ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Categorical Imperative, Risk Aversion, Canadian Medical Association

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Robert Hudyma

Document Summary

Lecture 3 notes: social, ethical, and legal issues in the digital firm. Real-world ethical dilemmas: using technology to reduce workforce, selling subscriber information to advertisers, employees using corporate it for personal use, using it to monitor employees. Nonobvious relationship awareness (nora)basic concepts: takes information from of variety of sources to nd non obvious information about someone. Ex) the employee you just hired shares the same number as a listed criminal. Accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for your decisions. Mechanisms for individuals to recover damages done to them. Candidate ethical principles: golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Brie y, the difference is that the categorical imperative spans the entirety of the populace, while the rule of change applies to the decisions of one person over time. For example, the categorical imperative applies to an employee who tries to steal money from his employer.