Ethical Issues With Stakeholders And Career Plan Essay Using SFIA6.

Define the ethical issues.

Describe the ethical issues with the stakeholders.

Identified Stakeholders

In the introduction part the discussion will be made on the arising of ethical issues from the stakeholder’s behaviour. In this case study the given scenario is like that a tablet computer organization has developed a computer tablet with few bugs. The tester of the tablet is Mr. McBright, after testing the tablet he reported about the bug to his head, but instead of the bug Mr. McDonald decided to launch the product to the market and then sell the product to the contracted company who has contract with the company (von Konsky, Miller & Jones, 2016). As the bug in the tablet later creates a virus which destroyed all the customer data of Badluck Bank. The scenario became worst as the after few months the bug leads to burst the frames of the tablet, because of that TastyBurgers Pvt Ltd. Catch fire.

The main stakeholders that are identified from the case study is the Mr. McBright who is the employee and the tester of the NewAge Pty Ltd., Mr McDonald the organizations head, all the employees of BadLuck Bank and the employees of the TastyBurgers Pty Ltd. It is necessary for the stakeholders to follow all the ethics of the company. The responsibility lies on Mrs. McDonald to assess the product then ask the developer of the product to make required changes. A product which have issues if delivered will be an unethical work as it can affect the individuals or the organizations (Shapiro & Stefkovich, 2016). It is the responsibility of the organization head to take care of these matter, as they have the idea of the consequences of delivering a product with lots of issues in it.

A certain ethical dilemma o faced by the stakeholders of the project, the dilemma is like that the companies are accepting the products without knowing the issues in it. Then they sell the products to the customers and after the customers are starting to use the product several issues then comes to affect the device and can harm the individuals as well. The manufacturer and the receiver both of the company faced a huge amount loss (Mason, 2017). Even legal action is taken by the using company against the manufacturing company as they delivered the product with bug after knowing that there is a chance that it will affect the company.

As per the situation an ethical response is needed to be given by the company. The best thing is to detect the issues in the product as early as possible, so that the issues can be mitigated with immediate action and an error free product can be delivered. Mrs. Mcdonald must take of the things more efficiently rather ignoring this small issues in the product because these can be get bigger in the coming days (Edwards et al., 2014). She has a tendency to give favour to the student of her college in the selection process as it is total unethical because everyone must get similar opportunities to get hired in the company. Which is against the professional conduct of the ethics.

Ethical Dilemma

1. Primacy of public interest:

For every organization it is necessary to value the interest of the client first rather than the own interest.

2. Quality Enhancement:

It is the duty of the organization to ensure that the delivered product will be harm free (ACS Code-of-Professional-Conduct_v2.1.pdf, 2018).

3. Honest:

When the deal is done between the company about a product both side need to be remain honest.

4. Competence:

For the project stakeholders must be identified properly. After the bug detected the company must have to be efficient to remove it.

5. Professional Development:

This will be help to improve the personal behaviour of the each employee in the organization and the associate people.

6. Professionalism:

It is necessary for the all employees of the organization to have a professional behaviour which will enable a good relationship with the customers.

Ethical philosophy tells the proper procedure that in which way the tasks are needed to be done. It also tells what is wrong and what is right for every situation. From the ethical philosophy theory a recommendation can be made for the project is that the tablets must be checked before delivering to the market.

The main topic of the discussion of this report is SFIA6, so a career plan for an IT profession can be made. SFIA stands for Skills Framework for the Information Age, it is basically a framework which helps the IT professional to improve the skills. The SFIA6 tells the required skills and knowledge in case of any vacancies (Career Management for Australian IT jobs, 2018). One person is seeking a job can be get help from the SFIA6. In the paper a career plan is developed to get into the IT sector after graduating. The SFIA consist of several different kind of skills. The whole set of the skills are divided into many sub sets.

With the time passes the SFIA is also changing and improving than earlier to satisfy the requirement of the user (How SFIA supports the skills management cycle — SFIA, 2018). In the year 2015 the SFIA 6 was published. The purpose of the SFIA are given bellow:

• For the project plan development skill required
• Position created with description
• Skills analysis
• Reviewed on the performed skills
• Career plan and required skill for career development
• To develop careers in IT the main requirement is to develop the skills (Johnson, 2017).

There are different levels of skills presents in the SFIA 6 which are needed to be applied in the IT roles. In the SFIA all total 97 skills are included. The range of the all skills are from 1 to 7, which is start from the basic to the fully detailed knowledge about the responsibilities (Siedel, 2016). All the knowledge level possessed a different set of knowledge for the skills that are the primary requirement to get into vacancy. The all skills are differentiate into 6 different sections, the all sections are provided below:

1. Architecture and Strategy

2.  Transformation and Change

3.  Engagement and relationships

4. Implementation and Development

5. Operation and Delivery

6. Quality and Skills

All the levels has their own sub parts and the classification. Different levels have different competency level. The different levels done different kind of task all the level consist from the task initiation to the conclusion of the task. To enter into the IT profession, there are seven kind of skills which is needed to be used to develop the career plan (McKenzie, Coldwell-Neilson & Palmer, 2017).

1. Follow: it is necessary for one to follow the all instructions properly, that is the basic level and knowledge that is needed to be tested by the every individual.
2. Assist: take the lead and then assist the other people. It is necessary to take responsibility and then assist the colleagues. By assisting the quality of the head will increase and the juniors will be able to do the task properly.
3. Apply: the skills that are requires for the IT profession must be applied properly to get success. They have to understand the skills to apply on the work.
4. Enable: the skills that are identified earlier need to be implemented effectively and widely. If the skills implemented properly then the project will lead towards success.
5. Ensure and Advice: after the plan is ready for evaluation the employee should communicate with others and take advice to ensure that no issues will occur. It is necessary for the new employees to seek advice from the seniors of the company to work properly according to the plan.
6. Initiate and Influence: in this stage of the skills, the individual is ready to initiate the task and he can influence other employees to do the same work (Schön, 2017).
7. Strategy, inspire and mobilize: in the seventh and the last stage, the people will be able to take all the decisions by himself/herself and then he will be able to make new strategies and inspire others to do the job accordingly.

Conclusion:

It can be concluded from the above report that, there are total seven different skill types in the SFIA. These are required to adopt by the individual to get into the IT profession. The main aim of the SFIA framework is to provide required skills and implementing responsibility among the all employees of the organization.

References:

ACS Code-of-Professional-Conduct_v2.1.pdf (2018). Retrieved from https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-documents/ACS%20Code-of-Professional-Conduct_v2.1.pdf

Career Management for Australian IT jobs. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.matthewb.id.au/career/career-management-IT-jobs-australian-SFIA.html

Edwards, B., Mullan, K., Katz, L., & Higgins, D. (2014). The stronger families in Australia (SFIA) study: Phase 2.

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