1)
Project Name/Number: Project 1 – Professionalism, Ethics and Governance
Date of Submission:
Case Study Name/No.
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Section 1 – The White Framework
Student Instructions:
Fill in the Table below using short sentences or dot points to make a list in each section. You must fill out all
three table cells under Issues/Results prior to marking it as complete. You should input 350-500 words into this section.
Case Study
Name & Number:
Step Process/Step Issues/Results
Step 1: Analyze - The
Consequences
As per the case study, the statistical database programmer named Jaspreet is facing the difficulties in
submitting the work on time where he gets the help from co-workers and become successful in completing
the assignment or work. On another side, Jaspreet manager Araina do not focus on employee satisfaction
and forces them to complete and submit their work on time from where the employee can lose the faith
on her. Jaspreet uses someone else coding, if the company founds him they can put the legal action against
him which will be very risky and difficulty for him to move forward in his professional career. In this entire
situation, Jaspreet can face the ACS conducting penalties as he shows someone else as work as his own
which is absolutely illegal to be performed (Anwar, Gill and Beydoun, 2018).
Step 2: Analyze - The
Actions
According to the case study, if Jaspreet founds guilty of showing someone else work of his own can create
a huge problem for him where the company can file a case against him. The ACS term simple refers as
Australian Computer Sysytem where the people have to consider its ethics and values which denotes
honesty, competence, the primacy of the public interest, improvement of quality of life, enhancement of
professional development and professionalism. Understanding these concepts and implementing the
ethics by the Jaspreet can save himself by not getting lose his job. If he found guilty then he has to face
many difficulties like penalties as can be fires from the company, lose their license and lose of reputation.
Step 3: Make A Decision In the case study, it has been stated that Jaspreet has done unethical thing at their company due to work
pressure he felt from the manager. By learning from this incident, Jaspreet has to make sure that this
incident must not repeat again and if someone do this then he or she can be fired from the company and
legal action also can be taken by the company. Thus, each employee should focus on the ethics of ACS and
perform at workplace (Nwosu, John, Izang and Akorede, 2018).

Section 2 – The Governance and Regulatory Environment
Part 1 - ACS Code of Professional Conduct AnalysisIdentify the appropriate ACS Code of Professional Conduct values along with the relevant sub-paragraph topics by number and sub-paragraph
(e.g. 1.2.6 (g) – endeavour to extend public knowledge and understanding of ICT). Group each by value and appropriate corresponding sub-
paragraphs relevant to your case study.
Case Study:
(
Name & Number)
ACS Code of Professional Conduct Value & Section: 1.2.?
Competence: The term competence is core principle of the ethical conduct where an employee only has to accept those work which they can
perform well and do not hesitate to obtain the expertise and can be come adviser able. This code is ensuring to understand the limitations of
your own and can complete the task in successful manner (Liaw, Kuziemsky, Schreiber, Jonnagaddala, and et,al, 2021). According to the case
study, Jaspreet should not perform unethical working at the workplace a sit is beyond the legal process.
ACS Code of Professional Conduct Section: 1.2.?
The Enhancement of Quality of Life: The manager Ariana has to focus on the employee satisfaction area from which they can be able to feel
good to share something from her. The improper interaction of the manager with their employee make the Jaspreet to breach the company
laws and legislation and cannot be able to enhance his quality of life. Personal satisfaction is one of the main thing which an individual should
keep focus on.
ACS Code of Professional Conduct Section: 1.2.?
Honesty: Each and individual person should be careful at their workplaces and must not breach any public trust in their professionalism. Trust
is one of the main factor that makes the company to feel satisfied by having such honest employee at their workplace. In the case study,
Jaspreet has done wrong and breach the trust of the company which is against the ACS code.
ACS Code of Professional Conduct Section: 1.2.?
Public Interest: This code of ethics includes that each and individual must respect the intellectual property of the other as in the case study
Jaspreet has taken someone else work and submit to the manager which also impacts negatively.

Section 2 – The Governance and Regulatory Environment
Part 2 – Legislative and International Standards AnalysisIdentify the appropriate Australian Legislation (e.g. Fair Work Act; Privacy Act). Identify and list relevant Australian/International Organization
for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (AS ISO/IEC) (e.g. AS ISO/IEC 38500:2016). Provide at least four items in each
category in the boxes below.
Case Study:
Australian Legislation
Fair Work Act 2009: The Australian government has implemented this legislation where the employee and employer can have a safe and
flexible working environment with fairness and prevents the discrimination against employee (Fisher, 2021).
Privacy Act: The Australian law who is dealing with privacy where organizations and business promotes the privacy of the data of an
individual.
Work health and Safety Act 2011: This act of the government ensures that the employer have to provide a healthy and safe working
environment to the employee.
Freedom of Information Act 1982: In this act, the public has right to access the documents which are official of the Australian
Government.
AS/ISO/IEC Standards
AS: Australian standards
ISO: International Organizational Standardization
IEC: International Electro Technical Commission

Section 3 – Justifying a Decision and Recommending Appropriate ActionMake short text responses to the five (5) questions in the spaces provided. Each response should be between 50 - 80 words (Total not to exceed
400 words).
1. What were the most important professional ethics issues/dilemmas for you in your scenario? (Reference at least two core issues)
The two most important professional ethics should be follow by the Jaspreet is honesty and integrity. Jaspreet has breach the trust of the
company and manager and submitted the copied work which is entirely inappropriate. The professional ethics has considered the law where
each employee and employer has to maintain the honesty and integrity at the workplace and should perform the principles of the
professional code and values (Dunleavy and Evans, 2019).
2. What do you believe are the most appropriate decisions to be made here for management, organisation and employees?
According to the case study, the management has to take the appropriate decision in relation to the organization where they can focus on the
employee satisfaction and should consider and understand the difficulties of the employee so that they can easily share their problems and do
not perform any unethical work.
3. Who is responsible for taking what action here and why? (Name names!)
Araina the manager of the company is responsible for the entire action taken by the Jaspreet. Arian is not focusing on the employee needs
and difficulties where Jaspreet is facing the issue in his work but Ariana is only wanted to have the work completed by the employee in
definite manner without knowing and understanding their problems. The action taken by the Jaspreet is in pressurized way where he has to
submit the work to the manager anyhow.
4. What can be done, or what strategies can be implemented to ensure that a similar situation does not occur again?
The manager Ariana can focus one the employee engagement where she should have to interact with their employee on daily basis from
where the employee like Jaspreet can be able to share their difficulty with the manager and do not perform the unethical manner at the
workplace.
5. What did you learn from reading this scenario?
Reading the entire scenario, it has been learned that each and individual employee should follow and perform the ethics of professional
values and must not perform any unethical working in any kind of circumstances. Along with this, by watching Ariana attitude and behaviour
among her employee is very poor from which the entire scenario is creates which is absolutely incorrect. An individual person should be
responsible for their working and has to perform their work in definite manner.

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Fisher, C.B., 2021. Decoding the ethics code: A practical guide for psychologists. Sage Publications.
Liaw, S.T., Kuziemsky, C., Schreiber, R., Jonnagaddala, and et,al, 2021. Primary care informatics response to Covid-19 pandemic: adaptation,
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