IFSM 304 Current Event Assignment

Paper CE: Analysis of a Current Events article.

The purpose of this assignment is to 
analyze a current events article (i.e., only one) that you may choose from any online current periodical, trade magazine, or other electronic publication about a global digital ethical issue. While this assignment will increase your knowledge in that subject area from a corporation viewpoint and enable you to analyze digital ethical issues of a current GLOBAL situation or event, it will also help enhance your research and writing skills, as well as your critical-thinking abilities.

The following elements must be addressed:

·
Summarize
 the 
whole
 article by 
all of its key or salient points
. It may help if you use bullets to note the salient points of the article, as you read through it. A summary is desired, not just the “thrust’ of the article.

·
Analyze
 the multi-national and global aspects of the article – 
what is the impact or what is the importance of the information in the article?

·
Determine three critically important questions

 not otherwise included in the article that
 you would like to address to the author regarding the article – 
you are not expected to answer the questions!

Prepare a double-spaced paper and submit it to the LEO

9. Valuing Money Above Human Rights

The root of all the ethical crises in technology is when money is valued above all else. Until there is a cost, tech companies will not value you as a person if money is to be made from treating you as something less than a person. Increasingly, having a reputation for valuing people, their privacy and human rights will make an organization stand out and even make more money in the long term. –
 Kendall Miller
,
 Fairwinds Ops, Inc.

The central challenge ethics owners in tech companies are grappling with is negotiating between external pressures to respond to ethical crises at the same time that they must be responsive to the internal processes of their companies and the industry. On the one hand, external criticisms push them toward challenging core business practices and priorities. On the other hand, there are pressures to establish or restore predictable processes and outcomes that serve the bottom line. This ratchets up the pressure to fit in and ratchets down the capacity to object to ethically questionable products, which makes it all the more difficult to distinguish between success and failure — moral victories can look like punishment while ethically questionable products earn big bonuses. The tensions that arise from this must be worked through, with one eye on process, but also with the other eye squarely focused on outcomes for the broader society.

For example, the ten principles of the UN Global Compact serve as guidelines for international firms doing business in LDCs (least developed countries), and abroad, businesses should (1) support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights, (2) ensure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses, (3) uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining, (4) eliminate of all forms of forced and compulsory labor, (5) abolish child labor, (6) eliminate the discrimination of employment and occupation, (7) support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges, (8) promote greater environmental responsibility through initiatives, (9) encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies, and (10) work against corruption, including extortion and bribery.

United nations Global Compact, “The Ten principles of the united Nations Global Compact”, https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/mission/principles.

Works Cited

1. Panel®, E. (2020, July 9). 15 Ethical Crises In Technology That Have Industry Leaders Concerned. Forbes; Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/07/09/15-ethical-crises-in-technology-that-have-industry-leaders-concerned/?sh=60672fd37be9

2. Moss, E., & Metcalf, J. (2019, November 14). The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies. Harvard Business Review; https://www.facebook.com/HBR. https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-ethical-dilemma-at-the-heart-of-big-tech-companies

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