FIT1049 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Acceptable Use Policy, Disclose, Egotism
22 Jun 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
L7: Ethics
Morality
Society’s rules of conduct describing what an individual ought to do and ought not to do in various
situaons
Ethics
The philosophical study of morality, a raonal examinaon into people’s moral beliefs and behaviour
Why should organisations are interesting in being ethical
●Get a good community
●Green scheme may aract customers
●Offers consistency
●Produces good business
●Less stand turnover
●Avoids unfavourable publicity
Here are some Informaon Management Policies that can contribute to an ethical corporate culture:
●Ethical Computer Use Policy
● Informaon Privacy Policy
● Acceptable Use Policy
○Use appropriate websites
○Don’t do unethical acvies
■Hack through our network
■Don’t distribute spam
○Illegal downloading
● Email Privacy Policy
● Internet Use Policy
●An-spam policy
Ethical Theories
Provide a foundaon for solving ethical problems we may encounter. There are number of categories
relang to ethical theories but we will look at rule versus consequences approaches.
Rule Oriented Approaches
●There are rules
●Rules must be followed despite the consequences
●Examples:
○The gold rule : legal interpretaon that takes into account the sense of words)
○Human rights : law governing our rights as people
○Kant : based on the philosophy of Kant
○Ten Commandments
Consequence Oriented Approach
●Making decisions based on the consequence
●No fixed rules
●Each decision must be made on a case by case basis
●Examples:
Document Summary
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