Best Practice and Best Behavior
Although each of these scenarios, which are based on real occurrences in Australian companies in the past three months, might appear to be an isolated example, they are in fact common everyday facts of life for many information system people.
In 1996 we did a road show for the Australian Computer Society on computer ethics and we discussed these and similar scenarios with more than 1,000 Australian, Hong Kong, U.S., and New Zealand business and system people. A significant majority of these people agreed that these types of situations are common events and they felt that such behavior is justified in most cases.
These situations are not just examples of poor management practices, but a clear indication of a deeper ...
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