Ethical and Social Issues Raised by Information System

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Quality of life -Technology increases efficiency. By itself, it sounds positive. But upon further investigation, we will realize that efficiency does not necessarily lead to higher quality of life. It may increase health risk; nowadays people are more willing to spend more time at home online instead of going outside exercise. It may cause health problem such as obesity, myopia, computer vision syndrome (CVS) etc. Example: there are a lot of kid now wearing glasses because they too addicted in playing online games and cause them myopia( short sightless). Also, the information system is changing the nature of work. Peoples now can work at home instead of going office. But this may cause them lose to develop their team work, leadership, social skill and opportunity to gain experience in real working lifestyle. Furthermore, information system may lead “flattens organization”. There are thousands of job now can be takeover by information system, as the cost of information system is lower, it is substitution of workforce. Therefore, the information system reengineering jobless. System Quality: Data Quality and System Errors -Nowadays the users are heavily rely on information system to done their work, they cannot work efficiently without computerized system. Assume that one day the system down and it is time consuming for the specialist to fixed the system, are the staff still available to done their job? Also, Information system increase boundary spanning. An individual can access any information in any part of the organization with the aid of the appropriate technology. This eliminates the need for the repetition of information thus promotes non- redundancy. As the users rely on information more, data quality issues are gaining

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