Provides a basis for identifying and analyzing the ethical and political issues raised by the various possibilities of information technology (IT). Ten IT capabilities identified (access, capture, speed, permanence / storage. Duplication, tracking, monitoring, data recombination, work redesign, and supplier of power) and mapped against five managerial issues, which they can call (privacy, ownership, control, accuracy, and security). These five questions, which are then displayed in the four policy areas that might address them (based policy, intellectual property rights, worker rights, and competitiveness). Key questions arise and example of its impact on decision making are presented. Finally, the four models of ethical analysis suggested as a possible tool to approximate these management decisions: stakeholder analysis, utilitarian purposes, based on an analysis based on the analysis of rights and obligations on the basis of the analysis. Useful in the preface to the management of IT, and in the course of business ethics. "Hide
by John J. Sviokla, Maria Gentile 15 pages. Publication Date: February 15, 1990. Prod. #: 190130-PDF-ENG
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