Description
The central emphasis of the ppt is based on – a four sphere framework for teaching & learning based on Prof. Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. of Harvard Business School.
Business Ethics and Information Technology
Four Sphere Framework
• Personal Ethical Values
– It consists of the duties, commitments, an ideal that shape and guide an individual’s lives
• Responsibilities as Economic Agent
– The ethical duty involves a promise to use the owners’ resources in the ways that the owners want them to be used
• Responsibilities as Organizational Leaders
– Relates to obligations as leaders of the companies within which business managers exercise enormous power. With this power comes responsibility
• Responsibilities in Cooperative Capitalism
– Community interdependence and strategic alliance with outside groups such as customers, suppliers, local communities, government agencies and other stakeholders
Four Sphere Framework
Personal Ethical Values
Resp in Cooperative Capitalism
Business Ethics
Resp. as Economic Agent
Resp as Orgn Leaders
Data for Sale
• National Student Loan Data System
• Initiated by the US Department of Education • Objective:
– to make it easier for lenders to evaluate candidates for student loans and collect these loans – For students to keep track of their loans
• Good solution but data was misused
– System was used to market products & services to borrowers and their families – Unauthorized users such as marketing firms, debt collection agencies, brokerage firms were given access to data
• Way2sms, Just Dial services….
Data for Sale
• ChoicePoint
– One of the largest data brokers – Builds its vast repository of personal data thru extensive network of contractors who gather information from
• Public filings, financial services firms, phone directories, loan applications • Police and criminal records, school districts, dept of motor vehicles and local courts
• Company sells this personal information to businesses and government
The Risks with ChoicePoint
• Threat they pose to personal privacy and social wellbeing • Quality of data can be unreliable
– Boston Market fired an employee after receiving a background check from ChoicePoint that showed felony convictions. However this report was wrong – A GE assembly line worker was charged high premium becoz another person’s driving record with multiple accidents had been added to his ChoicePoint file
Perils of the Internet
Cyberbullying What else?
What is the ethical dilemma facing Wal-Mart in using a computerized scheduling system from Kronos?
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING AT WAL-MART
Should Google organize your medical records
• Google Health
– To eliminate paper based medical record systems – Consumers enter basic medical data into online repository and invite doctors to send relevant information to Google electronically. – Google’s mission
• To organize world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful
– Where is the conflict here? – What are the risks and concerns? – The ethical dilemma?
What are the ethical Issues related to IT enabled Businesses
doc_698690296.pptx
The central emphasis of the ppt is based on – a four sphere framework for teaching & learning based on Prof. Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. of Harvard Business School.
Business Ethics and Information Technology
Four Sphere Framework
• Personal Ethical Values
– It consists of the duties, commitments, an ideal that shape and guide an individual’s lives
• Responsibilities as Economic Agent
– The ethical duty involves a promise to use the owners’ resources in the ways that the owners want them to be used
• Responsibilities as Organizational Leaders
– Relates to obligations as leaders of the companies within which business managers exercise enormous power. With this power comes responsibility
• Responsibilities in Cooperative Capitalism
– Community interdependence and strategic alliance with outside groups such as customers, suppliers, local communities, government agencies and other stakeholders
Four Sphere Framework
Personal Ethical Values
Resp in Cooperative Capitalism
Business Ethics
Resp. as Economic Agent
Resp as Orgn Leaders
Data for Sale
• National Student Loan Data System
• Initiated by the US Department of Education • Objective:
– to make it easier for lenders to evaluate candidates for student loans and collect these loans – For students to keep track of their loans
• Good solution but data was misused
– System was used to market products & services to borrowers and their families – Unauthorized users such as marketing firms, debt collection agencies, brokerage firms were given access to data
• Way2sms, Just Dial services….
Data for Sale
• ChoicePoint
– One of the largest data brokers – Builds its vast repository of personal data thru extensive network of contractors who gather information from
• Public filings, financial services firms, phone directories, loan applications • Police and criminal records, school districts, dept of motor vehicles and local courts
• Company sells this personal information to businesses and government
The Risks with ChoicePoint
• Threat they pose to personal privacy and social wellbeing • Quality of data can be unreliable
– Boston Market fired an employee after receiving a background check from ChoicePoint that showed felony convictions. However this report was wrong – A GE assembly line worker was charged high premium becoz another person’s driving record with multiple accidents had been added to his ChoicePoint file
Perils of the Internet
Cyberbullying What else?
What is the ethical dilemma facing Wal-Mart in using a computerized scheduling system from Kronos?
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING AT WAL-MART
Should Google organize your medical records
• Google Health
– To eliminate paper based medical record systems – Consumers enter basic medical data into online repository and invite doctors to send relevant information to Google electronically. – Google’s mission
• To organize world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful
– Where is the conflict here? – What are the risks and concerns? – The ethical dilemma?
What are the ethical Issues related to IT enabled Businesses
doc_698690296.pptx