Analysis of Doing Ethics Technique (DET) in a Business Scenario

This case study analyzes a scenario involving a Program Director and a Project Manager discussing the early launch of a project, utilizing the Doing Ethics Technique (DET). The Program Director pressures the Project Manager to launch the Willis project without encryption due to pressure from the CEO. The analysis delves into the facts, issues, and affected parties, highlighting the ethical implications of delivering the project without encryption, such as potential data breaches and security vulnerabilities. The case study explores various options, concluding that the best approach involves the Program Director listening to the development team's concerns about project security. The assignment emphasizes the importance of encryption, data protection, and ethical decision-making in project management, referencing several academic sources.

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Scenario
The scenario discussed in this report is discussion between Program Director and Project
Manager for early launch of project. The scenario is described through Doing Ethics Technique
(DET) as given below.
Q1. What's going on?
Solution: The Program Director discusses with the Program Manager about the early
launch of Willis project. The Program Director wants Project Manager to launch the project early
as CIA was asked to deliver the project early due to pressure from CEO (Al-Saggaf, 2016). The
Program Director asks Program Manager to deliver the project without encryption so that they
could deliver the project early. The Program Director proposes offers to Program Manager for
doing the work. However, the Program Manager is not convinced due to major consequences of
delivery of project without encryption.
Q2. What are the facts?
Solution: The facts that come up in this discussion are the reasons of delivering the
project early. The reasons are that CIA is under extensive pressure from the CEO. The CEO is
worried because Willis may not sign the next assignment which costs above three million. This
shows that the actual fact is losing of next contract of worth 3 million from Willis. This is the
reason the Program Director is also under pressure and wants Program Manager to deliver the
project early.
Q3. What are the issues?

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Solution: The issues in this scenario are the consequences of delivering the project
without encryption. The delivery of project without encryption will pose some ethical and
security issues that can be severe. The project can also be prone to get hacked. The encryption of
any project is necessary to prevent it from being hacked (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017). The
encryption is used to encode information in a way that it can only be accessed and read by
authorized parties or entities. There are chances where information transfer can be broken in
between and result in loss of information or modified information. The hackers are always ready
to attack on systems that are not encrypted. The encryption will ensure verified and authorized
use of information within a system (El-Abed & Szewczyk, 2014). This is the importance of
encryption which Program Director does not understand. The Program Manager is worried for
this issue that can arise without encryption in the project.
Q4. Who is affected?
Solution: The project without encryption will affect the users and the company. The
company will get affected the most as their sensitive data in the delivered project can be attacked
by the hacker and thus misused (Pinto, 2015). The users who are related with the company can
also become the victim where they may get breached and their data will release in public. The
users’ sensitive data such as their bank account details or personal details will be misused in
various ways.
Q5. What are the ethical issues and their implications?
Solution: The ethical issues related to early delivery of project without encryption are
that it will pose a threat to the company. The three major ethical issues posed due to the delivery
of project without encryption are data breach, data modification, data protection and access

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controls. The other major ethical issue is long-term resiliency. The data breach will severely
affect the company by losing the data to the attackers. The modification of data may affect data
loss where actual data may be modified with the fake data. The system without encryption may
also give hackers the advantage of gaining full access controls of the system. The management of
information can also be misused by the internal workforce is not handled properly. The ethical
issue related to the discussion between Program Director and Program Manager is that Program
Manager or Program Director can face legal issues if Willis files case against the company
(Schwalbe, 2015). Willis may allege in future that the company has betrayed him by providing
an unsafe project that can be attacked in present or future. The implications are huge where the
company may face great lose and position in the market. The company may also face certain
legal accusations by Willis Company.
Q6. What could have been done about it?
Solution: The Program Director should have understood the problem and tried to
convince CIA to further convince CEO about the consequences of the early delivery of project
without encryption. The Project Director could have talked personally to the higher authority by
including the Program Manager and the team in the discussion of the consequences (Shmueli et
al., 2014). The situation could be handled if the higher authority has undertaken the opinions and
view of the developer team.
Q7. What are the options?
Solution: The options for the scenario of delivering the project without encryption are
described in the given below paragraph. The below are the possible options that can be
considered in this scenario.

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The first option is to Program Director pressurize Program Manager and he listens to the
Program Manager. The second option is that Program Director ignores the recommendations
proposed by the Program Manager. The third option is Program Director listen the developer
team.
Q8. Which option is the best and why?
Solution: The third option is the best option because of the following points. Program
Director listens to the developing team regarding the delivery of project without encryption
(Jalhotra, Kumar & Aggarwal, 2017). This option can be best applied as the project delivery to a
company is a big responsibility. This is because if there is any missing point or feature then it
will severely affect the company. The developers are not only money minded. They respect
values and opinions in their work environment (Gong et al., 2017). Hence they do not want that
their company get in any type of problem. The developers are also focused in their work hence
they may not want to deliver the project without any missing functionality. The Program
Director if listens to the developer team then he can understand that there are many problems that
can emerge if the project is delivered without encryption. Therefore, this option is best for this
ethically questionable scenario.

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