ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Carpal Tunnel, Occupational Disease, Inventive Step And Non-Obviousness

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Franklyn Prescod

Document Summary

Chapter 3 social, ethical, and legal issues in the digital firm. Understand ethical and social issues related to systems. Ethics: refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviours. Employees using corporate it for personal use. Easier than ever to assemble, integrate, and distribute information, unleashing new concerns about the appropriate use of customer information, the protection of personal privacy, and the protection of intellectual property. Responsibility: key element of ethical action; accepting the potential costs, duties, and obligations for your decisions. Accountability: feature of systems and social institutions in which mechanisms identify responsible parties (who took responsible action and who is responsible) Ethical analysis: identify and describe the facts clearly, define the conflict or dilemma and identify the higher-order values involved, identify the stakeholders, identify the options that you can reasonably take, identify the potential consequences of your options.