Reference no: EM134044198 , Length: Word Count:4500
Professional Issues in IS Ethics & Practice
Assignment Description
This assignment will be based on skills and knowledge attained from lecture and tutorial materials and related activities. The students will be required to analyse the provided scenarios from an Ethics and Security perspective and answer some critical thinking questions. Also, the group is required to use the five-step decision-making process to analyse and recommend a course of action.
Task 1 - 5- Step Decision Making Model and Ethical Dilemmas.
Scenario 1: You are a new employee at a four-star restaurant. You and several other employees have been asked by your manager to begin posting positive messages about your dining experience at the restaurant on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Truth be told, the restaurant is living on its past reputation. The menu is boring, the food is overpriced, the carpet is worn thin, and the booths need to be repaired. You would not choose to dine at the restaurant. What would you do?
Scenario 2: Your manager is leading a project to develop new software that is essential to the success of the midsized manufacturing firm where you work. The firm has decided to hire outside contractors to execute the project. One candidate firm boasts that its software development practices are at level 4 of CMMI. Another firm claims that all its software development practices are ISO 9001 compliant. Your manager has come to you and asked for your opinion on how much weight should be given to these certifications when deciding which firm to use. What would you say?
Scenario 3: As a relatively new hire within a large multinational firm, you are extremely pleased with the many challenging assignments that have come your way. Now another new hire with whom you have become friends is seeking your input on an important decision that she must make within the next week. She has been told that the firm has decided to cut costs in her department by outsourcing a large portion of the department's work to an offshore resource firm that has an excellent reputation. Your friend would remain with the firm to oversee the transition of work to the outsourcing firm including training the new workers, establishing performance benchmarks and measures, tracking results, and providing ongoing feedback to management both at your firm and the outsourcing firm. She is very concerned that there will be great tension as some 25 workers are replaced and feels that some of their anger will be directed at her. She is also concerned that once the start-up issues are resolved and things are running smoothly, she will be let go. What advice would you offer your friend?
Scenario 4: Your financial adviser wants you to allow his firm to manage your funds using an artificial intelligence software product that will constantly monitor your account 24 × 7 and make investment decisions consistent with your financial goals and the level of risk with which you are comfortable. The services fee will be reduced from your current 1 percent per year of total assets to 0.75 percent per year. What questions would you ask to decide if an artificial intelligence software was right for you?
Your tasks:
Each group member must select ONE of the above scenarios and apply the 5-step decision making model to explain the major ethical issues/dilemmas involved.
Make recommendations based on your analysis providing justifications. And in the report summary:
Include a Reference list at the end of your work using the correct referencing style.
Task 2 - Case Study on Ethical Issues and Legal Aspects
Ethisphere is a leading US organisation that has been helping their clients (Dell, Sony, Zoom, FedEx, Colgate and others) transform Ethics and Compliance issues into business advantage. One of the key publications that Ethisphere has compiled and published is listed as The biggest ethics and compliance issues of 2025 so far. It presents a chronological list of headlines related to the Ethical and compliance issues are they emerge.
Among some of these issues are:
Discrimination
Fraud
Conflict of Interests
Corporate Social Responsibility
Your tasks:
Each group member must select ONE of the above issues and conduct your own research to define the major ethical issues/dilemmas involved.
Identify the legal consequences of the issue listing the major legislative measures.
Make recommendations based on your analysis providing justifications. And in the report summary:
Include a Reference list at the end of your work using the correct referencing style.
Task 3 - Case Study on Cybersecurity & Cybercrime
Information Technology and System
Scamwatch is an Australian Government Initiative, run by the National Anti-Scam Centre to collect reports about scams with the aim of warning unsuspecting Australians and to take action to stop scams. As the topic on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime introduced the students to various Cybersecurity and Crime issues, the following scams are more commonly reported in Australia:
Threat Scams
Account or Identity takeover scams
In person scams
Jobs and Employment scams
Your tasks: Each group member must select ONE of the above scams and analyse the particular scam, considering the motivations, attack modes, Identify potential protection mechanisms against the scams and the potential penalties for the scam under the existing legislation in Australia
Make a recommendation based on your analysis providing reasons for this recommendation. And in the report summary:
Include a Reference list at the end of your work using the correct referencing style.
Deliverable Description
The report format must contain:
Introduction (200 words)
Introduction of the report, important definitions, and theoretical elements
5- Step Decision Making Model and Ethical Dilemmas. (1200 words - 300 for each scenario) Identification and analysis of the Ethical Dilemma using 5-step decision making model.
Task 2 - Case Study on Ethical Issues and Legal Aspects (1200 words - 300 for each Issue) Identification and analysis of the Ethical Dilemma using Ethical Theories.
Task 3 - Case Study on Cybersecurity & Cybercrime (1200 words - 300 for each Issue) Identification and analysis of the Cybersecurity and Cybercrime issue(s)
Recommendations & Conclusion (200 words)
Reference list - Adapted Harvard style
The word Count for this scenario is 4000-4500 words excluding references.