Ethical attitudes of entry-level MIS personnel
Information and Management
Another view of computer science ethics: patterns of responses among computer scientists
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on computer ethics
The ethical attitudes of information systems professionals: outcomes of an initial survey
Telematics and Informatics
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This paper examines student perceptions of ethical issues relating to the development and use of information systems. Students in a, freshman level, introductory IS course and in a junior level MIS course were given a set of scenarios involving issues of software piracy, system penetration, and use of malware. Students were asked to evaluate the degree of ethical breach involved in each scenario. The survey was designed to measure the extent to which students respond differently to the various types of IS ethical scenarios and to provide a basis for examining how demographic factors (age, sex, and class level) affect overall judgments of IS ethical breaches. Survey results suggest that students draw substantial distinctions in their ethical judgments of the scenarios based upon the type of action and the motivation of the actor. In addition, regression analysis of average response across all scenarios suggests that female gender, increased age and higher class standing (juniors versus freshmen) all contribute to judgments of greater ethical breach. The impact, of class standing, on these ethical judgments is of particular interest, since it measures the extent to which a student's University experience impacts her/his ethical perspectives.