ADM 2337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Free Moral Agents, Information System, Moral Rights
Document Summary
Chapter 4- social, legal, and ethical issues in the digital firm. Understanding ethical and social issues related to systems. Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviours. Information systems raise new ethical questions for both individuals and societies because they create opportunities for intense social change, and this threaten existing distributions of power, money, rights, and obligations. A model for thinking about ethical, social, and political issues. The ethical dilemma faced as a manager of information systems typically is reflected in social and political debate. The major ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems include the following moral dimensions: Information rights and obligations: property rights and obligations, accountability and control, system quality, quality of life. Information technology has heightened ethical concerns, taxed existing social arrangements, and made some laws obsolete or severely crippled.
