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EXAM 3 Please put Your NameCSC309 on the Back of the LastMiller/Spring01 PageCovered on Exam2 for Spring 09 class.1. In the hospital scenario given in the paper “How Good is Good Enough”, it seemed that a lot of people did a lot of things right and still there were problems. One drug dosage was 10 times what it should have been but it was not clear what the source of the problem was. Identify something that could have been done that wasn’t that could have eliminated, minimized or at least made the problem easier to solve when it happened.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Covered on Exam2 for Spring 09 class.2. In the scenario given in the paper “How Good is Good Enough” it was reasoned that if we applied a Rawlsian negotiation scheme to our hospital software problem, we would probably arrive at the following principles.1. Least Advantaged. ________________________________________________________________________________________________2. Risking Harm. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________3. ___________________________ Use for determining difficult cost benefit trade-offs. Covered on Exam2 for Spring 09 class.3. In the scenario given in the paper “How Good is Good Enough” who was the “Penumbra”?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. The computer (technology) appears to be impacting the very structure of businesses. Comment on the impact onEmployee loyalty and identification with the company______________________________________________________Middle management _______________________________________________________Percentage of full time employees_______________________________________________________5. We have seen a rather significant increase in the number of individuals who are using a computer link to work from home althougha number of companies are now rethinking their support for teleworking. Give two advantages that this teleworking has for the employee.a. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________b. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. Telecomuting (teleworking) is more environmentally friendly than is the traditional work place. Explain._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7. We added a vocabulary word when talking about the Australian Repetitive Stress Injury epidemic._____________________ = a phenomenon where the physical symptoms are real but the causes are psychological.8. We have seen new technologies (or at least read about them) which when introduced caused unemployment [weaving machines, tractors, milking machines, vacuum cleaners, dish washers, car washes, etc.] and now we have the computer. How does the group of people pushed into unemployment by the introduction of computers tend to differ from those impacted by previous technology advances?a. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________b. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________9. We know what the meaning of the expression "Haves and Have Nots" means with regard to those people who can afford a computer and those who can not. What does the expression "Haves and Have Laters" mean? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________10. The Blacksburg Electronic Village (Not discussed this session)11. In this class, we have attempted to make a distinction between “ethics” and “professional ethics.” Two reasons that has been put forth for professional ethics to having a different emphasis than general ethics are:1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________12. Before anyone decides to violate a rule or law it would make very good sense to spend the necessary time and effort to find out why the rule or law is there. But, if one decides to violate it because it is viewed as unethical, or for any other reason for that matter, then ___________________________________________________________________________________________________13. When do you have an obligation to honor a company policy you view as being unreasonable? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________14. A software consultant evaluates a customer’s needs and realizesthat software from a company in which he is a major stockholder appears to be the best product to recommend. In this situation Professional ethics would require that he __________________________________ because______________________________________________________________________15. Professional organizations (we looked at a number of computer related ones) seem to find it to their advantage to establish codes of ethics. The two primary reasons given are that codes of ethics 1. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________16. Martha, a practicing computer professional has been caught, as have a number of her co-workers, by salary compression. This is what happens when entry level salaries rise quicker than normal salaries and results in the inexperienced new people being paid better than productive experienced employees. To add insult to injury Martha with her four productive years with the company is tasked with chairing a search committee that will offer individuals who do not have her credentials a starting salary considerably higher than she currently makes. Quite by accident she learns that a co-worker also caught by salary compression but with fewer years with the firm has had his salary adjusted to eliminate salary compression putting him much better paid


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