In the business world , various organization perform vast number of activities and operations dealing with the society, business partners the governments and other countries too. Now all of these activities need to be carried out based on some guidelines or principles.
From this context the title statement can be justified , this statement is a definition of something called Ethics.
Ethics are those principles and guidelines that help an organization employees to take decisions on whats right and whats wrong in terms of the different activities they carry out on daily bases.
Many people in mix up between ethics and law ,where not any thing unethical is illegal.
For example not giving people the chance to cross the road on non zebra line is not illegal but ethical and vice versa.
As an organization there is a simple process of decision making of ethical matters. This process consist of 8 steps as illustrated in the picture here.
A good point to make is that there there 4 general ethical approaches/definitions :
1- Utilitarian approach > which defines ethics as actions that yield the most good or the lest harm.
2- rights approach > An ethical action is the one that best respects & protects the moral rights of the effected party who can be a customer , employee or company.
3- Fairness Approach > It states that human beings should be treated equally if not equally then fairly based on defensible standards.
4- Common good approach > ethical actions are based on respect and compasion or welfare for everyone in the society.
Ethics in an organization :
Every organization has to develop a document of " Code of Ethics ".
This document assist members in understanding the difference between 'right' and 'wrong' and in applying that understanding to their decisions in their workplace relevant activities.
The basic principles that should be available in any ethical guide are responsibility , accountability and liability.
Relating ethics with information technology its found that as technology advances , more ethical issues are raised.
For instance privacy issues which are concerned with individual's data that is obtained,stored and processed by an organization. Another area of issue would be the accuracy or authenticity of the information stored/used by the organization , who can access this information. So such kind of issues are increasing as more organizations are turning automated due to cheap,easy IT solutions options available to them.
Emphasizing on an exclusive topic which is the PRIVACY.
Now a days individuals argue regarding the extent to which an organisation can obtain,store data about public in its databases "information privacy" , however legally the user's privacy is not absolute , as in some situations "privacy" of a person must be balanced against the needs of the society. You cant be always left alone without being asked or approached to give away information.
In this highly advanced technology era , a users privacy is subjected to some threats like exposing you personal information on the internet through your social media networks, or some un visible electronic suveillance performers who track your browsing history and movements over the internet.
This link bellow is a video interview with Scott Taylor, chief privacy officer in Hewlett-Packard company where he will speak about privacy and how his company tackles this topic.
From this context the title statement can be justified , this statement is a definition of something called Ethics.Ethics are those principles and guidelines that help an organization employees to take decisions on whats right and whats wrong in terms of the different activities they carry out on daily bases.
Many people in mix up between ethics and law ,where not any thing unethical is illegal.
For example not giving people the chance to cross the road on non zebra line is not illegal but ethical and vice versa.
As an organization there is a simple process of decision making of ethical matters. This process consist of 8 steps as illustrated in the picture here.
1- Utilitarian approach > which defines ethics as actions that yield the most good or the lest harm.
2- rights approach > An ethical action is the one that best respects & protects the moral rights of the effected party who can be a customer , employee or company.
3- Fairness Approach > It states that human beings should be treated equally if not equally then fairly based on defensible standards.
4- Common good approach > ethical actions are based on respect and compasion or welfare for everyone in the society.
Ethics in an organization :
Every organization has to develop a document of " Code of Ethics ".This document assist members in understanding the difference between 'right' and 'wrong' and in applying that understanding to their decisions in their workplace relevant activities.
The basic principles that should be available in any ethical guide are responsibility , accountability and liability.
Relating ethics with information technology its found that as technology advances , more ethical issues are raised.
For instance privacy issues which are concerned with individual's data that is obtained,stored and processed by an organization. Another area of issue would be the accuracy or authenticity of the information stored/used by the organization , who can access this information. So such kind of issues are increasing as more organizations are turning automated due to cheap,easy IT solutions options available to them.
Now a days individuals argue regarding the extent to which an organisation can obtain,store data about public in its databases "information privacy" , however legally the user's privacy is not absolute , as in some situations "privacy" of a person must be balanced against the needs of the society. You cant be always left alone without being asked or approached to give away information.
In this highly advanced technology era , a users privacy is subjected to some threats like exposing you personal information on the internet through your social media networks, or some un visible electronic suveillance performers who track your browsing history and movements over the internet.
This link bellow is a video interview with Scott Taylor, chief privacy officer in Hewlett-Packard company where he will speak about privacy and how his company tackles this topic.
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