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MIS741 - Ethics of Digital Transformation Assignment - Deakin University, Australia

Assessment - Part A Report (Research) and Part B Video Recording

Unit Learning Outcome (ULO) -

ULO 1: Justify resolutions to ethical dilemmas faced by IS professionals resulting from competing personal, organizational and client interests using ethical theories and frameworks.

ULO 2: Present convincing resolutions to ethical dilemmas in written and oral form.

ULO3: Apply digital technologies effectively to support researching, analysing and presenting complex information relating to information systems contexts.

Description / Requirements - This is an individual assignment where you will synthesise research sources on the following digital transformation topic, and then produce a Research Report using the Ethical Decision-Making.

Framework introduced in topic 2 and an associated Video Recording:

Synthesis the extent research evidence shows that consumers/citizens do or do not know the level of their privacy loss/risks when using social media, and what this implies could be future privacy issues for consumers/citizens if current privacy levels continue.

Research the topic -

The report is not about your personal moral views about the digital transformation topic. Instead, research the topic by finding and synthesising credible academic resources sources (e.g. journal articles, PhD theses, conference papers, credible research studies) and industry sources (e.g. industry research reports from companies like Gartner Group, reports from relevant professional bodies, etc). Quality and credible resource sources are those reporting empirical research (e.g. experiments, surveys, case studies) about the topic ( not opinions of the authors), or reporting on the evidence about the topic from the perspective of a variety of stakeholder types.

The research you undertake should enable you to determine the answers to all the questions (directly or indirectly) in the Ethical Decision-Making Framework about how various stakeholders in the topic 2 framework may be affected by the digital transformation topic. The report should not consider short-term issues (e.g. immediate profits), but rather the medium to long - term (e.g. 10-50 year) implications of the digital transformation on all stakeholders. Research sources can therefore include evidence of past digital transformation issues, and used to justify how stakeholders might be affected in future if the topic is not addressed by digital transformation professionals. Research sources should be quality, which means "older" research is acceptable when combined with recent research sources, but not low quality research sources. Evidence of GLO8 Global Citizenship will include the quality of the research, and how well the framework is used, to justify the topic.

You must ensure that your research and analysis of the topic has balanced/even coverage of the perspective of all stakeholder types in the topic 2 framework. A focus on organisation stakeholders (e.g. shareholders, staff, immediate clients) is not balanced. Similarly, balanced research and analysis will include equal coverage of the risks and benefits (not just benefits) relating to the topic for each stakeholder type from the topic 2 framework. As required by the ACS Code of Professional Conduct, the most important stakeholder group is "the public", not organisation stakeholders, and consideration of all the risks for the public. For this reason, a report with an unbalanced focus on organisational stakeholders and benefits will not receive a good result in this assignment, because it does not demonstrate good understanding of GLO8 Global Citizenship. A balanced analysis and report on multiple stakeholder types, and benefits versus risks, will also result in a more convincing justification (GLO2 Communication) of how the ethics of digital transformation can be improved.

GLO3 Digital Literacy will be assessed on how well you have used digital literacy skills to research and analysis the topic. Evidence of digital literacy with regards to research will be shown by submitting full-text copies of your research sources in PDF format, so ensure all sources are downloaded. This means there must be a PDF file for each reference in the reference list of the report. You are not permitted to use books, electronic books (due to copyright restrictions), videos, audio, etc for your resource sources. Only articles or reports which can be submitted as a PDF file.

Create a research synthesis matrix for the topic

You will analyse and synthesise the research sources into a research synthesis matrix (e.g. a Word or Excel document), which can have a column for each stakeholder type. You will know when you have identified a good research source, if it considers multiple stakeholder types (or has multiple columns in the matrix). Resource sources which consider organisation stakeholders only, and also benefits relating to the topic only, should be avoided/minimised for your research synthesis.

You will use the matrix document to write a completely separate report document (i.e. Word file). The following is an example paragraph written about the theme/column by finding similarities and differences among the research sources, which would be written in the report document.

 What to include in the Research Report

You will write an individual Research Report, where the audience is the academic marker, as follows (after researching the topic and creating the research synthesis matrix):

A cover page with the assignment title ("Assessment 1 - Research Report"), unit code and name, your name and student ID, and the word count. This cover page is not included in the word count.

A maximum of 2,500 words for the report body, using the Ethical Decision-Making Framework introduced in topic 2, to analyse the topic stated above.

The report will have a very short introduction (approximately 50 words), multiple sections/subsections, and very short conclusion (approximately 50 words). Note that in -text citations (see details below) are included in the word count.

A reference list including at least twenty (20) high quality research sources cited in the report body in the Harvard format style using the "(Author, Year)" approach to in -text citation. This reference list is not included in the word count.

In separate files, which are not included in the word count, you will submit (see the Submission instructions section below):

Your research synthesis matrix (not included in the word count).

Complete, full text PDF copy of every research source in the reference list.

Attachment:- Ethics of Digital Transformation Assignment File.rar