COMMERCE 2KA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Trade Secret, Equal Opportunity, Green Computing
9 Apr 2013
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Chapter 4 social, ethical, and legal issues in the digital firm. Ethics: principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviors. Identify and clearly describe the facts: define the conflict or dilemma, and identify the higher- order values involved. Identify the options that you can reasonably take. Managers, employees have to decide what constitutes proper legal and ethical conduct. Managers, employees involved could face legal punishment. Unethical behavior can lead to a firm"s poor reputation. Customers are valuing ethical behavior by firms (examples?) What about information systems: both for social progress and committing crimes: instrumental in unethical action, control issues (chapter 8, huge impact on society: internet, electronic commerce. Golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If an action is not right for everyone to take, then it is not right for anyone.
