Ethics, Professionalism and Governance File

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Abstract

This short case study is an example where there is a clear clash of interests between an

organization and its employees, with a third party, Diane, caught up in the middle. The

organization represented by the CEO, director of computing and the director of personnel, all

favours a database solution which can seriously compromise the security and confidentiality

of the data of the employees, at the supposed benefit of incurring a lesser cost. Diane, the

designer of the database system, foresees security problems, but is unable to convince the

bosses about the same.

ACS CODE OF ETHICS & PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

Let us first look at what codes of ethics, as set by the ACS (Australian Computer Society,

2014), are in direct confrontation with the attitudes of the CEO and the directors:

1.2.1 THE PRIMACY OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST – For this code, the following three

clauses are being violated:

b) Raise with stakeholders any potential conflicts between your professional activity and

legal or other accepted public requirements;

e) Endeavour to preserve the integrity, security, continuity and utility of ICT;

g) Endeavour to preserve the confidentiality and privacy of the information of others.

This is clearly not followed by the CEO and the directors who seem to be more bothered by

the profits of the business instead of the data losses and unauthorised accesses that might

negatively affect the employees in future.