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Chapter 8: Ethical and Professional Issues - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 8: Ethical and Professional Issues
8.1 Innovation Social Issues in IT
Innovation: improvement on something that has already been invented
Types of Innovation
Produce new goods previously unknown for customers
Introduce new production process previously unknown in industry
Exploiting new markets
New sources of purchasing raw materials and semi-prepared products
New ways of organizing business activities
Rules of Innovation
Innovation disrupt the status quo
Innovations are a shared responsibility
People affected by and have an effect on an innovation
Successful innovations require continual modifications
Innovations are new to a community
Features matter
Communication Paradigm:
pattern or model that allows people to communicate to another person in order to give information about people needs and desires.
8.2 Culture: Eastern, Western & Malaysian Societies
Cultural Dimension
Creating change
Capability development
Team Innovation
Customer focus
Empowerment
Organizational training
Ways to build culture innovation
Curiosity
Empathy
Open mind
Take risks
Trust
8.3 Evolution of Computer Technology Impact Digital Generation
Digital Generation:
generation of children who’ve grown up with video games, computers, touch-screen tablets, mobile phones and virtual reality
Video
Positive impact
Enhanced teaching and learning
Globalization
No geographical limitation
Negative impact
Declining writing skills
Increasing incidents of cheating
Lack of focus
Impact on human body
Emotional instability
Strained vision
Hearing lost
8.4 Professional Ethics and Responsibilities
Professional ethics:
ethics that a person must adhere to in respect of their interactions and business dealings in their professional life.
Computer Professional Responsibility
Maintaining relationship toward customers, clients, coworker, employees and employers.
Making critical decisions that have significant consequences for many people.
Determining how to manage, select, or use computer in a professional setting.
ACM Code
More specific professional responsibilities
Organizational leadership imperatives
General more imperatives
Compliance with code
Ethical Views
Natural Rights: derived from nature of humanity
Consequentialist: Consider the consequences for all affected
people.
Deontological: emphasizes duty and absolute rules
Reaching the Right Decision: The computer professional must consider trade-offs.
8.5 The Ethical Guidlines for Computer Professionals
Software Engineering Code
Client & employer: Software engineers shall act in a manners that
is in the best interests of their client and employer consistent with the public interest.
Product: Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
Public: Software engineers shall acts consistently with the public interest.
Judgement: Software engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
Self: Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.
Management: Software engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintanence.
Profession: Software engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
Colleagues: Software engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.