ISYS111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moral Rights, Common Good, Privacy Act 1988
25 May 2018
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ISYS111 – Fundamentals of Business Information Systems
Week 7 Workshop
Essential Question:
• What are the major areas of ethical and privacy concerns due to the use of
information technology?
Ethics:
• Principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices that guide their
behaviour
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General framework for ethical decision making:
Ethical standards:
• Utilitarian approach:
- An ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least
harm
- An approach that does the least impact or most good for customers,
employees, stakeholders, the community and the environment
• Rights approach:
- Maintains that an ethical action is the one that best protects and respects the
moral rights of the effected parties
- Moal ights ilude the ights to ake oe’s hoies aout hat kid of life
to lead, to be told the truth, not to be injured and to a degree of privacy.
These are actually the moral rights that people are entitled to
• Fairness approach
- Ethical actions treat all humans equally, or if unequally, then fairly, based on
some defensible standard.
- For example, the difference between the salaries of employees and the CEO
of a company
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