Ethics & Codes Of Conduct

Doing the right is experienced based rules and expectations is ethical code and concerned with right and wrong morals.


Importance of ethics

• Ethics are concerned with questions of values about the behavior of the humans "good" or "bad" in any given situation.
•       Expected Behavior : Platform that would lead to the expected behavior from the member of society in any given situation
•        Decision Making: Ethics are the standards, values, morals, principles, used to base one's decisions or actions on a basis for ethical decision making in the conduct of professional work 

Code of Ethics

• Ethical judgments are no different in the area of computing from those in business practices, law practices, professional code of conducts because the computers raise problems of privacy, ownership, theft and power.


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Ethical Principals

•Ethical behavior should conform to both the law and the moral codes common to society.

•There are at least 2 ways to view ethical behavior:

–Utilitarian view (utilitarianism)

–Individualism view