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Assessment 1 Information Technology Ethical Issues in Organizations

Overview

Write 3–5 pages in which you answer several ethics-related questions as they pertain to information technology.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Evaluate information technology ethics and the implications for people and technological practices.

Describe the relationship between information technology and ethics. Competency 2: Evaluate ethical responsibilities of an information technology professional.

Evaluate the need for information technology professionals to have a clear understanding of cyberethics.

Competency 3: Evaluate the ethical issues of information technology found in the current literature and professional organizations.

Identify common information technology ethics dilemmas faced by an organization. Describe how various ethical systems have evolved in the information technology field.

Competency 4: Communicate effectively. Use best communication practices to recommend a method for informing employees about the company's IT ethics policy. Consistently apply appropriate APA style and formatting guidelines for resources, citations, and grammar.

 

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Context

Ethics are concerned with standards of right and wrong. They are the moral principles by which we are guided.

There are multiple reasons ethics are intertwined with information technology (IT) management:

Anything that affects people's lives to the extent that IT has inevitably gives rise to ethical issues. Managers determine how IT is used and, therefore, are responsible for the ethical implications of its use.

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The ease and anonymity with which information can be communicated, copied, and manipulated in online environments challenges traditional rules of right and wrong behavior.

The Assessment 1 Context document contains additional information about IT ethics, covering the following topics:

Information Technology Ethics. Ethics in the Workplace. The Study of Cyberethics. Using Information Technology.

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Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

What are the unique ethical problems you see in IT? Why are you studying computer ethics, also known as cyberethics? How must ethics be related to IT and the information age? What are the four ethical theories? What makes them similar and different?

Resources

Suggested Resources

The following optional resources are provided to support you in completing the assessment or to provide a helpful context. For additional resources, refer to the Research Resources and Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu of your courseroom.

Capella Resources Click the links provided to view the following resources:

Assessment 1 Context.

Library Resources The following e-books and articles from the Capella University Library are linked directly in this course.

Quigley, M. (Ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of information ethics and security. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. Himma, K. E., & Tavani, H. T. (Eds.). (2008). The handbook of information and computer ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Owens, W. A., Dam, K. W., & Lin, H. (Eds.). (2009). Technology, policy, law, and ethics regarding U.S. acquisition and use of cyberattack capabilities. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Kizza, J. M. (2003). Ethical and social issues in the information age (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer- Verlag. Harbert, T. (2007, October). Ethics in IT: Dark secrets, ugly truths. And little guidance. Computerworld, 41(44), 34–36. Albrechtslund, A. (2007). Ethics and technology design. Ethics and Information Technology, 9(1), 63–72. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10676-006-9129-8.

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Rainey, S., & Goujon, P. (2011). Toward a normative ethics for technology development. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 9(3), 157–179. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14779961111167649. Jacob, S., & Armistead, L. (2011, March/April). Ethics and technology: Response to Pfohl–Part I. Communiqué, 39(6), 24–25. Leung, B. P. (2011, March/April). Upgrading to SP 4.0. Communiqué, 39(6), 24. Hollander, R. (2013). Computing ethics: Ethics viewpoints efficacies. Communications of the ACM, 56(3), 33–34. doi:10.1145/2428556.2428567. Woodbury, M. (2000, June). The bout of the century? Information ethics vs. e-commerce. Ubiquity.

Course Library Guide A Capella University library guide has been created specifically for your use in this course. You are encouraged to refer to the resources in the IT-FP3165 – Ethics for the Information Technology Professional Library Guide to help direct your research.

Skillsoft Tutorial Skillsoft. (n.d.). Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH): Social engineering [Tutorial].

Internet Resources Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.

Velasquez, M., Andre, C., Shanks, T., & Meyer, M. J. (n.d.). Thinking ethically. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Retrieved from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v7n1/thinking.html Velasquez, M., Moberg, D., Meyer, M. J., Shanks, T., McLean, M. R., DeCosse, D., ... & Hanson, K. O. (2009). A framework for ethical decision making. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Retrieved from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/framework.html Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. (n.d.). Using codes of ethics. Retrieved from http://ethics.iit.edu/ecodes/using-codes-ethics Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. (2011). Code of ethics for IT professionals. Retrieved from http://ethics.iit.edu/ecodes/node/3115 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.acm.org/ Gehringer, E. F. (n.d.). Ethics in computing. Retrieved from http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/ EC-Council. (n.d.). Code of ethics. Retrieved from http://www.eccouncil.org/about_us/code_of_ethics.aspx

Bookstore Resources The resources listed below are relevant to the topics and assessments in this course and are not required. Unless noted otherwise, these materials are available for purchase from the Capella University Bookstore. When searching the bookstore, be sure to look for the Course ID with the specific –FP (FlexPath) course designation.

Tavani, H. T. (2016). Ethics and technology: Controversies, questions, and strategies for ethical computing (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

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Assessment Instructions

Use the Capella library and other sources to research ethics issues and concerns specific to information technology in organizations. You may wish to start with the books and articles included in the Resources.

Given your personal experience with IT ethics issues and the research you have done, write 3–5 pages in which you address the following points:

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1. Describe at least three types of ethical problems that organizations commonly face that are specific to information technology and how they should be handled.

2. Evaluate the need for information technology professionals to have a clear understanding of cyberethics.

3. Describe how various ethical systems have evolved in the information technology field.

4. Recommend a method for informing employees about the company's IT ethics policy.

5. Conclude by describing the relationship between information technology and ethics in the workplace.

You are welcome and encouraged to use real-world scenarios as examples where relevant.

Additional Requirements

Include a title page and a references page. Include an introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph. Include a minimum of three research resources in your paper. Be sure to follow APA guidelines for style and formatting. Your finished assessment should be approximately 3–5 pages in length, excluding the title page and references page.

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