Ewen Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Jane asks what ethical means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 She did a pukka job! Good girl. Nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkey Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Providing Jane a) Referenced all of her sources of information in her documentation b) Providing the information she has obtained from her employers competitors is NOT company confidential. Business ethics cannot be upheld - if confidentiality is breached. If both are TRUE, then it's perfectly ethical. Hope, you're not planning to plagurise other members ideas Paul - without putting a note in your reference appendix! Coz - that wouldn't be ethical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonball Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 Ah well she may well have been forced into personally compromising her personal values you see... so from whose viewpoint has she been ethical...? I cannot see me using the Harvard method of referencing and quoting the mkiv supra.net... I am always up front... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 To be honest you would have to do a wonderfully intricate description of all the surrounding events and factors, present all the potentially questionable activities she partook in and derive from that a core set of values based on the square root of pi divided by the diameter of my elbow... I can just see Jane now... Ethical WTF do you want from Me? I worked my ass off get the job done, and now you question my ethics!?!? *cue pout and bad mood for a whole month* Edit: Does Jane drive a Supra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkey Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Through a combination of utilising and gleaning colleague and competitors information she completes the task within 10 days I interpreted that - she was picking her colleagues brains for ideas. (Either being upfront about her intentions or not). The question for her being "ethical" - is easy in this case. If she's palming someone elses ideas as her own .. clearly that's not ethical - just glory seeking. And as for employers competitors - if she emails a friend who works for xyz Ltd - for ideas. And they give her corporate confidential information - clearly that isn't ethical either! And probably wouldn't do her credibility any good either, afterall - would her employer trust her if they found out she'd somehow got hold of a competitors confidential info ? If the information from her employers competitors - is in the public domain - then that's perfectly ethical as well ... PROVIDING it hasn't been patented. Software code or the design of Software can be copyrighted just the same as any other. Btw - that thing about the reference of mkivsupra.net ... that was a joke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now