...Information Systems Ethical Issues Mrs. Monique Morris Intro to Management Information Systems – CIS 109 Strayer University Professor Masudur Chowdhury 09/06/2015 INFORMATION SYSTEMS’ ETHICAL ISSUES What are the ethical issues facing information systems? Ethical issues in information systems are a growing problem, with the advancement of technology. Everyone is using computers and the internet for personal tasks every day. People use the internet for paying bills, managing bank accounts and also for business transactions. The technologists in control of these information systems need to have great morals, and not be tempted to violate their ethics. The ten commandments of computer ethics are very similar to business ethics, and personal ethics. (Bidgoli, 2014) Basically, the commandments are for guidance to not do any harm or wrong towards another individual. There are laws against many of the issues with the information industry. For example, it is illegal to steal someone’s identity or personal information. Unfortunately, this is becoming more of a problem, the more people use computers for personal tasks. What are the more serious violations of ethics? One of the ten commandments of computer ethics is “Thou shalt not use a computer to steal.” (Bidgoli, 2014) This has got to be the most widely violated ethical issue. It is difficult to meet someone who has not been a victim of this violation. Identity theft is stealing. Unfortunately, to violate this particular...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 3 BODY 3 Diversity Management 4 Ethical, Social, and Legal Responsibilities 5 International Business 5 General Planning & Strategic Planning 6 Organizing Work and Synergism 6 Organization Structure and Chart 7 Work Team Utilization 8 Staffing 8 Employee Training and Development 9 Motivating Employees 9 Leadership and Management 10 Managing Conflict and Stress 11 Managing Change 11 Controlling 12 Appraising and Rewarding 13 Operations Management and Plans 13 Operations Control 14 CONCLUSION 15 REFERENCES 16 INTRODUCTION September 27th marked the twelfth birthday of search engine empire Google. This “easy to use, searchable directory” (Goldman, 2008) initially operated out of a couple of dorm rooms and a garage serving Stanford University’s needs. Now, the monster processes over 150 million searches a day—a number that grows with every day that passes, has about 10,000 employees and is headquartered out of their “Googleplex” in Mountain View, California. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin baptized their baby with the name Google which derives from “googol—a mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros” (Corporate Overview...
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...employee but also for the employer of the organization who should have ethical standards in the place established by the leaders of the organization. To have a more in-depth understanding of the importance of a powerful ethical value in a business organization the role of ethics should be explained to include social responsibility, and sustainability in relation to organizational strategies. Various types of shareholders should be examined that influence a company’s strategy. Identify at least one example of a company that exemplifies sustainability and social responsibility in their operation. Factors that may have a negative or positive effect on an organization strategy are ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability. A company’s ethical value can have a far-reaching effect on the following areas of an organization: Business Policies also known as code of ethics, this visible feature of a company’s appliance policies and procedures regarding things such as promotion of diversity and discrimination among the consumers and employees of their organization. Ensuring a diverse and unbiased organization will allow business to increase the odds of attracting a wider variety of future consumers, investors and employees to their organization, regardless of one’s race, gender, or religion preference. In addition to maintain a diverse workplace it also can have a positive effect on the credibility of the company and the ability to become a more creative and innovative with ideas...
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...Factors Team A Executives, managers and companies, would not exist if these four fundamentals were not applied; planning, organizing, leading and managing. It takes these four key elements to run a business no matter how small or large the business is. Planning is the first function; here is where expectations and goals are set to be achieved. Organizing is next, here is where management assembles and coordinates human, financial, physical, informational and other resources needed to achieve the goals (Bateman & Snell, 2011). From there, we move onto leading; where management shows that they are good leaders. By stimulating their employees in a positive way to produce and perform at exceptional high rates with quality work. Lastly, there is managing. Bateman and Snell (2011) stated, "By managing, managers make sure the company's resources are being used as planned and that the business is meeting its goals" (p. 16). These four functions affect a business internally as well as externally as well as globalization, technology, innovation, diversity and ethics. Globalization externally has become more popular since companies now able to access the internet. Before the internet companies would have to search for a product locally, now with the internet companies have the option to search and order a part from any part of the world as well as selling their product. Globalization internally allows a business to be based in another country; managers would not work the typical nine...
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...like a part of everyday life. The nation’s response is to inform students of ethical conduct and hold organizations to a higher standard. This will hold CEOs and management responsible for all fraudulent acts committed by an organization. The ethical spotlight has now turned to CEO compensation due to the recent decline in the economy. The focus point of those public discussions has been to try and get a better position to influence CEO compensation packages. Determining a CEO compensation package and commitment that does not place undue pressure on the CEO to taint financial statements, provide excessive perks, approve stock option scandals to occur, and let outrageous severance packages could be a giant step in the right direction toward an ethical foundation in the business community. Perhaps CEO compensation packages are not the cause of corporate scandals, but sometimes they do push CEOs into making improper and unethical decisions. The relationship between CEO compensation is parallel to being an ethical company, and having long term success Executive compensation has risen significantly in past ten years. These increases are difficult to comprehend considering profits and stock prices of the only increased by 11% and 23% respectively as of 2008. Although the increase in market value created an environment for increasing compensation without much criticism from outsiders, are these levels ethical? The economic principle of supply and demand offers an explanation of the...
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...suppositional statement is often effective” (DuBrin, 2009). To be a mentor one need to engage themselves outside the work force to learn of the wide range of helping behaviors, like being a trusted friend and coach (DuBrin, 2009). I have worked with many difficult people, know-it-alls, blamers, and No-people. With know-it-alls it’s easy to shake your head yes and smile, but when this type asks you to do something and you know it’s the wrong way, I will do it the way I have either always done it knowing it is the right way, or reconfirm with another to make sure if I do it the way the know-it-all wants me to is okay. Blamers can be difficult and unethical. Depending on the situations I may take the blame, sometimes turning it around or correcting the blamer makes you look worse than just taking the blame. No people are the easiest for me to deal with. When one is negative, keeping a positive attitude sometimes influences the negative, being around certain people rubs off; hopefully it’s the positive that rubs off on the negative. I think that the only way to know if others see you as a difficult person is ask, and for someone to tell you you’re a difficult person. Dealing...
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...Ethical Culture Project PART 1: Enron displayed all four cultural dimensions which are: high-risk taking, outcome orientation, aggressiveness, and low/no people orientation as a company. Kenny Lay, who was the CEO and Chairman from 1985-2002, displayed high-risk taking during the Vahalla scandal. He had two oil traders, Louis Borget and Tom Mastroeni that would make bets for Enron on whether the price of oil would rise or fall. This is a risky market because you can lose ten times your original investment, and it was hard to make the amount of money legitimately that they were at the time. Borget and Mastroeni were gambling with Enron’s money. Jeff Skilling organized high-risk company trips where he would plan dangerous activities that Enron employees would participate in. Andy Fastow, Enron’s chief financial officer, wanted to please his boss, Skilling, so he tried to increase Enron’s stock up even though they were 30 million dollars in debt. He got hundreds of special companies to prop up Enron’s stock by making Enron debt disappear. To outside investors it looked like cash was coming in, but Enron was hiding their debt in Fastow’s companies so investors couldn’t see it. Fastow was participating in outcome orientation, and Skilling encouraged him to do so. Skilling created a very aggressive company culture for Enron by implementing a performance review committee (PRC) that people were graded a one to a five and 10% people had to be a five and if they were they would be fired...
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...identified in the areas of organizational behavior models of individual, group and organizational processes; how ethical decisions are made; and concepts of individual differences, personality traits, and perspectives. According to Hellriegel & Slocum (2011) the characteristics of a Consensual Relationship Agreement (CRA) is defined as being “a written “contract” in which the romantically involved parties acknowledge the following: • Their relationship is voluntary and consensual. • They agree to abide by the employer’s antidiscrimination, antiharrassment, and workplace conduct policies. • They promise to report any perceived harassment to management, if it occurs. • They agree to behave professionally and now allow the relationship to affect their performance. • They agree to avoid behavior that offends others in the workplace. • They agree not to engage in favoritism. This is especially an issue if one of the employees is in a higher management position and has the authority to influence rewards available to the other employee.” Thesis Statement: In analyzing the case, “Consensual Relationship Agreements”, the following categories will be addressed: (1) Argue for the use of Consensual Relationship Agreements in your current (or future) workplace; (2) Create a counter argument against the use of CRAs in your current (or future) workplace; (3) Discuss the ethical principles involved in the use of CRAs; and (4) create at least one (1) other option besides CRAs that would address...
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...at least ten (10) references from at least four (4) academic and peer reviewed journal articles create a commentary on four areas of management thought you consider to be most relevant to the effective management of contemporary organisations. Campus: [Insert here] Lecture time: [Insert here] Lecturer: [Insert here] Tutor: [Insert here] Word Count: 1500 [Insert here your chosen assignment topic here] We live in an era which has brought a new workplace, leaving behind the traditional ones. Leading to the practices which depicts that there is no any single factor that delivers a better advantage to the organization than an effective and capable manager or management. Organizations are rapidly changing and with that the nature of work too. Doing work apart from the traditional way is todays approach. The top management should define the goals and objectives to the subordinates, enhance coordination with them and promote a culture of interpersonal contacts with subordinates and guide them in finding the optimal solution to the problems. Apparently, the organization whose managers are efficient can achieve all these in an effective manner and much faster than an organization without them. The effective manager is one who shows commitment to its people. The nature of leadership comprises of the person's own personal qualities and the environment in which the company has its activities. For effective management of the organization the good manager keeps in mind...
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... Personal Ethics Development Paper In researching for this paper I find there are many arguments of weather personal ethics can be taught or not, from what I have read they can be taught. According to Trevino and Nelson (2011) “Ethical behavior relies on more than good character” (p. 17). A person can have the best upbringing where they are provided with a moral compass which does help one to determine the right direction, as well as helping them to determine the correct direction and follow through with a decision to do what is right (Trevino and Nelson, 2011). Trevino and Nelson (2011) state “The principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing and individual or organization” ethics form the basis for determining the correct action, or moral behavior, in a particular situation (p. 17). In order for any group or organization to be a success, whether it is a community, family unit or business they need to set and agree with, ethics and rules of behavior. When anyone shares the same ethical standards builds a harmonious situation for all involved. Among our culture and other cultures there are ethical codes that are alike and are agreed upon. For example within our nation and others dishonesty is frowned upon, steeling, abusing individuals or animals in not tolerated and is believed to be unethical. When you think of what makes a person ethical in your eyes you look for a person that is trustworthy, responsible, caring, respectful or others and fair to all. As a child...
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...TOPIC: Describe what it means to be a modern team leader. Describe the different types of teams and critically analyze the challenges modern managers face in contemporary business organizations. Introduction Leadership, it crosses people mind of powerful leaders who control victorious armies, develop religions, lead nations. So how could they do such a great job in leading? What are the factors to become a modern team leader? Leadership is defined as an influencing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through change (Lussier & Achua 2010, p. 6). This paper is going to analyze modern leadership and the challenges leaders could face critically in contemporary business organizations. Specifically, the paper starts with the traits and styles of a manager. Leadership Are leaders born or made? It is not easy to say that what the traits of leaders are, but there are some that can outline the differences between leaders from others. The first one is dominance, this does not mean that the leaders are bossy or use a bullying style. They just want to compete and influence. High energy should be the next one, managers or leaders with high energy is willing to work hard. They want to achieve the goal has set and always deal with it in a positive attitude. Self-confidence, every single leader should have. According to Peter Stark (2012) ‘people like to work with leader who are truly confident’, people tend to trust others more when they appear confident...
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...world. As many organizations today strategic planning is a must in order to excel in today’s world of business. We will take a look at the need, direction and provide guidance as to how factors such as environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and evaluation and control can all play a role in creating a strategic plan for Riordan Manufacturing. Strategic planning Strategic planning brings on new and different perspectives from other sources. It allows the opportunities for round table discussions, brainstorming, and an opportunity to hire consultants to keep the company abreast of new trends, customer wants, needs and desires. Strategic planning also allows for an organization to create a plan for placing mitigating measures in case problems occur. If the plan should not go in the direction of outline goal, such as funding issues, staffing issues, and or management issues mitigating courses of action should be detailed and outlined in a strategic plan. As all successful companies the goal is to stay strong, positive, and continue to be successful for the long term. It is of most importance to establish a plan of where the company would like to see...
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...EthicHow to Be An Ethical Accountant? About eleven years ago, Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies with 21,000 employees (Enron Corporation, 2012), collapsed. The whole nation was shocked as the investigation went on. “Ten years ago this week, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen sealed its fate when a few partners in its Houston office decided to shred documents related to the collapse of one of its clients, Enron” (Agnes, 2011). Found out that Enron scandal had close relationship with the fraud of the accounting firm Arthur Anderson, “another problem whose effects are becoming apparent today — moral hazard in the audit industry” (Agnes, 2011). Business and society take into serious consideration about ethics and integrity standard among today’s accounting firms and their accountants. Meanwhile, how to become an ethical accountant is drawing widespread concern. The first thing to figure out is why ethics are so important to every single accountant. To start with, accountant is actually a third party job working with clients and their private information. This information includes personal bank account number, social security number, and other information about their personal properties. Who would give all these sensitive data are to someone they don’t trust? Citizens will suffer if people who want to harm them get their private information. What’s worse, organization may face unfair competition due to the leak of company core data. Clients would like to trust...
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...course of action they choose, something of important value will be offended. How can an organisation prepare its decision makers for such situations? This article presents a pedagogical approach to dilemma training for business leaders and managers. It has evolved through ten years of experience with human resource development, where ethics has been an integral part of programs designed to help individuals to become excellent in their professional roles. The core element in our approach is The Navigation Wheel, a figure used to keep track of relevant decision factors. Feedback from participants indicates that dilemma training has helped them to recognise the ethical dimension of leadership. They respond that the tools and concepts are highly relevant in relation to the challenges that occur in the working environment they return to after leadership training. Keywords: business ethics, leadership training, dilemma Introduction The purpose of this article is to present a pedagogical approach to dilemma training for business managers and leaders. In the past ten years we have been responsible for ethical training sessions in programs designed to help individuals develop their leadership skills. We have used elements from moral philosophy in attempts to cultivate the participants’ theoretical understanding of the morally challenging situations they can encounter in their practice as managers and leaders. This experience has given us the opportunity to bring philosophical...
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...EST 1-320.2.3-08 Lisa Jeffries 000238303 Code of Ethics In the outline below, I have listed some of the company’s codes of ethics. The company has the obligation to enforce the code of ethics, procedures, training, and to set up meetings for the employees and employer to discuss better ways of serving clients and providing a safer environment for employees. Mission statement: To be the leading systems, services and solutions provider in the world by exceeding customers' expectations through superior service delivery, world-class talent and applied technological innovation, making this the most profitable business s company. The company makes the customer service experience the "Best in Class". Maximize shareholder value through focus on revenue growth, return on capital and retention of our customers and employees. Introduce new technology to satisfy the current and future needs of our customers. A. Code of Ethics • All employees shall follow all applicable local, state, and federal codes, standards and licensing and permitting laws and ordinances regarding regulations for service and installations and any requirements for such. This includes, but is not limited to all local and state permitting, local and state licensing and local and state adopted codes and standards where required • Employees will not accept gifts from clients • Employees must sign a commitment to confidentiality contract ...
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