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Professional Practices: Week 6

This document outlines an ethics lecture, including discussions of ethical dilemmas, organizational structure, codes of ethics, and resolving dilemmas. It presents 4 case studies involving common ethical dilemmas in professional practice, such as using hardware for multiple jobs, overlooking certification requirements, maintaining client relationships, and committing resources. The document stresses taking an ethical approach by encouraging evaluation of work, transferring knowledge, and leaving successful business changes embedded.

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Professional Practices: Week 6

This document outlines an ethics lecture, including discussions of ethical dilemmas, organizational structure, codes of ethics, and resolving dilemmas. It presents 4 case studies involving common ethical dilemmas in professional practice, such as using hardware for multiple jobs, overlooking certification requirements, maintaining client relationships, and committing resources. The document stresses taking an ethical approach by encouraging evaluation of work, transferring knowledge, and leaving successful business changes embedded.

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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

WEEK 6

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCES


BAHRIA UNIVERSITY LAHORE CAMPUS

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TODAY’S OUTLINE

 Ethical Dilemmas
 Organizational Structure

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SUMMARY OF CODE OF ETHICS GOALS

 The Public Interest


 Duty to Employers and Clients
 Duty to the Profession
 Professional Competence and Integrity

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THE BCS CODE OF PRACTICE (SCOPE)

 The Code of Practice is concerned with professional responsibility. All members have responsibilities: to clients,
to users, to the State and society at large
 In the event of apparent clash in responsibilities, obligations or prescribed practice the Society's Secretary-General
should be consulted at the earliest opportunity.
 BCS membership covers all occupations relevant to the use of computers and it is not possible to define the Code
in terms directly relevant to each individual member.

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ETHICAL DILEMMAS

 A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or


more alternatives
 Please respond to the following situations according to what you would
ACTUALLY do, NOT what you think you SHOULD do. This requires
some tough but honest internal dialogue!

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RESOLVING DILEMMAS

 Resolving the dilemmas


 practical guidelines
 Working through case studies, understanding points of conflict, and
clarifying priorities
 Determining your ethical position

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DILEMMA 1 (CASE NO-6)

You have quoted time and hardware pricing for two similar
assignments both requiring installation of ICT. To your delight
both clients order the work but a dilemma has been created. The
hardware to test state of the art from one project on one job can
also be used on the other job. Potentially this reduces your costs
and allows you to reduce pricing on one or both jobs.
What would you do?
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DILEMMA 2 (CASE7)

You and a colleague have worked hard with much time


negotiating a bid which you have just won. You are reviewing
your colleague’s bid offer and notice that the client pre-
qualification question requiring a specific CPD certification was
not answered. The client and your colleague appear to have
overlooked this. You do not have the required certification.
What would you do?
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DILEMMA 3 (CASE 8)

You have developed a successful client relationship for some


years as an IT consultant. Your main client contact has indicated
to you confidentially s(he) is considering a move to a consulting
supplier who competes with yourself. You were planning to
recruit a person with the same skills and experience.
What would you do?

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DILEMMA 4 (CASE 9)
You are in the middle of delivering a successful project with
your employed team. The client wishes to extend the work and
has emailed you asking you confirm within 48 hours that you
have the capacity to deliver more as time is of the essence for a
decision. Your resources are currently fully committed but you
are confident you can sub-contract to an associate to deliver.
However the subcontractors are on holiday and cannot be
contacted within 48 hours.
What would you do? 10
PROFITING FROM GOOD PRACTICE

 Take an ethical approach at all times by:


 Encouraging Clients to evaluate and measure the benefits of any work
conducted by Consultants;
 Protect personal methods but transfer Knowledge; and
 Leave the business change successfully embedded

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SUMMARY

 Today we have learnt


 Case studies

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REFERENCES

 These lecture notes were taken from following source:


 Professional Issues in Software Engineering M.F. Bott et al. Latest edition
 Computer Ethics, Deborah G. Johnson, Pearson Education (2009) 4th edition

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