ales representatives and employee will all lose their jobs. This is an example of an ethical dilemma. According to the (Markkula, 2003) Center for Applied Ethics, there are five points to consider when making an ethical decision.
• Evaluate the alternative actions from various moral perspectives.
• Act, then Reflect on the decision later.
Many businesses have a written code of ethics or rules which employees are supposed to follow in their decision making. Failure to obey these codes often results in penalties for the employees.
There are many ethical issues in information systems and technology. The four that will be concentrated on are: privacy, accuracy, property, and access. Privacy is about keeping personal information in your own hands or there self. If people do not have privacy they may feel threatened and violated because there is always a level of personal space that a person likes to maintain. Companies usually use Information systems to greatly reduce people's privacy to keep a track of what is going on in there business and to make sure people are doing what they are suppose to be doing on company time. Some ways that companies do this by recording information about there employees. (Rappa, 2003)
Some of the other ways that information is recorded about people is credit cards. Every time a person purchases something on a credit card or uses frequent shopper cards information about them is recorded. From this information firms can create large mailing lists containing personal information which includes age, preferences, what a person buys, when a
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