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Recommended Citation: Harris, R B and K J Harris. Teaching Ethics in MIS Courses: An Introduction to Ethical Intensity and Eight Short Ethical Dilemmas for the Classroom. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2007, v 24 (Pittsburgh): §2515. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 7(6). ISSN: 1545-679X.)

Teaching Ethics in MIS Courses: An Introduction to Ethical Intensity and Eight Short Ethical Dilemmas for the Classroom

Refereed

7 pages

Ranida B. Harris    [a1] [a2]
School of Business
Indiana University Southeast    [u1] [u2]
New Albany, Indiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Kenneth J. Harris    [a1] [a2]
School of Business
Indiana University Southeast    [u1] [u2]
New Albany, Indiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Ethics and ethical considerations are present in all aspects of organizational life. As such, and coupled with their high potential impacts, they need to be discussed in the classroom. One area of ethics that has received less attention relates to ethical situations in the management information systems (MIS) context. This paper hopes to provide additional information on this topic by introducing the ethical intensity construct and discussing how it can be used to help students understand and analyze ethical dilemmas related to MIS work. Further, this paper provides eight different ethical situations that have received less attention in teaching MIS classes, with the ultimate goal of being able to utilize and discuss these dilemmas in the classroom environment.

Keywords: ethics, cases, ethical cases, ethical intensity, ethical dilemmas

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