tailieunhanh - Ebook Business ethics - Decision making for personal integrity and social responsibility (4th edition): Part 2

(BQ) Part 2 book "Business ethics" has contents: Ethical decision making - Technology and privacy in the workplace, ethics and marketing; business and environmental sustainability; ethical decision making - Corporate governance, accounting, and finance. | 7 Chapter Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace This “telephone” has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. Western Union internal memo, 1876 People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people—and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time. Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder and CEO of Facebook1 Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau The CIO “has got this massively more complex job with fewer dollars, less disposable resources to meet that challenge and deliver on expectations to the business. . . . Technology has become the core fabric of how a company operates.” Tom Hogan, senior vice president of software, Hewlett-Packard2 301 Opening Decision Point Being Smart about Smartphones One afternoon, your team is sitting in a client’s conference room, pitching a new database system. This pitch concerns an important sale, so while a colleague presents your team’s slides detailing the benefits of your system, you watch the client’s team carefully and take detailed notes on your smartphone. The client’s chief information officer (CIO) and chief financial officer (CFO) are both present, and you are paying special attention to the CIO, watching her reaction to each feature mentioned during the presentation. By the end of the meeting, you have typed up a brief report that will help your team prepare for a follow-up visit that is planned for the following week. When you get back to your own office, your boss—the head of sales—is waiting for you. “This deal is dead in the water,” he says. “I just got a call from our client’s CFO, and boy is she mad. She says you spent the entire meeting fiddling with your phone instead of paying attention. What on earth were you thinking?” While your boss is speaking, you feel .