Chapter 8

The Future of IT Ethics

“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”

Mark Twain

8.1 Building the Ethical Future

In our journey exploring ethics in IT outsourcing, we started with a look at our history, then academic research that specified three levels of ethical decision making: the macro (society), molar (corporate) and micro (personal). In particular, we looked in detail at the kind of fundamental change an empowered ethics PMO and empowered chief ethics officer (CETO) can effect.

To begin, let’s ground the discussion in the present by reviewing the research in earlier chapters that identifies the following current trends. An extremely dramatic, precipitous drop in available U.S. labor is just around the corner but not yet felt ...

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