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This 3 page paper considers how companies can use technology to manage ethical standards and guidelines; and how this impacts corporate culture. It also discusses the use of technology to perform human resources functions and how that affects company culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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how companies can use technology to manage ethical standards and guidelines; and how this impacts corporate culture. It also discusses the use of technology to perform human resources functions and
how that affects company culture. Discussion The idea of using technology to manage ethics is an odd one, and requires some thought before any useful research can be done. Technology
in the company environment includes obvious things like computers and modern machinery; but we might want to speculate about what the culture of a company might be if it provides
all its executives with Blackberries. If everyone in the management sphere is expected to check email, answer IMs, or access information at all times, we can extrapolate from that to
assume that the company culture is a high stress environment in which people are expected to make themselves available to the company first and foremost. One of the ways
in which technology manages ethics is in aggregating information so that companies or governments have to remain honest (Ball, 2001). During a talk at DEF CON 9 in Las Vegas
in 2001, Patrick Ball said that when people or organizations behave in unethical ways, they try to keep that behavior secret (Ball, 2001). Balls example may be extreme, but his
point is valid. He asks his listeners to consider a situation in which the government "eliminates" someone; if a person were to accuse the government of the crime, he says,
the response would be predictable: they would claim he wasnt really killed, or he was "killed in a crossfire" or "the agents involved were rogues and weve sanctioned them" (Ball,
2001). If the incident is isolated, there is very little that anyone can do about it (Ball, 2001). "But if you can demonstrate that not just that guy was killed,
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