Assessment Brief

Task 4 is straightforward: you need to identify ethical issues, related to information technology, that will affect your Park Area (at least five, but more is better), identify the stakeholders involved, and come up with scenarios for how to deal with these issues. An example ethical issue – not directly related to IT Ethics – might look like this: “Attendance is down. Medallia survey data indicates visitors are bored with the selection of dinosaurs. The corporate office thinks creating a new genetic hybrid dinosaur in the lab would up the ‘wow’ factor and drive attendance numbers up.” Who would the stakeholders be, generally? How would you deal with this issue?Most important, how do you persuade the leadership of your Park Area that paying attention to ethics is worthwhile? If you have a manager who subscribes to the theory that the only ethical responsibility a corporation has is to make money for its shareholders how do you sway such a person into caring about bigger issues of right and wrong?This article from the Ethics Guy might be some good background reading: “3 Obstacles to Doing the Right Thing” http://theethicsguy.com/2013/07/03/3-obstacles-to-doing-the-right-thing/#more-2655What you will be turning in for Task 4, to the Task 4 Discussion Board and the Task 4 Files link:Brainstormed list of IT-related ethical issues your Park Area might have – you should have at least 5.For each IT-related ethical issue, a listing of the general stakeholders involved.A plan for how you will resolve each IT-related ethical issue.A memo (at least 250 words) to the head of your Park Area about why the IT-related ethical issues you’ve identified are essential to address – it’s great if you can appeal to a higher sense of purpose, but feel free to address more real-world concerns such as reputation loss, stock price loss, and revenue loss in general.