University of Saint Thomas of Mozambique
Business School
Submitted By
Nkosingiphile Shabangu
Subject: Management Information Systems
Topic: Ethical implications of Information systems and Management of Information
Systems
Lecturer: Mr Patrick Odadi
Course: BBM
Date: Maputo, Mozambique, February 2018
Management Information System (MIS) is a set of systems and procedures that gather data from
a range of sources compile it and present it in a readable format. Managers use an MIS to create
reports that provide them with a comprehensive overview of all the information they need to
make decisions ranging from daily minutiae to top-level strategy. Today's management
information systems rely largely on technology to compile and present data, but the concept is
older than modern computing technologies
Ethics and Information Systems
Ethics is required in information Systems to overcome the following ethical issues
Privacy: What information about one's self or one's associations must a person reveal to others,
under what conditions and with what safeguards? What things can people keep to themselves and
not be forced to reveal to others?
Accuracy: Who is responsible for the authenticity, fidelity and accuracy of information?
Similarly, who is to be held accountable for errors in information and how is the injured party to
be made whole?
Property: Who owns information? What are the just and fair prices for its exchange? Who owns
the channels, especially the airways, through which information is transmitted? How should
access to this scarce resource be allocated?
Accessibility: What information does a person or an organization have a right or a privilege to
obtain, under what conditions and with what safeguards?
Information System ethics explores and evaluates the development of moral values in the
information field, the creation of new power structures in the information field, information
myths,hidden contradictions and intentionality's in information theories and practices, th
development of ethical conflicts in the information field.