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Ethical Factors
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- Luke’s legal, professional, employment, personal, and intrinsic factors
- Legal factors
- Intellectual Property Theft: Luke created off-site backups without the director’s permission.
- Breach of Agreement with TT: Luke created off-site backups.
- Privacy Legislation: Luke discussed TT web-portal work files from his past job with the Tangential manager.
- Confidentiality: Luke discussed prior work completed at another organisation with his new employer.
- Piracy: Luke used TT backup files for programming and framework assistance.
- Code of Ethical Conduct: Luke minimised his integrity when he first created an off-site backup.
- Professional factors
- Acknowledged Backups: Luke mentioned to his Tangential manager the work he took from TT.
- Manager Signifying Theft: Luke felt uneasy when the Tangential manager offered him the lead role while he was using TT’s work.
- Employment and social factors
- Project Outcomes: At TT, attention was focused on project outcomes without acknowledging the workers’ contributions.
- Work Experience: Luke’s work experience was highly valuable for his future.
- Existing Student: TT hired Luke as an intern for its upcoming project.
- Long Hours: Luke felt underappreciated.
- Insufficient Money: Luke felt he was not paid enough.
- Comments: Luke’s fellow students voiced disparaging comments about the portal at Altiora.
- Personal factors
- Get Ahead: Luke was ignorant of the law while trying to advance his career.
- Married: Luke got married.
- Bigger Place: Luke and his wife needed a bigger place to live.
- Family: Luke and his wife wanted a family one day.
- Own Studio: Luke wanted to have his own studio.
- Lead Role: Luke led a web-portal project for a high-end client at Tangential.
- Senior Director: Luke had the job description of senior director.
- Intrinsic factors
- One Year of Work Experience: Luke worked at TT for one year to achieve his degree.
- Co-developer: Luke gained co-developer skills during that year.
- Multimedia Degree: Luke received his multimedia degree.
- Team Leader: Luke became a team leader at Tangential.
- Senior Project Manager: Luke achieved this job description at Tangential through his efforts.
- Own Studio: Luke owns his own studio.
- Director: Luke is the director of his own studio.
