ICT Professional Ethics in Company Merger: Analysis and Framework

This assignment explores the ethical challenges faced by ICT professionals during company mergers. It begins by discussing the cultural issues that can impact ICT professionals, such as anonymity, rapid change, and changes in work environment. The student then applies the McDonald framework for ethical changeover decisions, providing reasons for its selection. The assignment further outlines a process for analyzing potentially unethical situations, emphasizing the importance of examining consequences and actions before making a decision. Finally, it addresses the importance of ethical codes, highlighting personal uprightness, professional relationships, and responsibility within the workplace. References are provided to support the analysis.

Running Head: ETHICAL ISSUES FOR ICT PROFESSIONALS IN COMPANY MERGER
ETHICAL ISSUES FOR ICT PROFESSIONALS IN COMPANY MERGER
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Answer 1
Every employee of a certain organization follows a typical professional culture of the
company under the influence of the environment of the company unless and until mergers or
acquisition happens. After this, the work culture of that company changes a lot. The changes are:
 Anonymousness: like other employees ICT professionals of a company loses confidence
and get scared by the unknown features of the new culture (Qi and Ming-Xia 2014). This
hampers their performance as a whole.
 Quick- changeover: the administrative department of any company tries to adopt the
changes post-merger very fast. This affects the new employees most. They get
uncomfortable.
 Changeover: every changes like the change of working hours, work processes, new office
environment affects the employees most. As a whole, every detailed change in the office
due to merger affects the performance of ICT professionals.
Answer 2
ICT professionals find themselves in difficulty in fitting with the new environment post-
merger. In such context, the framework for ethical changeover decision of McDonald’s is quite
relevant. The McDonald framework is described as follows:
 Collecting all the relevant data and identify the issue.
 Research for a practical and different solution to the issue.
 Research for accuracy in the alternative solutions using ethical gradation and
standardization.
 Testing over the solutions by implementing them with practical resolutions.

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 Choose the final solution
Answer 3
Ethical dilemma is quite common in professional field like personal life. This is why such
situations are dealt with care and sensitivity.
1. Examine the consequences: after deciding the role we need to play in case of any ethical
dilemma it is time to think about the consequences of it (Strøbæk and Vogt 2013).
 Who will be benefited by this decision and in what manner?
 If it is harmful for anyone or not.
 Whether the degree of distress is comparable with the impact of benefits. as a matter
every decision is helpful for some and can be harmful for other one.
Only after analyzing all the points, we can make a call of change based on the parameters
of benefit or harms.
2. Analysis of the actions: it is important to focus on the actions taken rather than the result
of it (Hjørland, 2014). It is important to look whether the actions are having bad impact
like disrespecting others, which cannot be tolerated.
3. Take the decision: this istime to make a call. Only after analyzing the above points we
can take a decision of whether to implement a decision or not.
Answer 4
The code is a standardized rule for conduct and integrity, which should be followed by all the
employees and interns of any company or public sector place.

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 Personal uprightness: the employees should be careful about their responsibilities and
should carry out their works with honesty, impartiality and punctuality with relevant data
(Al-Saggaf, Burmeister and Weckert 2015).
 Professional relationship between employees: every employee should be treated with
integrity and respect and their skillsets should be recognized regularly.
 Responsibility: the company should act with responsibility and should be accounted for
proper usage of human resources as well as other resources available for them.

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References
Al-Saggaf, Y., Burmeister, O. and Weckert, J., 2015. Reasons behind unethical behaviour in the
Australian ICT workplace: An empirical investigation. Journal of Information, Communication
and Ethics in Society, 13(3/4), pp.235-255.
Hjørland, B., 2014. Theories of knowledge organization—theories of knowledge. Knowledge
organization, 40(3), pp.169-181.
Qi, Y. and Ming-Xia, L., 2014. Ethical leadership, organizational identification and employee
voice: Examining moderated mediation process in the Chinese insurance industry. Asia Pacific
Business Review, 20(2), pp.231-248.
Strøbæk, P.S. and Vogt, J., 2013. Cultural synergy and organizational change: From crisis to
innovation. Journal of Business and Media Psychology, 4(1), pp.25-34.