Computerised shipping documents

Fremantle Fisheries (FF) operates a fleet of fishing boats out ofthree portsin Western Australia - Fremantle, Bunbury andGeraldton. Each port has its own fishing fleet and all seafood caught is sold through the Fish Marketing Board, a board established by the state government. The accounting procedures for all sales to the Board are centralized and handled by acomputerized accounting systemat FF'shead office in Perth. The majority of the company's employees work on the fishing boats, and are paid bonuses from head office, depending on the volume, typeand quality of seafood caught. This means that head office must be able toidentify the source of each shipment sent to the Board.

John Dorey, who was originally based in Geraldton and handled the accounting procedures at Geraldton before computerization, is now based in Perth as manager of the computerized accounting system.His father and two sistersare still based in Geraldton and work for the company on the fishing boats, as do many friends of the family.

Shipping documents are sent to the Perth head office from all three port, and thesource of the shipmentis clearly marked in the top right-hand corner of the documents. Occasionally, however,details of the source are missing, and it is not easy to trace the source quickly.Dorey, in his capacity as manager of the system, is keen to keep the system fully operational and up to date, and hasinstructed the keyboard operatortoinsert any one of three Geraldton source codes, namely those of his father and two sister,whenever the source code is missingfrom the shipping document. Thekeyboard operatorknows that the code given are those belonging to his boss's family, butnevertheless complies with the requestfor fear that non-compliance may lead to his own dismissal.

Required

A. Who are thestakeholdersin this situation?

B. What are theethical issuesinvolved here as a result ofDorey's requestand theaction taken by the keyboard operator?

C.If you were the keyboard operator,what action (if any) would you take to prevent this situation occurring? Why?