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Getting Started with Tech Ethics
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Getting Started with Tech Ethics

by Gillian Arnold, Darren Dalcher, Catherine Flick, Neil Gordon, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Robert Tripp
September 2025
Beginner
142 pages
3h 4m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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3 THE PROFESSIONAL INDIVIDUAL’S ETHICS

Darren Dalcher

Given the ethical concepts defined in Chapter 2, we now explore professional ethics as a vital tool and framework to navigate moral complexity in tech and innovation. We consider how the competing value systems – personal, organisational, societal – are influenced by practical issues such as deadlines, politics and self-interest. We suggest practical tools and reflective questions to help individuals and teams reason through dilemmas, act responsibly and build ethical competence. The chapter also examines different types of responsibility – causal, legal, moral and role-based – and presents codes of conduct as scaffolding for professional integrity.

WHAT ARE PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND HOW ...

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