This module is designed to help you become aware of ethical issues that arise on a day-to-day basis in the context of practical and professional activities such as business, science, engineering, and computing. You will look at brief scenarios and then discuss how realistic they are, whether they portray ethical or unethical activities, and whether there is agreement or discord within your practical or professional community on these issues. This module was developed during a retreat funded by the National Science Foundation and held in Puerto Rico (NSF SBR-9810253). Its appearance in Connexions is part of the NSF-funded EAC (ethics across the curriculum) Toolkit, NSF SES 0551779.
Step 1: individually evaluate the scenarios below using the following three questions:
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
A. email scenario
An employee uses his/her computer at work to send e-mails to friends and relatives.
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
B. betting pool
While reviewing e-mail messages a manager discoves someone using the company's e-mail system to operate a weekly betting pool.
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
C. political material
An employee sends political campaign material to individuals on her employer's/company's e-mail mailing list.
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
D. computer monitoring
A company occasionally uses software to monitor the productivity of its staff. It only uses the software to minitor employees throught to be wasting time.
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
E. copying software
An employee makes a copy of software fromwork and installs it on his/her home computer. No one uses the computer while he/she is at work, and the home computer is used only to finish projects from work
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
F. notebooks to teachers
In order to improve public education, the government provides notebook computers to a large number of public school teachers.
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
G. doing homework
An employee uses his or her computer at work to complete a homework assignment for school.
Do you think this situation is common/realistic? Yes or No
Do you think this situation or activity is Ethical or Unethical?
In general would others agree with your answer to Q #2? Yes or No
Reference
Some scenarios are based on the textbook: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Misty E. Vermaat,
Discovering Computers 2005: A Gateway to Information , Web Enhanced-Complete, Shelly Cashman Series, Course Technology: Boston, MA. p.589.
Step two: informally share or discuss your answers with the class
Use the space below to make notes
Step three: ethical decision making guidelines--four informal tests:
REVERSIBILITY : Would I think this a good choice if I were among those affected by it?
PUBLICITY : Would I want this action published in the newspaper?
HARM : Does this action do less harm than any available alternative?
FEASIBILITY : Can this solution be implemented given resource, interest, and technical constraints?
Step four: divide into groups, re-evaluate the remaining scenarios using the above tests, then share or discuss your group's answers with the class.
Scenario
Reversibility
Publicity
Harm
Feasibility
A. (email)
B. (Betting Pool)
C (Political Material)
D (Monitoring)
E (Copying Software)
F (Notebooks for Teachers)
G (Homework)
Practical and professional ethics pre-test
This media file contains the Pre-Test in MS Word format. It has been designed for Introduction to Computers classes and offers scenarios devoted to ethical issues that arise in computing.
The goal of this exercise is to help you become aware of the ethical issues that arise in computing on a day to day basis.
You now know how to recognize ethical problems in the real world
You are already in the habit of using ethical concepts and principles in your everyday thinking.
You have learned a series of ethics tests that will help you formulate and refine ethical arguments.
Continue thinking about how ethical issues arise in the real world. Included with this module are some links designed to help you continue to reflect about ethics in computing.
Questions & Answers
differentiate between demand and supply
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In economics, a perfect market refers to a theoretical construct where all participants have perfect information, goods are homogenous, there are no barriers to entry or exit, and prices are determined solely by supply and demand. It's an idealized model used for analysis,
When MP₁ becomes negative, TP start to decline.
Extuples Suppose that the short-run production function of certain cut-flower firm is given by: Q=4KL-0.6K2 - 0.112 •
Where is quantity of cut flower produced, I is labour input and K is fixed capital input (K-5). Determine the average product of lab
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Extuples Suppose that the short-run production function of certain cut-flower firm is given by: Q=4KL-0.6K2 - 0.112 •
Where is quantity of cut flower produced, I is labour input and K is fixed capital input (K-5). Determine the average product of labour (APL) and marginal product of labour (MPL)
Quantity demanded refers to the specific amount of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a give price and within a specific time period. Demand, on the other hand, is a broader concept that encompasses the entire relationship between price and quantity demanded
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Economic growth as an increase in the production and consumption of goods and services within an economy.but
Economic development as a broader concept that encompasses not only economic growth but also social & human well being.
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production function means
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What do you think is more important to focus on when considering inequality ?
sir...I just want to ask one question... Define the term contract curve? if you are free please help me to find this answer 🙏
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it is a curve that we get after connecting the pareto optimal combinations of two consumers after their mutually beneficial trade offs
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In economics, the contract curve refers to the set of points in an Edgeworth box diagram where both parties involved in a trade cannot be made better off without making one of them worse off. It represents the Pareto efficient allocations of goods between two individuals or entities, where neither p
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In economics, the contract curve refers to the set of points in an Edgeworth box diagram where both parties involved in a trade cannot be made better off without making one of them worse off. It represents the Pareto efficient allocations of goods between two individuals or entities,
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Suppose a consumer consuming two commodities X and Y has
The following utility function u=X0.4 Y0.6. If the price of the X and Y are 2 and 3 respectively and income Constraint is birr 50.
A,Calculate quantities of x and y which maximize utility.
B,Calculate value of Lagrange multiplier.
C,Calculate quantities of X and Y consumed with a given price.
D,alculate optimum level of output .
the market for lemon has 10 potential consumers, each having an individual demand curve p=101-10Qi, where p is price in dollar's per cup and Qi is the number of cups demanded per week by the i th consumer.Find the market demand curve using algebra. Draw an individual demand curve and the market dema
suppose the production function is given by ( L, K)=L¼K¾.assuming capital is fixed find APL and MPL. consider the following short run production function:Q=6L²-0.4L³ a) find the value of L that maximizes output b)find the value of L that maximizes marginal product
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OpenStax, Ethics across the curriculum modules for eac toolkit workshops. OpenStax CNX. May 07, 2007 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10414/1.2
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