Similarities in Business and IT Professional Ethics: The Need for and Development of A Comprehensive Code of Ethics |
| |
Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Dinah?PayneEmail author Brett?J?L?Landry |
| |
Institution: | (1) University of New Orleans, Lakefront, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA |
| |
Abstract: | The study of business ethics has led to the development of various principles that are the foundation of good and ethical business practices. A corresponding study of Information Technology (IT) professionals’ ethics has led to the conclusion
that good ethics in the development and uses of information technology correspond to the basic business principle that good
ethics is good business. Ergo, good business ethics practiced by IT professionals is good IT ethics and vice versa. IT professionals are professionals in businesses; a difficulty presented to these professionals, however, is the number
and diversity of codes of ethics to which they may be held. Considering the existence of several formalized codes of ethics
prepared by various IT professionals’ associations, a more harmonized approach seems more reasonable. This paper attempts
to present a review of the purpose of codes of ethics, the persons who should be covered by such codes and to organize codes
of ethics for business in general and IT professionals in particular and to make the argument that, once again, good ethics
is good business practice, regardless of the profession or occupation concerned |
| |
Keywords: | Business ethics codes of ethics computer professional ethics information technology information technology professionals professional ethics |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|