South African IT industry professionals' ethical awareness: an exploratory study

Abstract

This paper reports research findings based on an empirical survey of ethical awareness undertaken by the authors amongst 233 members of the IT and IT-related industries. The paper first describes the research context before describing the specific research instrument used to conduct the survey and discussing the results of the survey. Findings are that the majority surveyed have enjoyed no emphasis on ethics within their formal education; there is increased piracy for non-work purposes, though the degree of piracy at work is not negligible; and whilst privacy is generally recognized as being necessary to protect, results were received regarding the abuse of confidential information and the tendency to produce 'half-jobs' or work that is not of an employee's best quality. Individuals within organizations further reported that whilst they are aware of the ethical issues involving IT, their organizations are not.

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