Intellectual Property Theft- Case 1: You are pressed for time at work to complete a project. However, you realize a co-worker's ideas, along with a segment from commerical sowftware could be included without credit in order to complete the project on time. Options and ethics to consider?
Ethical Theories (Technology)
AMC Moral Imperatives
Theories that will apply best: Traditional Ehtical Theories
Principles that can be used to govern technology, including factors like risk managment and indivdual rights
Codes that will apply best: avoid harm, be honest and trustworthy, respect the work required to produce new ideas, maintain high ethical practice, know and respect rules and strive for high quality
The code consits of 24 imparitives forumlated as statments of personal responsibility in order to guide the ethical conduct of all computing professionals
Ethics by committe, ethics by analogy, empirical ethics, applying traditional ethical theories
Options and What theories/imperatives support
Professional Code of Ethics
Applying general ethical theories to specific cases
Theft, hurting/taking advantage of others, and lying is wrong and can be understood through traditional ethical theories
Contractualism- formulating guidlines people would be willing to adopt as a shared set of rules, based on non-moral or self-interested reasons
General moral imperatives, professional responsibilities, professional leadership principles, compliance with the code
In order to follow all these codes of conduct, theft and the action of lying and cheating should be avoided
Although society and the professional world is always changing, ethical decisions and choosing between right and wrong will always exist
Stealing and taking credit for co-worker and commerical software
Avoid stealing/theft/dishonesty and communicating with boss/trying to formulate own ideas/solutions to the problem
Will not only hurt co-worker, but potentially the other company, own company, reputation and ethical integrity
Supported by all AMC moral imperatives that apply, and general ethical theories such as virtue ethics, universalism and justice
Correct and ethical decision
Assists members in understanding the difference between right and wrong and applying this understanding to decisions
Could be utilized in the situations and other ethical dilemmas in the professional world such as this
Having a set code or way to guide decisions and thought processes can help employees when facing a dilemma such as this, or similar workplace dilemmas