COMP636 Ethics Report 2024 S1

COMP636 Ethics Report- Semester 1, 2024
Due: 5pm, Wednesday 24 April 2024

Submission: PDF document submitted via Learn
Worth: 10% of overall mark for COMP636
Scenario
Zhe is the team leader for the development team at NZBioActive, a company that sells
biological fertilizers to the agriculture industry.
NZBioActive currently conduct their sales via sales representatives who visit farmers and take
orders (either in person, via email, or by telephone call). The sales representative then enters
the order into the internal order system.
The Marketing Manager (James) would like to add the ability for famers to be able to order
directly via a web portal. He says it shouldn’t be that hard and you should just host the current
ordering system in the cloud and build a web interface for farmers to place an order through.
The current ordering system is built using old technology that is kept secure by being hosted on
a company server with access restricted to company devices running a custom software
application. You have advised James that such a project would require a redevelopment of the
system to allow secure web access, an initial version would take 6 to 8 months and a fully
working version would be 12-18 months, subject to final requirements after engagement with
customers to properly understand user requirements.
James says that this is unacceptable and that he needs online ordering in three months as he
had promised the CEO (who has repeated the promise to the board) that he will open this new
sales channel to cut costs by then. James says you are overcomplicating the situation and that
the existing system is fine to be hosted in the cloud without an extensive re-write.
Zhe is unsure what she should do in this situation and has asked you to prepare an ethical
report that outlines potential solutions, makes a recommendation and discusses the
ethical issues that relate to her situation.
Requirements
For the ethical scenario described above write a report that considers the scenario and your
course of action.
Your report should:
• Identify three stakeholders who are impacted by the situation describing who they are
and why and how they are impacted.
• Propose three distinct solutions or approaches to the situation, which represent
different ethical responses.
o For each solution give a best- and worst-case outcome, consider the impact on
each stakeholder you have previously identified.
• Identify which of the three solutions you would choose.
• Discuss why you would make that choice in terms of the ITPNZ ethical tenets. (Note:
This discussion is worth half of the marks for this assessment.)
In your discussion of the solution you have selected, consider each of the ITPNZ ethical tenets
that apply to the situation AND answer these questions:
1. How does your solution affect each of the stakeholders - positively and negatively?
2. In what ways does it balance the needs of all stakeholders?
3. Does this solution result in the greatest good for the greatest number of people?
4. How does it affect people who don't know about it or are unable to influence the
situation?
5. In what ways is your chosen solution a natural compromise between conservative and
excessive?
To conclude your discussion, include a short comment stating which tenets do not apply and
why.
Marking
Area % of Marks allocated
Appropriate identification of stakeholders, including describing

10%
what is at stake for each.
Three solutions proposed, including best- and worst-case outcome.

Each solution is independent of the others proposed. Solutions 30%
cover a range of options, including extremes.
Discussion of solution selected, including reference to ethical

50%
principles and coverage of discussion points.
Report presentation including Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. 10%
Notes for Discussion marking

A high scoring discussion will include discussion of the ITP Code of Ethics tenets in relation to
the selected solution and a discussion of the five questions posed, including your rationale for
the answer to each.

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COMP636 Ethics Report- Semester 1, 2024

Due: 5pm, Wednesday 24 April 2024

Your report should:

2. In what ways does it balance the needs of all stakeholders?

Appropriate identification of stakeholders, including describing

Three solutions proposed, including best- and worst-case outcome.

Discussion of solution selected, including reference to ethical

Report presentation including Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. 10%

Notes for Discussion marking

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