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Discussion Questions
1. What do you think are the most important factors that helped you define your own personal code of ethics? 2. It is common and acceptable practice for managers to hold people accountable to meet “stretch” goals, quotas, and budgets. How can this be done in way that does not encourage unethical behavior on the part of employees? 3. How do you distinguish between a gift and an bribe? Provide an example of a “gift” that falls in the gray area between a gift and a bribe. 4. Discuss the following topic: Laws do not provide a complete guide to ethical behavior. An activity can be legal but not ethical. 5. Identify and briefly discuss four reasons why computer incidents have become more prevalent. 6. Do you believe that spam is actually harmful? Why or why not? 7. Why employers do monitors workers? Do you think they should be able to do so? Why or why not? 8. Do you think that law enforcement agencies should be able to use advanced surveillance technology, such as surveillance camera combined with facial recognition software? Why or why not? 9. Do you think further efforts to limit the dissemination of pornography on the internet are appropriate? Why or why not? 10. Discuss the ways in which a software manufacturer can protect the unauthorized use of its software. Which do you think is the best way for a software manufacturer to protect new software? Why? 11. Discuss the conditions under which a company’s customer list can be considered a trade secret. 12. Identify the three criteria you consider to be most important in a quality system. Briefly discuss your rationale for selecting these criteria. 13. Explain why the cost to identify and remove a defect in the early stages of software development might be 100 times less than the cost of removing a defects in software that has been distributed to hundreds of customers. 14. Why is the human interface one of the most important but difficult areas of safety
1. What do you think are the most important factors that helped you define your own personal code of ethics? 2. It is common and acceptable practice for managers to hold people accountable to meet “stretch” goals, quotas, and budgets. How can this be done in way that does not encourage unethical behavior on the part of employees? 3. How do you distinguish between a gift and an bribe? Provide an example of a “gift” that falls in the gray area between a gift and a bribe. 4. Discuss the following topic: Laws do not provide a complete guide to ethical behavior. An activity can be legal but not ethical. 5. Identify and briefly discuss four reasons why computer incidents have become more prevalent. 6. Do you believe that spam is actually harmful? Why or why not? 7. Why employers do monitors workers? Do you think they should be able to do so? Why or why not? 8. Do you think that law enforcement agencies should be able to use advanced surveillance technology, such as surveillance camera combined with facial recognition software? Why or why not? 9. Do you think further efforts to limit the dissemination of pornography on the internet are appropriate? Why or why not? 10. Discuss the ways in which a software manufacturer can protect the unauthorized use of its software. Which do you think is the best way for a software manufacturer to protect new software? Why? 11. Discuss the conditions under which a company’s customer list can be considered a trade secret. 12. Identify the three criteria you consider to be most important in a quality system. Briefly discuss your rationale for selecting these criteria. 13. Explain why the cost to identify and remove a defect in the early stages of software development might be 100 times less than the cost of removing a defects in software that has been distributed to hundreds of customers. 14. Why is the human interface one of the most important but difficult areas of safety