I. You are enjoying your job as a summer intern in the IT department of a local company. At lunch yesterday, several people were discussing ethical issues. You learned that some of them belong to IT organizations that have ethical codes to guide members and set professional standards. For example, your supervisor belongs to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which has over 100,000 members from more than 100 countries and a website at acm.org. Your supervisor said that the ACM code of ethics is important to her, and would definitely influence her views. On the other hand, one of the senior programmers believes that his own personal standards would be sufficient to guide him if ethical questions were to arise. 1. Because you are excited about your career as an IT professional, you decide to visit ACMs website to examine the code of ethics and make up your own mind. After you do so, would you tend to agree more with your supervisor or with the senior programmer?

II. NewTech Interview:

You You have an interview for an IT position with NewTech, a large telecommunications company, and you want to learn more about the firm and its organizational structure. To prepare for the interview, you decide to review your knowledge about corporations, including the following questions:

Tasks

1.What are the four organizational level in a typical company?

2.Go online and find three examples of retailers that offer both in-store and Web-based sales. What were the firms? Which one did you like best, and why?

3.What is empowerment? Provide two specific examples.

4.What types of information systems might a large company use? Would the same systems be found in a smaller firm? Why or why not?