Professional Environments: Ethics, Professionalism and Governance

This assignment is a case study analysis focused on the Australian Computer Society (ACS) code of ethics and professional conduct. The case study centers on a programmer, John, who faces challenges in completing a statistical program. Facing pressure from his manager and struggling with complex programming issues, John uses code from a coworker and a commercial software package without informing anyone. The analysis explores the ethical violations, specifically relating to the principles of honesty and competence. John's actions are assessed against the ACS guidelines, highlighting his failure to maintain professional integrity and his disregard for proper procedures. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of adhering to ethical codes to maintain discipline, integrity, and honesty within a company. The assignment references several academic papers that discuss ethics in professional practice and computer science education.

Running Head: Code of Ethics and Professional conduct: 0
Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
June 29
2019

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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................2
Australian Computer Society.............................................................................................2
Case Study........................................................................................................................2
Conclusion:........................................................................................................................3
Reference..........................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
In this case study the discussion is done on ACS code of ethics and professional conduct, ACS
is also known as Australian Computer Society. There are some decided codes of the company
which are decided so that there should be no any violation and professionalism remains in the
company.
Australian Computer Society
It is the Australian association which is providing its services in the information technology, with
the professional developers on wide scale in Australia. The company was formed in 1966 and it
was originated by the societies of 5 states. There are some described parameters or can say
policy of the company which are set to maintain the professionalism amongst employees or with
the clients (Sajjanhar, and Faulkner, 2019). Currently in the company more than 26000
members are working and each member of the company has to follow these codes. These
codes are mentioned below:
i. Primacy of public interest
ii. Enhancement of work life
iii. Honesty
iv. Competence
v. Professional Development
vi. Professionalism
Case Study
In the given case study one of the member of company name John he was assigned with the
program but at some situation john was not able to get out of it, he was stuck to situation, his
senior was also not able to conclude the problem later on from his co-worker through source
which was linked to some other company so without informing to any one john completed the
program, and he violated the principles of the company (Baird, 2019). By conducting this work
he violates two principles of the company and they are briefly explained below:
i. Honesty: According to this principle the member of company must ensure to maintain
a professionalism relating with the work and action at work place. Every action which
has to perform in the company under integrity and honesty with company. John
completed the task but for that he violated the first principle of the company. He
misleads his senior as without informing them use the source which was linked to
some different company (Garner, Denny, and Luxton-Reilly, 2019). He should have
to inform his senior about the situation, the task could be discussed with other
employees, or it could be discussed with other experts even after if there was no any
outcome appears than the problem could be discussed with the client and changes
could implement in the program.
ii. Competence: This principles explains that if any task is aligned to a particular
individual than until and unless without declaration or instruction of the senior task
should not be discussed with any other member of company. The task should be
taken only in the case if the requirement of the program is understood. John share
the details and information related to program with the co-worker which was totally
against the task, he should had to discuss with the senior and according to their
instruction he should had to take action (Rogerson, Miller, Winter, and Larson, 2019).

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Conclusion:
In the above study the principles or can say the ethical code and professional conduct is
defined, these are defined or described in the organization so that every employee works under
discipline or to maintain the integrity and honesty in the company. These are designed in each
company to maintain the professionalism in market.

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Reference
Baird, J., 2019. Serving Ethically: A Developing Country Perspective on Quality
Education for Professional Practice. In Ensuring Quality in Professional Education
Volume II (pp. 91-113). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Garner, J., Denny, P. and Luxton-Reilly, A., 2019, January. Mastery Learning in
Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Australasian
Computing Education Conference (pp. 37-46). ACM.
Rogerson, S., Miller, K.W., Winter, J.S. and Larson, D., 2019. Information systems
ethics–challenges and opportunities. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics
in Society, 17(1), pp.87-97.
Sajjanhar, A. and Faulkner, J., 2019. Second life as a learning environment for
computer programming. Education and Information Technologies, pp.1-26.