ACS Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

The ACS code of professional is refers to the Australian computer society. The ACS code of ethics is the part of the ACS constitution. As the ACS member you must have to uphold and advance the dignity, honor, and effectiveness of being a professional. It entails, in the addition of being the good citizen and acting in the law. The ACS provides the six ethical values with the requirements which contribute to observe the values. Those are explaining below:

The primacy of the public interest: The public interest takes the precedence over the personal in the context of the code “The primacy of the public interest.”In this code all the conflict must be resolved in the interest of public favor. The public interest taken to include the matters of the health and safety and the environment of public.

The enhancement of quality of life: The ICT development has had the considerable impact on our society and way of whilst this impact has been beneficial to the very great extent, such as ICT has also had some negative effects for all the technologies and will continue to doing so. These adverse effect can be minimize and recognize with the help of the ethical approach of your work for this. You must promote the equal access to the benefits of the ICT by all the society members.

Honesty: In the specific trust of your stakeholders or the profession you do not have to break the public trust. All of your professional actions and decisions must be underlie under the observance of utmost integrity and honesty. Between your professional courses the circumstance will be undoubtedly arises, where it may be appear to be beneficial for you to be deceptive in some way. This type of the behavior is not acceptable for the professional conduct.

Competence: You only accept only that work in which you believe you are competent to perform and do not hesitate to obtain the additional expertise appropriately qualified the individuals where advisable. You have to aware of your own limitation that you have competence you do not possess. It’s not necessary to you know all the facets of the ICT but when needed you must be able to recognize the additional information and expertise.

Professional development: Keep yourself updated with new technologies which are relevant or useful in your work and also you have to encourage your colleagues and staff members to do the same thing.

Professionalism: The ICT industry is relatively characterized and new by the rapid changes. The ACS is endeavoring to progress the public confidence in the ICT industries.  The society member must be maintaining the professional standards which improve the image of industry especially at the workplace. The ACS can also help all the people to resolve or recover the ethical dilemmas, it provides the support for the taking the appropriate action including the whistle.

Requirement letter: The requirement for this case study according to the ACS is given below:

Public interest: Endeavour to protect the security, integrity, utility, and continuity of the ICT.

Identify the potentially impacted through your own work and explicitly consider their interest.

Take into the consideration of the fact that’s your profession traverse many other professions and has the implication of the other social system.

Honesty: Do not knowingly mislead the client according to the suitability of your services and product.

Competence: Happily accept the responsibility your own work.

Professionalism: Refrain from the action into your professional role that may tarnish the image of the profession.

Ethical analysis advice on how they should proceed with reasons.

According to the ACS ethics rule the company must have to keep their honesty, professionalism, competence, and public interest in their work. According to the Wayne the works takes one month to complete but the client demand within 3 working days. The Deborah is the project manager and as we know the company can’t afford the any losses in the project and don’t want to leave the project so the Deborah have to request to the client and try to understand them the minimum project timeline required to complete this project, so that they may be convince with the discussion and can provide more time to complete and deliver the project. Or the Wayne have to complete the main part of the system first and deliver to client so that the client can continue their work temporary and request to the client for the updates which will be deliver after few days when the project will be completely done.

This way is better to deliver the defected project with errors and bugs without completely satisfying the project is completely done after the testing and it also makes a good image for the company in the clients.

The ACS rules also don’t allow the company or organization to deliver the wrong product or services to the client and mislead the client according to their own product and services so the Deborah and Wayne also have to try these suggestions to resolve this ethical dilemma.