ADMS 2511 Lecture 3: Chapter 3 Notes
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Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices to guide their behaviors. Code of ethics: collection of principles intended to guide decision making by members of the organization. Tenets of ethics include responsibility, accountability and liability. Responsibility: you accept the consequence of your decision and actions. Accoutability: provides for a determination of who is responsible for actions that were taken. Liability: lgal concept implying that individuals have the right to recover the damages done to them by other individuals, organizations or systems. Improvements in information technologies are causing an increasing number of ethical problems. Problems such as appropriate use of customer information, personal privacy and the protection of intellectual property. Diversity and ever expanding use of it applications have created a variety of ethical issues. These fall into four categories: privacy, accuracy, property and accessibility. Privacy issues: involves the collection, storage and dissemination of information about individuals.