Report on Ethics, Sustainability, and Social Impacts in Business

This report delves into the critical intersection of ethics, sustainability, and social impact within the business domain, with a particular focus on information technology and its implications. It explores the ethical considerations arising from the use and development of electronic technologies, emphasizing the importance of ethical principles in IT to protect and guide the use of IT resources. The report examines potential worst-case scenarios in digital communication, particularly concerning data misuse and security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, it analyzes ethical principles within international business, highlighting principles such as respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. The report also references real-world examples and data from organizations like the NSA and KnowTheChain to illustrate the practical application of these principles and the impact of ethical considerations on business practices and outcomes. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for a strong ethical framework to ensure positive outcomes in business and the importance of addressing digital divides.

Ethics Sustainability and
Social Impacts.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
PART A- Ethics in Information Technology...................................................................................1
1. Illustrate about Enforcement agencies to be allowed unrestricted access to such complete
and instructive information lives.................................................................................................1
2. What is worst case situation where unrestricted access to digital communication of general
populations?................................................................................................................................2
3. Discuss about private emails accounts which is having mucg protection for review
document.....................................................................................................................................3
Additional Question.........................................................................................................................4
4. Describe relevant ethical principles in information technology............................................4
5. Highlight about argument within digital divide importance...................................................4
PART B- .....................................................................................................................................5
6 illustrate detail information about ethical principle within international business..................5
2. Illustrate about figures estimated 24.9 million people in generating profit of company. ......6
4. Know the chain. ....................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Ethics and Sustainability is both different parts business organisation within regard
towards long term sustain for accomplishing goals and objectives. There are three major aspects
of sustainability which include in social economic and environmental (Bacq and Eddleston,
2018). The term sustainability development that effectively meets overall requirement of current
generation. This process is not allows compromising factor within ability towards their future
needs. As per this report, organisation is taken NSA (National Security Agency) is national level
of intelligence agency of United States Department of Defence where the authority is undertaken
by Director of National Intelligence. The topics are cover in tow different parts, where first part
is elaborates about Ethics in Information Technology and second one is issue creates in
international business.
MAIN BODY
PART A- Ethics in Information Technology.
1. Illustrate about Enforcement agencies to be allowed unrestricted access to such complete and
instructive information lives.
Ethics in Information Technology is study of the ethical related issues arising out use and
development of electric technologies. The min objective to implies ethics in IT is to protect and
follows the principles while assorting IT resources. Enforcement Agencies is type of laws
respond to detect and prevent crime. In perspective NSA, in this type of agencies police officer
significant plays an important role to adapt in unexpected situation. For situational awareness are
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viewed for determine that enhance to investigate for development interaction between
information technology.
There are some Enforcement Agencies about to unrestricted access such as following aspects:
 To mapping utilise through effective online website monitor for critical use of websites
by people, restrict to cyber hacking that allows to gain positivity in surroundings where
people's social media safer.
 Abusive and unethical activities to get secure by laws which generate from enforcement
agencies.
 To create many laws and regulation to establish for maintain discipline to provide
optimum value for positive way of outcomes (Bosch-Badi., Montllor-Serrats and
Tarrazon-Rodon., 2018).
 Different rules and regulation is target to significant working corporate department as
well as those segment which are not related within professionalism. The aim is to protect
working guidelines and detect negative flaws to enhance working flexibility.
2. What is worst case situation where unrestricted access to digital communication of general
populations?
The Digital communication involves an organisation's related online communication
efforts. As target organisation in current situation uses wide range of channels from their website
to mobile chat to blogs. Furthermore, to connect and prospective customers, employees and other
stakeholders. In NSA perspective, digital communication is refers about to social media channels
where they uses to create society and ethical awareness. In perspective of NSA company, their
digital activities might faces worst situation in following factors to deal:
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 Misuse of Client or people data: In many multinational companies they faces some
sort of challenges while disclosing or leaking of their client's information in public
platform. As NSA is ensures about to restrict and provide assurance about protection as
making confidential about clients personal data within company premises.
 Lack of security: In NSA there are plenty of threats to consider by terrorists where
they majorly uses to reduce foreign power, terrorists, economic espionage, targeting
national information infrastructure (Camilleri, 2017). As United States is consider to be
most powerful economy for appealing mass development. If the security would not
effective enough then threats can implies more amount due to lack of security.
 Protection in Social media: As Social media is most influence and wider concept in
which different people use their account for posting picture, quotes etc. There is
chances of generating threat through social media platform like Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram and other media channels.
3. Discuss about private emails accounts which is having mucg protection for review document.
As per the constant work roles of private department or agencies are abide to follows
complaince to enhance more positive outcomes. It is having protection factor where agencies can
adopt for private email accounts which helps to stored laws enforcement for systematically
enhanced. In context of NSA, there is chances to building up more creativities which Email is
ancient technologies that compared within modern team communication tools where the
limitation that makes its age real barrier to security. Every websites is having their own end to
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Illustration 1: Digital Communication
Trafficking, 2020.
Source:
https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2019/06/ho
w-ai-helping-nonprofits-and-law-enforcement-
agencies-fight-human-trafficking

end encrypting about to obscure data. An email server is data that drive to store messages and
drafts as it operates from web browser.
Additional Question
4. Describe relevant ethical principles in information technology.
The information technology ethics is the study of ethical issues arising out where the use
of development about electronic technologies. Its goal is to well identify and reflecting about
more information about responsibilities and action. In perspective of ethical principle in
information technology which follows for using online or usage of internet is enhance for
rightful content. Ethics in information using Principles of Beneficence which helps to undertakes
decision making to ensure attain targets (La and et. al., 2019). Similarly, NASA follows this
ethical principle of beneficence that computer operates to accompanied for attained better
competitive advantages. Furthermore, other principles are not related like Autonomy, principles
of justice, as these are total linked with legal legislation and where information technology is
demonstrate about technical for create better work flexibility.
5. Highlight about argument within digital divide importance.
Digital divide enhance to work on causes inequalities ICT(Information and
Communication Technologies) where they offers about advantages that having greater across
towards information, reduction of cost and having greater creativity between people etc. The
importance of digital divide because in current situation people live and use digital technolgical
world. In that, advanced technology allows Artificial intelligence featured towards every aspect
of human lives.
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Thus, to having access about digital technologies and the internet can depth information
share about advanced technologies for effective assessing of usage internet usage learning more
working platform to gain positive responses (Rawhouser, Cummings and Newbert, 2019). I
PART B-
6 illustrate detail information about ethical principle within international business.
Ethical principles are part of a normative theory that helps to better justifies or defend
about moral values or judgements where they are not dependent on one's subjective view points.
In perspective of NSA, there is some examples along with principles towards business executives
which establish standard on ethical person are elaborates in followings: Principle of respect for autonomy: The term define about independence is self rule
which is having obligation to having respect for making decision through other by
consider own expectation (Rodriguez-Rad and Ramos-Hidalgo, 2018). For example:
Honesty is one trait which comes in autonomy like Manager of company shows their
honest concerned towards employees for long term benefits. Principles of Beneficence: It is having obligation which indicates in about to having
barriers or issues creates in presence of organisation for provide effective actions to
having certain action implies . For example: When manager used to make decisions and
undertakes all actions to enhance objectives accomplish.
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Illustration 2: Digital Divide Cycle, 2020
Source: https://thedigitaldivideaustralia.weebly.com/why-is-
the-digital-divide-important.html

 Principles of Non-maleficence: According of this principles it refers about to not harm.
For examples: In multinational or corporate business human resource department is
reliable for attempting laws and regulation towards manpower and to main disciplinary
working aspect for long term.
 The Principles of Justice: The obligation to provide others with whatever they entitled
and deserve as in public life obligation to treat for equally and fairly.
2. Illustrate about figures estimated 24.9 million people in generating profit of company.
The estimation of 24.9 millions people around about to manpower generates high profit
$100 billions in private company. For example retail industry is suitable example for highlight
about generating more revenue, some venture of retails are Marks and Spencer, Tesco Asda
Stores where they provide wide range of product and service. As there is researcher that used to
creates about 40-45 percent for generating $3.6 billions in year of 2017. The research method
according to the given literature review is Quantitative research method and all data is scrutinize
through primary as well as secondary data basis. The reason to opted Quantitative research
method is data is analyse into statistical and numeric manner. The key messages are overall
research is conduct to assess the current working environment of retail business. This ensures
that employees are working as per guidelines (Schönborn and et. al., 2019).
4. Know the chain.
As per aforementioned report is KnowTheChain, 2020 is improves its study that enhance
to addressed about world's 49 largest ICT companies about their efforts to tackle risks. The vats
probablity of company increase their value in drastic or unappropriated manner way within 76%
receiving towards implements polices.
The overall research is focuses on Quantitative research method where finding generates
in ration and numerical manner like in bar graphs such as Commitment and Government,
Traceability and risk assessment, purchasing and recuritmnet (Urdan and Luoma, 2020). The key
messages us allows to demonstrate as improving internal structure of KnowTheChain company
in terms of workers voice, remedy monitoring and remedy as well as worker voice all these rates
on the scale of high, average and low score to generate optimum outcomes.
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Through above equal analysation that depicts about generally highlight about fluctuation
internal changes that happen for developing perspective about customer recuritment on creating
upper level.
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CONCLUSION
From above report of Ethics Sustainability and Social Impact that explain about
information technology and National Security of United States where Ethics plays an important
for generating positive outcomes. Digital communication is wider concept in which there are
worst scenario on to creates online sources for that help to ban unrestricted websites for general
population. Further, two Information communication technologies company allows to improve
their infrastructure as well as recruitment to development.
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