ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the research on all three levels of ethical scope in detail. It looks at high level workforce trends and the necessity of mutual commitment to ethical conduct by both information technology (IT) workers and their employers. The book also explores micro ethics further and create a personal decisionmaking ethical framework as it relates to IT outsourcing. It considers the question of ethics on a molar level, relating to a corporation as whole. The book discusses the macro or large scale ethics of economics. The central ethical issue in IT outsourcing at a macro level is the transfer of corporate labor dollars overseas and the resulting disenfranchisement of US-based workers who are economically impacted through job losses. Egoless decision making is an effective ethical framework at the personal or micro level of ethics.
