ICT40118: Ethics Policy for Information Technology Organizations

This presentation delves into the crucial role of ethics policies within organizations, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct in the workplace. It outlines the purpose of an ethics policy, which is to ensure employees act in a specific way that is bound within the business to promote ethical and legal behavior. The presentation highlights key features such as the primacy of public interest, honesty, competence, and professionalism. It also explores attributes like ethical information sharing based on the confidentiality levels. The presentation uses real-life examples to illustrate these concepts and includes a discussion of the results, concluding that ethics policies are essential for every organization to promote ethical behavior. The presentation also includes references to relevant literature.

THE ETHICS
POLICY
The purpose, features, attributes of an Ethics Policy in
an organization

INTRODUCTION
 Every organization must enlist ethics policy for the betterment of the
organization.
 This is not related to the technical requirements of the organization but
acts towards the values, mission and vision that an organization has.
 The way that a business professional must behave and act towards their
day to day activities is bound by the Ethics Policy to ensure the best set
standard in the organization regarding the workplace behaviour and
conduct.
 The presentation would guide through the purpose, features, attributes of
an Ethics policy within organizations with real-life examples.

AIMS
 The presentation aims at making the audience understand about the
purpose, features, attributes of an Ethics policy in any organization
irrespective of the organization size or conduct.
 The purpose of a workplace ethical code of conduct would ensure a sense
of detailed descriptions in the most legal and ethical behavior possible,

OBJECTIVES
The objective is to make the audience learn
about the ethical principles of justice,
beneficence, nonmaleficence, accountability,
fidelity, autonomy, and veracity of professional
conduct within a business.

THE PURPOSE, FEATURES, ATTRIBUTES OF
AN ETHICS POLICY, USING A REAL-LIFE
EXAMPLE
Purpose
 The purpose of an Ethics Policy is to ensure that the
workplace has employees that are dedicated to act
is a specific way that are bound within the business
for bringing out the most ethical and legal behavior.
Since the employees make the business
organization, this would result to the best
organizational behavior.

THE PURPOSE, FEATURES, ATTRIBUTES OF AN
ETHICS POLICY, USING A REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE
(CONTD.)
 Features
 The primacy of public interest: The business needs to
place the interest of the public above the personal, business
or sectional interest.
 The enhancement of the life quality: The business would
require to enhance the quality of life for the people who
would be affected by the work of the organization.
 Honesty: This should be conducted by the business to
ensure the representation of the skills, knowledge, services
and products with honesty.

THE PURPOSE, FEATURES, ATTRIBUTES OF AN
ETHICS POLICY, USING A REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE
(CONTD.)
Features
 Competence: The business work should diligently and
competently work for the stakeholders of the business.
 The professional development: The business work
should look forward to the professional development of
all the people throughout the business.
 Professionalism: The enhancement of the integrity of
the Society is what the business should look forward to
with the mutual respect of the business members.

THE PURPOSE, FEATURES, ATTRIBUTES OF AN
ETHICS POLICY, USING A REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE
(CONTD.)
 Attributes
 The organizations in UK and Australia has been looking
forward to the ethical conduction of the business where the
construction sites shares the business attributes and the
ethical information sharing based on the confidentiality
levels.

RESULTS
According to the results, it can be said that the
Human rights are the basic rights and
freedoms that belong to every person in the
world, and the ethical policy embedded in the
workplace ensures that the business looks
forward to the moral and business standard
values to ensure the basic human rights for all
the people associated with the organization.

FUTURE WORK
The business organizations must understand the
business efficiency and the business value that an
organization is aiming at with the Ethics Policies.
Professional values for the businesses must ensure
the need for the knowledge about technical
competency, data validity, patient safety along with
the need for truthfulness and compassion while
serving the professional duties for both the
organization and their customers. This should be
understood by every organization in future.