Information Technology and Business Ethics: Case Studies

Abstract

In a similar way, we often seek to blame our mistakes on the computer. There is an ethical dimension to IT disasters, as attempts are made to shift responsibility from men to machines. The excuse of ignorance of IT wears thin when offered by those with senior management positions.

This is excellent fopper of the world,that,when we are sick in fortune,often the surfeit of our own behaviour,we make guilty of our own disasters the sun,the moon,and the stars;as if we were villains by necessity,fools by heavenly compulsion,knaves,thieves and treachers by spherical predominance,drunkards,liars and adulters by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a devine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! Shakespeare,King Lear,Act1, Scene 2:Edmund