Question

Ethics in Information Technology (5th Edition)

Part 2: Code Analysis Use the CSU Online Library or the Internet to search for an example of a professional code of ethics for a professional field outside of information technology. Compare and contrast this code with a code for information technology. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the code designed for a field other than information technology. Be sure to reference the specific ethical approaches (see page 22 in the textbook) that inform your answer. Your response to Part 2 should be at least one paragraph.

TABLE 1-5 Summary of four common approaches to ethical decision making Approach to dealing with ethical issues Principle Virtue ethics approach The ethical choice best reflects moral virtues in yourself and your community. Utilitarian approach The ethical choice produces the greatest excess of benefits over harm. Fairness approach The ethical choice treats everyone the same and shows no favoritism or discrimination. Common good approach The ethical choice advances the common good.

Answer 1

An example of the professional code of ethics for a professional field outside of information technology can be anything like the ethics of a ticket collector or checker in the train. He must check the tickets of the on-boarding passengers if they have genuine tickets for the journey, should fine the passengers accordingly when they find some problem int eh tickets or a passenger carrying incorrect tickets or no tickets. Also, the ticket collector should be wary and work ethically without getting into any bribery cases from the train passengers, where the train passengers may offer bribes to the ticket collector unethically, to let them go for a small charge in replacement for making a genuine ticket. Thus, this can be ethical guidelines and professional code of ethics example.
Computer ethics is the philosophical study or thinking of how computer professionals should act and make decisions regarding the social and professional conduct of software professionals and how the computers should act.
Ethics are an important part of computer science and also the programming and thus software engineers are expected to show the highest standard of the ethics regarding and involving their work. Thus, ethics are an important part of the work and the work in the IT industry or computer research should be ethical always. We all face ethical issues as engineering graduates and also computer science experts and programmers. The ethical issues arise as for when you are asked to do something or take some course of action in the company that you feel did not align with the professional code of ethics for your field. This doesn't feel right, which means there must be something wrong with it. When we further take the matter to our bosses, the did not agree with your interpretation of the code, which literally makes things worse. To get out of this ethical dilemma, we should handle this scenario using the five-step decision-making process as:
a) Recognize the ethical issues - We should recognize the ethical issues and should be sensitive about what is ethical or non-ethical. Also, the decision maker should be analyzing the choices.
b) Factors affecting the decision of the ethical situation should know and each should be given enough weight. Investigation of the relevant facts should be done to understand the decision better.
c) We should also study the choices and then evaluate what is the best choice for different approaches to ethical standards and come up to a choice.
d) This step is about making a decision based on the choice we made and then testing out decision and chek that this solves the problem or not.
e) Once the decision has been made and also tested then only it can be implemented, making sure that the best method and solution has been implemented in the current scenario and also we must pay close attention to all the stakeholders.