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Ethics in Business and Information Use

Executives who maintain a good corporate image through equitable dealings with customers and employees, and earn profits legally, are considered ethical. However, organizations focused on profits cannot always display moral traits like honesty and sympathy, and good morals do not necessarily correlate with business success. Information and computing themselves are amoral, as increased access enables both positive uses like empowerment and efficiency, as well as negative uses like privacy violations, fraud, and exposure to inappropriate content.

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Ethics in Business and Information Use

Executives who maintain a good corporate image through equitable dealings with customers and employees, and earn profits legally, are considered ethical. However, organizations focused on profits cannot always display moral traits like honesty and sympathy, and good morals do not necessarily correlate with business success. Information and computing themselves are amoral, as increased access enables both positive uses like empowerment and efficiency, as well as negative uses like privacy violations, fraud, and exposure to inappropriate content.

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• 2.2.

4: Good Business Means Good Ethics


Executives and organizations that maintain a good corporate image, practice equitable dealings with
customs and employees and earn profits by legitimate, legal means are de facto ethical
However,
Organizations pursuing profit making cannot be expected to display moral characteristics like
honesty, considerations and sympathy and usually, there is no correlation between
‘goodness’ and ‘material success’
• 2.2.5 Information is Neutral and Amoral
Information and computing are considered amoral as forms of control, power and
manipulation and open access to information results in questionable use of data bases,
violation of privacy, targeting of consumers for fraudulent advertising, pirating of intellectual
property, exposure of children to pornography and the like.
But information and computing have productive and positive dimensions, too: Exposure to
information can help empowerment and enlightenment and increased efficiency

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