The document discusses ethical and social issues related to information systems. It covers topics like a new legal environment for business with examples of failed ethical judgments, a model for thinking about ethical issues with ripple effects from new technologies, and five moral dimensions of the information age around information rights, property rights, accountability, system quality, and quality of life. It also discusses key technology trends like increasing computing power, data storage advances, and their impact in heightening ethical concerns and challenging existing social arrangements.

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