Do you think business benefits from ethics and professionalism? Justify your answer with at least 3 case studies. You can refer to a case study online or create your own case study
Businesses do benefit from ethics and professionalism. If a business keeps up good ethical behaviour they gain higher revenue from customer’s positive feedback, for example Toyota had ignored health and safety warnings for a line of cars they took out in 2009 and thus after many deaths and injuries lost customer support.
Philip Morris, a cigarette company was caught advertising to children and thus due to their unethical ways lost brand recognition and support from customers, they have been blamed for the high rate of young smokers as they try to keep the image of smokers being cool.
A Walmart employee was involved in a crash in 2000 that caused her brain damage and left her confined in a wheel chair, Walmart sued her family for medical bills which resulted them in losing motivation from employees and less people were being recruited as they did not want to work there.
- How do employers benefit from professional standards? What would happen if there are no professional standards in an organisation? Give at least 5 examples.
Employers would benefit as work quality would increase from employees. However if professional standards were lost, work quality would decrease. Staff moral would also decrease within a company. The companies image would deteriorate and thus public relations would fall. As well as this, people may be less likely to apply for jobs and staff turnover may also rise.
Do cyber security professionals face ethical dilemmas? Can you describe a scenario relating to this?
If a cyber security professional was asked to do work that breached laws or agreements for a higher sum of money this could be a dilemma, or if a cyber security professional came across illegal data they were not meant to see they have the choice of reporting it and getting themselves in trouble or leaving it and not acknowledging it.
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