Ethics in Information Technology 5th edition Chapter 4 wwyd

Ethics in Information Technology 5th edition Chapter 4 wwyd #2

Use the ficve step decision making process discussed in Chapter 1 to analyze the following situations and recommend a course of action.

WWYD #2

You are a recent college graduate with only a year of experience with your employer. You were recently promoted to manager of email services. You are quite surprised to receive a phone call at home on a Saturday from the Chief Financial Officer of the firm asking that you immediately delete all email from all email servers, including the archive and back up servers, that is older than six months. He states that the reason for his request is that there have been an increasing number of complaints about the slowness of email services. In addition, he says he is concerned about the cost of storing so much email. This does not sound right to you because you recently have taken several measures that have speeded up email services. An alarm goes off when you recall muted conversations in the lunchroom last week about an officer of the company passing along insider trader information to an executive at a hedge fund. What do you say to the Chief Financial Officer?

Solution

ETHICS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

ethics is nothing but few set of rules,that has to be followed in a society,in information technology also,there are few ethics decided worldly,under which allthe information technological profession has to work.Ethics is a set of beliefs about right and wrong behavior within a society.

for example: weall know that software piracy is a crime,and that should be banned ,software piracy means downloading of any software without licence,using a software without licence or permission,similary piracy happens for movies and songs,few months back a site known as torrent was banned because that provided all the movies and songs that too unlicenced.

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now according to the given condition in the above question,we can clearly understan that the CFO is involved in some wrong deeds,therefore he is saying you to do such thins which are not correct,it can be said that your seniorofficials are involved in some type of insider trading,but being an employee it becomes difficut for you to say against them,and being an cfo he dont have any right to delete the mails,so you should first try to coinvence the offficer,that you will try to figure out the problem,and chek for speeding up the internet.

5 steps of the IT ethics are

1Ethical decision making—Adherence to a professional code of ethics means that practitioners use a common set of core values and beliefs as a guideline for ethical decision making

2.High standards of practice and ethical behavior—Adherence to a code of ethics reminds professionals of the responsibilities and duties that they may be tempted to compromise to meet the pressures of day-to-day business.

3.Trust and respect from the general public—Public trust is built on the expectation that a professional will behave ethically. People must often depend on the integrity and good judgment of a professional to tell the truth, abstain from giving self-serving advice, and offer warnings about the potential negative side effects of their actions. Thus, adherence to a code of ethics enhances trust and respect for professionals and their profession

4.Evaluation benchmark—A code of ethics provides an evaluation benchmark that a professional can use as a means of self-assessment. Peers of the professional can also use the code for recognition or censure

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5 deecision making steps culd be.

1firts of all employee should gather the requied information,and should analysis the situation,whether the problem whic the cfo told is right or not,and he should also do a case study on,if the process will affect the users,weather they will be affected bydeleting the files.he should have actual data,and should not assume anything about.

2.he should find alternatives to sort the problem,is speed f internet is slow,he should programme somthing which could enhance the speed of internet,and CFO\'s problem could alsobe resolved.

3.after this he should choose the best alternative,which will give best result without voilating the rule or ethisc of IT.

4.after choosing the best suited altenate optin,he should make a team forit,and should lead the team properly,make them understand what they have to do,and what should be the result of their work.

5. he shouls evaluate the resultans,is result satisfactory,or he has to repeat the process,for more effecient work.