Week 4: BU1173
Ethics and MISS AMANDA
PAANANEN
Professions
Ethical
decision Ethical decision making is the process of
making making a decision which may result in one or
more moral conflicts.
Such process involves the decision maker to:
• Recognize the inherent ethical conflicts
through comprehension, appreciation, and
evaluation of all ethical dimensions of
problem.
• Know the parties involved.
• Understand how the decision will be
implemented and who will be affected.
• Understand and comprehend the impact of
the decision of the parties involved.
Elements OF a good
ETHICAL framework
• Recognizing inherent ethical conflicts through comprehension,
appreciation, and evaluation of all ethical dimensions of problem.
• Understanding the problem and the facts of the problem.
• Knowing the parties involved.
• Being aware of alternatives.
• Demonstrating knowledge of ethical practices.
• Understanding how the decision will be implemented and who
will be affected.
• Understanding the impact the decision will have on the parties
affected.
• Understanding and comprehending the impact of the decision of
the parties involved.
The Goal
The goal of evaluating an ethical
argument is to make sure that
each of the alternatives being
considered is weighted against
all others using the facts at hand.
Types of Ethical Codes
Professional Code: provided to employees in certain industries. Ex. All lawyers follow a code of
conduct for lawyers in their region.
Personal Code: the ethics each individual forms throughout their lifetime, based on all of their
personal experiences.
Institutional Code: the ethics imposed on a professional by the organization they work for. Ex. The
Northern College Policies and Procedures for all employees.
Community Code: the set of ethics and standards used and expected by a geographical region.
Professional Code
Personal Code
Institutional Code
Community
Code
Pillars of Professionalism
Commitment Integrity
Responsibility Accountability
Codes of Ethics
Depending on the domain, ethical codes can take any of
the following forms:
• Principles, which may act as guidelines, references,
or bases for some document
• Public policies, which may include aspects of
acceptable behavior, norms, and practices of a
society or group
• Codes of conduct, which may include ethical
principles
• Legal instruments, which enforce good conduct
through courts
We live in the Information Age!
•The current time period, in this 21st century,
which has experienced a historical shift from
an economy based on industry to an economy
based on information technology
•Also known as the Digital Age
•This has led to the modernization of
information and communication processes
•Many of today’s professionals rely heavily
on the use of technology and the information
that supports it
Information & Data
=gold
Information is valuable now in many
different ways!
• Data is needed to run and operate all • Information and data is used to
technology and information systems commit cyber crimes
• We can access information more • In many ways it is easier to falsify,
easily than any other time in human and illegally extract data using
history information systems and the internet
• People have the ability to gain • Illegal, confidential information is
knowledge and information that they something people can sell to
may not have in the past companies who are compiling even
more data
• Information theft is the most expensive and
fastest rising consequence of cyber crime.
Information Gathering
• The sharing of information between
different companies, who can
benefit from using each other’s
client lists
• We provide companies information
by filling out forms, answering
questionnaires, paying for products,
and even just by using their websites
Putting it all Together
•Once a company has gathered all of this
information, it is useful to them for business
purposes
•This information can also be useful to other
companies, who will often pay good money to
access this information
•Is it ethical for an organization you deal with to do
this without the consent of the customers?
•It has been difficult for legal systems to keep laws
regarding this issue up to date, because technology
keeps providing companies, and individuals with
new and unprecedented ways of doing this
Required Reading:
Kizza, J. (2018). Ethical and Social Issues in the Information
Age (6th ed.) Springer, Cham.
ISBN: 978-3-319-70711-2
Chapter 4 Kizza, pp. 68-76
Images:
https://pixabay.com/
https://www.freepik.com/
wikipedia.com
psychologytoday.com
https://medium.com/dichotomies-in-design/ethics-a-desgin-dichotomy-dc6ee0b4c5e9
https://www.kincounseling.com/blog/getting-off-the-hedonic-treadmill
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/other/hedonic-treadmill/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hedonic-treadmill-we-chasing-rainbows-forever-amit-gupta/
https://www.perfectpotion.com.au/blog/the-scent-of-happiness.html
https://mappalicious.com/2016/06/19/feel-good-vs-feel-purpose-hedonia-and-eudaimonia-as
-separate-but-connected-pathways-to-happiness/
References:
Resources:
Teacherspayteachers.com
