Ehical and social issues

Yashraj(18) , Jatin(69)By:

UNDERSTANDING ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES RELATED TO SYSTEM

Topics.

A New Legal and Social Environment A MODEL For Thinking About Ethical, Social , And

Politics. Five Moral Dimension Of The Information Age. Key Technology Trends That Raise Ethical Issues.

A New Legal and Social Environment

In the past 10 years, it’s one of the most challenges periods for Asian and global business.

In that some cases demonstrating failed ethical judgment by senior and middle managers.

Example:- The Satyam Computers A Chairman Ramalinga Raju, of this company

produced false accounts to the board to show inflated profits and keep trading of stock.

A New Legal and Social Environment

In today’s new legal environment, managers who break the law and are declare guilty will most likely spend time in prison.

Managers today will have to be careful in making ethical judgment.

Ethics

Principles of right and wrong. Assume individuals are acting as free moral agent

to make choice to guide their behavior.

Information technology create ethics issues because:

(a) IT changes the distribution of decision making rights, and other resources.

Example: IT makes it possible for millions of people to download video files, weakening the distribution for their profit.

Information technology create ethics issues because :

(b) IT creates new opportunities to commit crimes.

Example : E- mail creates the condition for extensive “phishing” or online con games design to defraud ordinary citizen.

A Model For Thinking About Ethical , Social And Politics.

Ethical, social and political issues are closely linked. The ethical is typically reflected in social and

political debate. Imagine society a one pond , a delicate ecosystem

in partial equilibrium with individual and with social and political institution.

Individual knows how to do act in the pond. Because the social institutions have developed

rules of behavior.

Now toss a rock into the center of the pond . What happen? Ripples occur. The new information technology has ripple effects,

raising new ethical, social and political issues that must be dealt with on individual , social and political level.

That issues have a five moral dimensions.

FIVE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF THE INFORMATION AGE

FIVE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF THE INFORMATION AGE

Information rights and obligations(about ourselves, organization).

Property rights and obligation(protection of intellectual property rights).

Accountability and control(who will be held accountable if harm is done).

System quality(standards of data and system quality).

Quality of life(preservation of values, culture).

KEY TECHNOLOGY TRENDS THAT RAISE ETHICAL ISSUES.

Ethical issues long preceded information technology. Nevertheless, information technology has

heightened ethical concerns, taxed existing social arrangements and made some law obsolete or severely crippled.

The doubling of computing power every 18 month has made it possible for most organisation to use information system for their core production process.

Advance in data storage techniques and rapidly declining storage costs have been responsible for the multiplying databases on individuals-employees ,customers and potential customers – maintained by private and public organizations.

These advance in data storage have made the routine violation of individual privacy both cheap and effective.

Ethical issues long preceded information technology. Nevertheless, information technology has

heightened ethical concerns, taxed existing social arrangements and made some law obsolete or severely crippled.

The doubling of computing power every 18 month has made it possible for most organisation to use information system for their core production process.

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