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2016

Ethics

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Information Technology Ethics: A Research Framework, Richard V. Mccarthy, Leila Halawi, Jay E. Aronson Oct 2016

Information Technology Ethics: A Research Framework, Richard V. Mccarthy, Leila Halawi, Jay E. Aronson

Leila A. Halawi

Information technology has become so pervasive that opportunities for abuses abound. IT Ethics has taken on increasing importance as the size and complexity of IT issues continues to grow. This paper outlines a research framework to analyze: Do significant ethical differences exist amongst undergraduate and graduate MIS students?

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Ethical Attitudes Of Business Information Systems Students: An Empirical Investigation, Leila Halawi, Silva Karkoulian Oct 2016

Ethical Attitudes Of Business Information Systems Students: An Empirical Investigation, Leila Halawi, Silva Karkoulian

Leila A. Halawi

This paper discusses attitudes toward ethical issues in information systems. Approximately 150 subjects were drawn from two populations: full-time undergraduate business information systems students and full-time master’s students. The subjects read a subset of six ethical scenarios. Hypotheses were tested for significant differences between the undergraduate students’ beliefs and those of graduate students, and female and male students who responded to the same scenarios.

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Evaluation Of Ethical Issues In The Knowledge Age: An Exploratory Study, Leila Halawi, Richard V. Mccarthy Oct 2016

Evaluation Of Ethical Issues In The Knowledge Age: An Exploratory Study, Leila Halawi, Richard V. Mccarthy

Leila A. Halawi

Unethical information technology (IT) conduct is estimated to cost billions of dollars in deficits for enterprises. Included in this unethical behavior are issues associated with the knowledge age. Many IT ethics concerns do not have guidelines that are well recognized or broadly accepted. This study will explore the ethical perception of a diverse group of knowledge workers. It will also examine the effects of deterrents, individual factors and external variables to determine if there are noted differences in ethical perceptions that can be explained by these variables.

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Myth: Hard Work And Credentials Determine Employment Opportunities Feb 2016

Myth: Hard Work And Credentials Determine Employment Opportunities

Alev Dudek

"The way one's career develops has little to do with what one went to school for, envisioned, or carefully planned. Careers generally result from coincidence. Regardless of these facts, job seekers are told to endure extensive career testing and planning, or they are asked to create artificial networks that seldom lead to more than frustration. They are given tests that allegedly determine which careers a particular individual would excel in and be a good fit for based on his or her skills and interests, as if the individual would not excel in other careers as much, or as if being …

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Who Let The Lawyers Out?: Reconstructing The Role Of The Chief Legal Officer And The Corporate Client In A Globalizing World, Constance Bagley Dec 2015

Who Let The Lawyers Out?: Reconstructing The Role Of The Chief Legal Officer And The Corporate Client In A Globalizing World, Constance Bagley

Constance E. Bagley

In the wake of the collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan in  1989 and again after the implosion of Enron and WorldCom in 2001, Judge Stanley Sporkin famously asked, “Where were the lawyers?” Section 307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 imposed new duties on in-house counsel to report up violations of law.  Yet, we still had the LIBOR and foreign-exchange rigging scandals, which had, by 2015, led to multi-billion dollar settlements and fired bank CEOs in England and Germany; rampant insider trading by hedge funds and corporate titans; the subprime mortgage crisis; the option backdating scandals; and massive recalls …

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Giving Voice To Values: A New Approach In Accounting Ethics Education, Steven Mintz Dec 2015

Giving Voice To Values: A New Approach In Accounting Ethics Education, Steven Mintz

Steven Mintz

“Giving Voice to Values” is a pedagogical method that shifts the focus away from traditional philosophical reasoning to an approach to ethics education that emphasizes developing the capacity to express one’s opinions in a way that positively influences others. GVV focuses not on the normative questions of 'what is the right thing to do?’ but on the behavioral question 'how do we get the right thing done?'The motivation for using GVV is heeding calls to focus on improving actual ethical behavior rather than just ethical decision-making. The purpose of this paper is to explain the components of an Integrated Decision-Making …

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