Background of the real case study

Discuss about the Ethics and Social Issues for Global Computing Code.

In today’s era, ethical and social issues become part of our life. These are presented in everything in our day-to-day life. Social issues are affecting the society these issues are giving both minor and major impact to the society. According to Jeff Relkin, the ethical and social issues are now common ingredient of our life. Some people may have interest to engage in social issues because they want to inspire their families, children for taking interest on subject areas. The purposes of the issues are for involving the public to help in the formulation of research question. The issues promote right people to participate. These issues must relate to a computer, business, information system etc. (Parrott 2014).

There are various types of ethical and social issues in the company in Australia in which the security issue is one of them. A security issue means the system of the company maintained by the stakeholder and manager to give better protection to the employee of the company. These issues are such as inequality in income and resources, crisis of natural resources, scarcity of manufacturing of needy product in the society. According to the stakeholder’s viewpoints, these issues are affecting them in a large level. (Carroll and Buchholtz 2014).

Australian Software Company is among the best IT Company in Australia which is established at a top placed IT industry. The company is established in Sydney Australia. The organization effectively carries out transferring of stocks. It is irregular in its services, and a presence of moral practices is the reason behind its success. Aiming to achieve the ingenuity, trust and competitive advantage in the market, managers immensely focuses on the company`s ethical and legal laws. Various information are such as security numbers, identification of data and bank account details are exclusive in nature and should be made available to authorized individuals only. Further considering the Australian IT market it is incomparable to any other country markets.

According to Jeff Relkin,. From the previous days, most of the ethical and social issues are influenced with heritable testing and also made some research. If there is a good security system the company as well as employees will be safe by any certain issues. The project seeks to analyze the issues existing in the enterprise and also approach both ethically and legally towards a solution. The ethical issue also influenced from the viewpoint of stakeholder in the company. In Australia, this issue is becoming common now because most of the people are involving in this strategy. (www.techrepublic.com/articles/10-ethical-issues-confronting-manager/)

The ethical issues confronting IT manager

From the given website of 10 social and ethical issues, it has been seen that the Australia and its suburb facing the problems of these strategic issues. These issues are in many shapes which are dangerous for the society and the security system of a company is one of them.

According to Jeff Relkin, now the ethical and social issues are widely influencing the country. An Information Technology company helps to increase business performance, develop profits and acquire a sufficient dominance over the market with a large amount of collection of personal information from the people of the country. IT industry of Australia has become very grown up now. Despite of being a huge nation with low amount of population, there is an existing ethical code of conduct. Among several IT companies, Australian Software Company emerged as one of the best Information Technology Company in Australia (Hooperand 2013).

Problems: In the today’s business world, with a continuous increase in revenue generation and development in technology there has been a sufficient rise in issues of companies. In the middle of every other problem, privacy of exclusive information has been made to the headlines and has consequently affected the people. Unreliable from private emails to business financial statements, guarding of this data is not a simple task and can be only be done by experts.

In Australian Software Company protection of confidential material is strongly promoted. Management of the organization abides by a well organized set of rules and regulations laid down by the APP (Australian Principles of Privacy) Laws. The company uses personal information to check sustainability, speed communication and administer payments as and when required. Besides, to prevent fraud and provide idea of newly launched products the company tends to a modest way of functioning (Claps Svensson Aurum 2015).

Stakeholder plays a very important role in the ethical and social issues in Australia. These issues are related with the company’s strategy. Stakeholders of the Australian Software Company take a deep interest in looking into the functioning and decision-making of the company. Stakeholder of the company should be identifies an organized business environment lets the people to trust in the firm. Being an integral part of organization, a stakeholder is largely affected by any taken decision or when an objective is achieved. In order to run the company well within the industry, there must be a strong relationship between managers and stakeholders. The connection between a stakeholder, the company and consumer-stakeholders are typically based on an idea of trust, confidence, acceptance and unbiased dealing of goods and services. Paying of taxes, meeting customer demands, promoting employee safety are examples of ethical practices in the company. Employees and consumers are the two major internal and external stakeholders of the firm. Ethical issues are an important topic not only for the company but also for community and the environment. Concerning healthy relationship between the management and stakeholders, protecting of confidential information is a must. The organization being among the list of best in the world is confronted with a responsibility of societal welfare. Employees are highly prejudiced by decision of their mentors. Australian Software Company operating in a large scale environment and also involves in daily exchange ideas with many of its suburb companies. A reveal of such data will guide to damage the stakeholders (McShane and Glinow 2015).

Ethical issue related case in Australia

To solve the problems of the company Australian Software Company there must be some ethical exercise taken into consideration like employees and community of the company. Although it varies from person to person, the time consuming process proves to be beneficial than an implication of legal laws. Further a successful moral policy in the company gains the people`s trust because it portrays interests and motives of the company. A connection of similar religious beliefs among the people and the management is organically doing what the law requires. In general rival companies often tend to look for private information and use them for wrong purposes. A betrayal by authorized employees or hacking of websites adds onto the list of privacy issues. Further, a lawful approach by Computershare managers constrains the use of ethical laws till a level in the company. To solve the problem of ethical issue, it is necessary to gather more information as much as possible. The company has to understand the overall process of the issue to solve the problems. The company must have to identify the person who is involved in the issue of ethical it may be either an employee of the company or outside person. The company has to use some ethical removing tools such as latest technology in the company to reduce the problem of ethical and social issues (Buttigieg Savage 2015).

A stakeholder is an individual person in an organization who affects the business activity in the company. He might be having a direct or indirect interest with the business. Stakeholder of the company is divided into two categories such as internal and external parts. Internal part is the employees, managers and owners and external is the suppliers, society, government, shareholders, customers, creditors and investors. With a further diversification of these segments, each of the sectors is faced with an obligation to each other and the society as well. Stakeholders are in a continuous contact and maintain a healthy relationship with each other. Managers of the company are bound to answer to inquires by the workers and the society. Further, business owners consider the ethical obligation to treat every shareholder equitably. The stakeholder is responsible for any uncertain event in the company and also responsible to review the items of deliverable reports. A stakeholder might be having a work of specific project. The main objective of stakeholder of the Australian Software Company is to maximize profit and reduce expenses in the company. He set ups any training and support program if needed in the company.  It is the duty of the stakeholder to understand the rationale of the business and to make the details ingredients which are required for the company. He must place an ownership for giving true deliverables and also helps in making the financial plan in the company (Aurum 2015).

Ethical Issue from viewpoint of Stakeholder

In Australian Software Company, the stakeholder must identify  y and resolve any project related issues. If there is any negative issue in the company, it may suffer from losses and it will be less valuable in the market. For this, stakeholder of the company meets all the criteria which are needed in the company for better resources in business world. Decision making is one of the major responsibilities of the stakeholder. Decision making refers to a making of any financial or technical decision in the company. It is necessary for the growth and success of the Australian Software Company in Australia (Deng Kang and Low 2013).

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has various ethical codes in its organization either it’s professionally or none professionally to maintain the distinction and efficiency. It is keeping competence as high standards and also ethical conduct. With the help of this code of ethics the competence and professional prestige must increase and also using a specific knowledge and skill for human welfare development. The ethical codes are as follows (Burmeister 2013).

Acting with a professional activity and integrates at deal with client, employer and employee of the company.

Serving the ethical interest of the client, employee and employer and also for the students.

Working with honesty and diligence for the clients and employer.

Will be truthful in their skill, knowledge and service representations.

Enhancing the life of those qualify worker who are affected by the company.

Enhancing the own development as professional manner that of employee, colleagues and students.

Enhancing the computer profession integrity and gives respect to his each other members.

According to the ACS the standards of services are ideal and the entirely objective principles are not possible to set ethical conduct in the society (www.courses.cs.vt.edu/)

Conclusion

From the above study of ethical and social issue in Australia it has been considered that it is widely spreading now into the society and people of the society. These ethical issues are presented in every field of organization. There are 10 types of ethical issues consistently by which the security system of the Australian Software Company has chosen for discussions.

According to Jeff Relkin, the ethical and social issues are now common ingredient of our life. Some people may have interest to engage in social issues because they want to inspire their families, children for taking interest on subject areas. The purposes of the issues are for involving the public to help in the formulation of research question. People are facing various types of ethical and social issues in Australian Software Company in Australia. Ethical issue is also influencing the business world including social responsibility, protection of environment and individual’s activity. In Australia, this issue is becoming common now because most of the people are involving in this strategy. These issues can be solved by the people of the society in Australia. From the above discussion it has been concluded that an information Technology company helps to increase business performance, develop profits and acquire a sufficient dominance over the market with a large amount of collection of personal information from the people of the country.

According to Jeff Relkin, there is also a code of ethical conduct in Australian Software Company where the competence and professional prestige must increased and also the uses of specific knowledge and skill for human welfare development in Australia.

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