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Why and how are ethics an issue for a knowledge worker information system? Explain your rationale.

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The solution describes why ethics is an issue for workers in information system.

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Wu, et. al (2011) wrote that "...ICT workers are, or ought to be, accountable for their actions in their professional fields".
True indeed, knowledge workers carry with them the key to proper functioning of an information system in an organization. Usually, they are entrusted with all the confidential aspects of the organization. A single unauthorized entry to the heart of the information system will be costly.

On the other hand, it would be easy for a knowledge worker to wreck havoc to the organizations' information system just by introducing viruses into the system.

A knowledge worker, according to DHRA (n.d), if not grounded on the organization's code of ethics might do ...

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