Prelim Question # 4

Ethics is relevant regardless of the type of organization and style of management. It is by this ethics that legal and moral laws are established. IT is not at all excluded from this.

Answer then the following.

1. List down the ethics for computer usage.

(a) The integrity of the systems must be respected.

(b) Privacy of other users must not be intruded upon at any time.
(c) Users must recognize that certain data are confidential and must limit their access to such data to uses in direct performance of their duties.
(d) The rules and regulations governing the use of facilities and equipment must be respected.

(e) Persons responsible for computing devices connected to the network will ensure that those devices are maintained in a secure state in accord with related policy.

(f) No one shall obtain unauthorized access to other users' accounts and files.
(g) The intended use of all accounts, typically for university research, instruction and administrative purposes, must be respected.
(h) Users shall become familiar with and abide by the guidelines for appropriate usage for the systems and networks that they access.

2. WHat common forms of ethic violations happen in the internet and in the organization?
(a) Intentionally using the computer to annoy, harass, terrify, intimidate, threaten, offend or bother another person by conveying obscene language, pictures, or other materials or threats of bodily harm to the recipient or the recipient's immediate family.
(b) Intentionally using the computer to contact another person repeatedly regarding a matter for which one does not have a legal right to communicate, once the recipient has provided reasonable notice that he or she desires such communication to cease (such as debt collection);
(c Intentionally using the computer to disrupt or damage the academic, research, administrative, or related pursuits of another;
(d) Intentionally using the computer to invade the privacy, academic or otherwise, of another or the threatened invasion of the privacy of another.

3. How does ethics affect the decision making of mangers?
Its help to discipline the employee not to destroy the privacy of other user especially in the organization.Recognize the confidentiality of data and limits their access to the data not related to thier job.The ethics can help the management to control the employee.

4. Cite a company which experienced legal or social conflicts because of its violation of ethics. You may check as example the problem of pre-need insurance companies in the Philippines.

Answer: Legacy Insurance company

a. Describe briefly the nature of the problem.
The present problem of company is bankruptcy,they did not recovery of their some asset that they invested in other business, and its take some year to recover it and the plan holder suffer from it.

b. How was this resolved?
As of now they give some product like soap,vitamins,etc.to plan holder while waiting for their money invested in plan to return.

c. Who were affected?
The plan holder is the most affected worry on how to get their money back.

d. What were the damages?
The plan holder can't get their insurance, the company now can't issue new insurance plan because the government stopped them.its impossible to them to raise money to give in their plan holder.

http://www.itc.virginia.edu/policy/ethics.html

http://www.gsw.edu/~oiit/computerpolicy.shtml

Christine Linan