300578 Professional Development

Task:

1. Being able to make ethical decisions is an important skill a professional must possess. Explain what Ethical Decision Making is, then give an example of an ethical decision and the steps you would take to make it.

2. A computer technician working at a repair centre finds child pornography on a computer he is repairing. He knows possession of child pornography is illegal, and that he should contact authorities, however he also knows that he should not have been looking at the contents of the client’s hard drive for personal interest. He thinks about how his snooping could cost him his job if his employer finds out. Because of this, he doesn’t report the discovery to the police, instead, he deletes all the files he found containing child pornography and continues to repair the computer.

Questions relating to scenario are on the next page:

In relation to this scenario answer these questions (see next page):

a) Do you agree with the computer technician’s actions?

b) What did he do right?

c) What did he do wrong?

d) If you were in the same position, what would you do?

3. Two of the key concepts of ethics is obligation and duty. Explain each one with an example, and how they are related to each other