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Ethical issues
a. Professional aspects: - Collins English dictionary definitions of: -
Profession: - is an occupation requiring training in the liberal arts.
Professional: - a person who engages in an activity with great competence.
So a professional person takes on special rights and obligations because of their special claim
to knowledge. This implies that such a professional person must keep the ethical standards
that pertains the profession. The following are some of the ethical issues that have to be
considered:-
o Keep themselves up-to-date with all aspects of their profession. Each profession has
its own ethical code which each individual in the profession has to comply with.
o Any profession requires the practitioner to avoid harm to others.
o The property rights have to be honoured by any professionals. The properties of
other individuals have to be respected.
o A professional is required by ethics to respect the privacy of the firm he is working
with and that of his fellow professionals or employees.
o He has to follow the Moral Imperatives of their Professional Code of Ethics. Each
profession has its own code of ethics.
b. IS ethical dilemmas: -
IS puts so many firms in ethical dilemma as some of their actions go against the ethical
standards. Some of the actions which put an organization against ethics are as follows:-
i. Monitoring individual‘s e-mail to ensure that it is work related in an
organizationcontravenes individual privacy legislation. This denies the professional right to
privacy.
ii. Using database information for purposes other than what it was set up for without
priorconsent. This is done by most professionals but in goes against the ethics of the respect
of firm‘s property and its privacy.
iii. Every effort must be made to ensure the correctness of the data stored in the course
ofthis work the ethical question comes in as illegal methods may be used as long as the data
is accurate.
iv. Illegal copying of software and possible distribution on the WWW. This is unethical
asgoes against respect of other people‘s property.
v. Respect of Intellectual Property Rights and ownership particularly on the WWW. It
maybe hard to respect other people property as with the WWW, it‘s hard to protect your
property.
vi. Other similar examples will be acceptable
gregorymasila answered the question on February 15, 2018 at 16:02
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