Unit 6 Evaluating Ethics
LJ
IT590 Legal and Ethical Issues in IT
September 22, 2015
Professor

Unit 6 Evaluating Ethics
Introduction: Ethics has a vital role when it comes to companies and how they are run. Baase (2013) stated, “Many professional organizations have codes of professional conduct. They provide valuable guidance for new and young members” (p. 406). Baase (2013) stated, These codes provide general statement of ethical values and remind those that are in that particular profession that ethical behavior is essential to doing their job correctly and professionally.
For this assignment I will identify stakeholders, the risks, issues, problems, and consequences. I will also discuss the benefits, responsibilities of the decision makers, the rights of the stakeholders, and the impact of the actions of the options on stakeholders.
Identify Stakeholders: According to Businessdictionary.com (2015), “a stakeholder is a person, group, or organization that has interest or concern in an organization” (para. 1). Stakeholders can affect or be affected by changes within the organization such as objectives, issues, problems, and policies. For this organization the stakeholders are consists of employees, directors, owners, suppliers, the community, unions, and creditors.
Risks, Issues, Problems, and Consequences: The problem that lies here is that there is a loophole in which those who are not authorized to have personnel access do have it; they are able to see confidential data that they should not be allowed. The issue at hand is that those employees know that there is a loophole, but still took it upon themselves to access those personal records.
Employees having unauthorized access to these personnel records pose a risk because of the information that is available. Social security numbers, addresses, and other confidential information can be obtained