D1 Compare Legal, ethical and Operational Issues that may affect organisations

Distinction 1

Compare how two issues from each of the criteria affect two different organisations ( Public, Private, Non - Profit)

Complete the comparison in a table.

For a distinction criterion D1, evidence must include a comparison of at least two criteria for each of the legal, ethical and operational issues and how they affect at least two different organisation types.

The Private Sector

An easier way to think of the private sector is by thinking of organizations that are not owned or operated by the government. For example, retail stores, credit unions, and local businesses will operate in the private sector.The private sector is usually composed of organizations that are privately owned and not part of the government. These usually includes corporations (both profit and non-profit), partnerships, and charities.

The Public Sector

Some examples of public bodies in Canada and the United Kingdom are educational bodies, health care bodies, police and prison services, and local and central government bodies and their departments.The public sector is usually composed of organizations that are owned and operated by the government. This includes federal, provincial, state, or municipal governments, depending on where you live. Privacy legislation usually calls organizations in the public sector a public body or a public authority.

Unit 2 Information Systems - P3 Report

The complete report on how Legislation, Ethical Issues & Operational Issues impact organisations.

Submit the assignment on Edmodo.

https://www.edmodo.com/post/165960698

The deadline for the report is Fri 18th October 2013

P3 Operational Issues

Operational Issues (main heading)
Part 3 or your report on the issues related to the use of information this is added to the information on Legislation and Ethics

Security of information (e.g. backups - Companies should make frequent backups of information in case of problems)

Health and safety (e.g. processes, procedures, regulations)

Health & Safety at work act 1974

Organisational policies - An organisation's policies may have a significant effect on how it treats information.

Strong Hierarchy - may operate on a need to know basis.
Decentralised - staff at one location may not have access to certain files.

Costs (e.g. for development, modification, training, system upgrades)

Additional Resources - new equipment purchase & installation, training.

Development - when budgeting for a news system.

Continuance Planning - A Business Continuance Plan is put in place to plan how the business will continue if this go wrong.

P3 Ethical issues (lesson 2)

In the previous lesson the class looked at:

• Codes of practice; Email, Internet, Internal Policies, intellectual property and content in the workplace.

Today the class will focus on:

• Examples of ethical issues (e.g. moral(honesty, accountability, integrity and dedication), whistle blowing (how will the organisation respond and protect those staff who inform of malpractice), disability, use of information)

Study the media for examples of ethical issues and whistle blowing, to see examples of staff who have reported malpractice.

Whistle-blower 

Whistle blowing is when a worker reports suspected wrongdoing at work. Officially this is called ‘making a disclosure in the public interest’.A worker can report things that aren’t right, are illegal or if anyone at work is neglecting their duties, including:

• someone’s health and safety is in danger

• damage to the environment

• a criminal offence

• the company isn’t obeying the law (like not having the right insurance)

• covering up wrongdoing

https://www.gov.uk/whistleblowing/overview

Use of Information

The department that produced the data should own every field of data in every record.  Information ownership is much more complex. Many data owners may have supplied the original data that has been processed to produce this information.

We must ensure that sensitive or confidential information is carefully protected in order to safeguard the interests of the Organization, our clients, partners and staff. Confidential information must never be disclosed or used improperly for personal or other private gain.

http://www.un.org/en/ethics/information.shtml

Disability 

An employer who’s recruiting staff may make limited enquiries about your health or disability.

You can only be asked about your health or disability:

• to help decide if you can carry out a task that is an essential part of the work
• to help find out if you can take part in an interview
• to help decide if the interviewers need to make reasonable adjustments for you in a selection process
• to help monitoring
• if they want to increase the number of disabled people they employ
• if they need to know for the purposes of national security checks

You may be asked whether you have a health condition or disability on an application form or in an interview. You need to think about whether the question is one that is allowed to be asked at that stage of recruitment.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/disability/law.htm

Reporting Bad practice

Similar to whistle blowing but within an organisation how is bad practice reported in workplace.

Breaches

In data, security or information within an organisation.