How would you explain to a new employee?

Question

the need for your company's code of ethics which is based on the Association of Information Technology Professionals' code of ethics? Summerize the issues covered in this code of ethics.

Answer 1

What is the Association of Information Technology Professional's Code of Ethics?

Is ethics really such a complicated concept that we need a set of codes with a title that long?

What is your employee's ethical problem? One of the easiest ways to explain ethics is to relate them to the United States Judiciary System.

Many ethical issues are simply excuses that people make up, rationalizations, if you will, for the purpose of trying to make something wrong into something right.

For example:
It's wrong to murder an innocent man.
It's equally unethical to murder your competition's wife so he must go to a funeral and miss the big sales meeting EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE A MOTIVE!

In fact, Motive is one of the terms used by lawyers to find as evidence to put suspects in jail and on trial even if there isn't initially enough physical evidence to start a case.

You can see now how everything is inextricable intertwined, like a can of worms and a box of apples.


Tell him that, and he'll get the point. Beware though, many employees understand ethics EXTREMELY well, and their entire purpose is to screw you over. That means that revelaing such facts to him might result in his self-termination.

Personally, I would have targeted an unethical person for termination long before any of these questions ever entered my head, but I have a basic social flaw in that I hate thieves and killers.

Answer 2

1. Do your own homework.
2. Write your own papers.
3. Earn your own grades.
4. You really shouldn't cheat when writing papers on ethics.