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Professional Ethics: by Marriam Butt

The document discusses various topics related to professional ethics including definitions of ethics and norms, understanding society's perspectives, institutions of society, types of ethics, professional ethics, importance of professional ethics, information technology ethics, and computer ethics.

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Professional Ethics: by Marriam Butt

The document discusses various topics related to professional ethics including definitions of ethics and norms, understanding society's perspectives, institutions of society, types of ethics, professional ethics, importance of professional ethics, information technology ethics, and computer ethics.

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Professional ethics

Lecture 1
By Marriam Butt
Ethics

► Greek word “ethos” means “habit” or a “character”.


► Ethics are the moral principles governed or practiced by a person or group of
people.
► Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society.
► Eg, code of conduct set by a business.
► Computer ethics, including intellectual property rights (such as copyrighted
electronic content) privacy concerns and how computers affect society.
Values vs norms

► Norms:
informal understanding among behaviors of a community

► Values:
Principles, important rules and regulations.
Understanding society and its
perspectives
► Structural functionalism
► Conflict perspective
1. Race conflict approach
2. Gender conflict approach
► Symbolic interactionist approach
Institutions of a society

►  family
► government
► economy
►  education
► religion
► health
► technology
Types of ethics

► Normative ethics
► Meta ethics
► Applied ethics
► Utilitarianism
► Deontology
► Virtue ethics
► Ethics of care
► Egoism
► Divine command theory
► Natural law
► Social contract theory
► Rawls theory of justice
► Moral relativism
Professional ethics
“These are the personal and the corporate standards of behaviors expected by the professionals.”
► These include:
✔ Honesty
✔ Integrity
✔ Transparency
✔ Accountability
✔ Confidentiality
✔ Objectivity
✔ Respect
✔ Obedience to the law
Importance of professional ethics

► They are established in order to protect public and the reputation of the
professionals.

► Ethics are fundamental requirement of any profession. It is integral to the


success of the business as well.
Information technology ethics

► It relates ethical issues arising out of the use and development of electronic
technologies.

► These ethics ensure that computer technology isn’t used in wrong ways which
can harm people, environment and society.
Computer ethics

► Concept originated in 1950 by “Nobert Wiener”, an MTT professor and an


inventor of an information feedback system called “cybernetics”.

► His book “The human use of human beings”.

► Father of computer ethics.


Computer ethics

► Computer ethics regulate the use of computers because as technology


advances, computers continue to have a greater impact on the society.
► It protects the personal and commercial information such as login and
password information; credit cards and account information and
governmental databases.
► Internal mails and ads (spam).
The end

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