1. Yashraj(18) , Jatin(69)By:
UNDERSTANDING
ETHICAL AND SOCIAL
ISSUES RELATED TO
SYSTEM

2. Topics.
 A New Legal and Social Environment
 A MODEL For Thinking About Ethical, Social , And
Politics.
 Five Moral Dimension Of The Information Age.
 Key Technology Trends That Raise Ethical Issues.

3. A New Legal and Social Environment
 In the past 10 years, it’s one of the most challenges
periods for Asian and global business.
 In that some cases demonstrating failed ethical
judgment by senior and middle managers.
 Example:- The Satyam Computers
 A Chairman Ramalinga Raju, of this company
produced false accounts to the board to show
inflated profits and keep trading of stock.

4. A New Legal and Social Environment
 In today’s new legal environment, managers who
break the law and are declare guilty will most likely
spend time in prison.
 Managers today will have to be careful in making
ethical judgment.

5. Ethics
 Principles of right and wrong.
 Assume individuals are acting as free moral agent
to make choice to guide their behavior.

6.  Information technology create ethics issues because:
 (a) IT changes the distribution of decision making
rights, and other resources.
 Example: IT makes it possible for millions of people to
download video files, weakening the distribution for
their profit.

7.  Information technology create ethics issues
because :
 (b) IT creates new opportunities to commit crimes.
 Example : E- mail creates the condition for
extensive “phishing” or online con games design to
defraud ordinary citizen.

8. A Model For Thinking About Ethical
, Social And Politics.
 Ethical, social and political issues are closely linked.
 The ethical is typically reflected in social and
political debate.
 Imagine society a one pond , a delicate ecosystem
in partial equilibrium with individual and with
social and political institution.
 Individual knows how to do act in the pond.
 Because the social institutions have developed
rules of behavior.

9.  Now toss a rock into the center of the pond .
 What happen? Ripples occur.
 The new information technology has ripple
effects, raising new ethical, social and political
issues that must be dealt with on individual , social
and political level.
 That issues have a five moral dimensions.

10. FIVE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF THE
INFORMATION AGE

11. FIVE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF THE
INFORMATION AGE
 Information rights and obligations(about
ourselves, organization).
 Property rights and obligation(protection of
intellectual property rights).
 Accountability and control(who will be held
accountable if harm is done).
 System quality(standards of data and system
quality).
 Quality of life(preservation of values, culture).

12. KEY TECHNOLOGY TRENDS THAT RAISE
ETHICAL ISSUES.
 Ethical issues long preceded information
technology.
 Nevertheless, information technology has
heightened ethical concerns, taxed existing social
arrangements and made some law obsolete or
severely crippled.
 The doubling of computing power every 18 month
has made it possible for most organisation to use
information system for their core production
process.

13.  Advance in data storage techniques and rapidly
declining storage costs have been responsible for
the multiplying databases on individuals-
employees ,customers and potential customers –
maintained by private and public organizations.
 These advance in data storage have made the
routine violation of individual privacy both cheap
and effective.

14.  Ethical issues long preceded information
technology.
 Nevertheless, information technology has
heightened ethical concerns, taxed existing social
arrangements and made some law obsolete or
severely crippled.
 The doubling of computing power every 18 month
has made it possible for most organisation to use
information system for their core production
process.

15. Question & Queries…
…If any