Professionalism

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Professionalism

• Ch 1 Hoffman text

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Admin
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Career Expectations

• Self-employed or work for a organization
• If self-employed
• Experience/field etc.
• What do you expect?
• See Polleverywhere links on schedule

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What does your employer expect?

• If self-employed
• You make the rules
• You choose working hours, holidays
• You survive or starve

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Employer expectations II

• Non-professional
• Fixed hours, defined job
• Professional
• undefined hours (24/7), voice in job
• All
• TACT (Hoffman p4)

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TACT

• Technical competence
• Problem-solving, independent
• Big picture
• Attitude
• Communication
• Teamwork

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Professionalism

• Review Hoffman definition of profession, trade
  and craft Chapter 1, pp7-12
• What would you add or subtract from these
  definitions?
• Choice vs. responsibility as you climb the
  corporate tree
• Workhours
• Productivity
• Ownership of IP
• Is IT a Profession, a Trade or a Craft?
• Which of these will you pursue

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IT case studies

• Discussion Questions
• Ch 1 Review Q 8, 11, 13
• What about using Internet during work hours?
• Is IT a Profession, a Trade or a Craft?
• Which of these will you pursue

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Homework (see Blackboard)

• Is IT (as taught at BYU and as you intend to
  pursue your career) a profession or a skilled
  trade/craft? Justify your answer by referring to
  specific characteristics of IT and specific
  characteristics of professions, trades and crafts
• Where does certification fit?
• List two to four specific steps you will take to
  establish and develop your status as a IT
  professional or IT craftsman in the years
  immediately after your graduation.
• Choice of employment, certification, professional
  organizations, dress, further education,
  volunteering, attitude, professional
  registration, etc.

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Jobs in 2010?

• Employment Report Says US Lost Most Jobs Since
  1945.
• Financial Times (1/9, Guha, Ward, Luce) reported,
  "The US economy lost more than half a million
  jobs in December for the second month running,
  figures showed on Friday, making 2008 the worst
  year for job losses since 1945 and intensifying
  pressure on Congress to pass a fiscal stimulus."
  President-elect Barack Obama "seized on the
  report...to urge swift passage of his proposed
  near-800bn fiscal stimulus." The loss of
  "524,000 jobs in December was less than feared by
  some analysts, but investors focused on the
  report's grim details, sending the SP 500 down
  1.6 per cent at midday" on Friday.
•         Bloomberg News (1/10, Miller, Chandra)
  reported, "Job losses last month were widespread,
  with manufacturers, builders, retailers and
  temporary-help agencies axing positions.
  Companies also cut back employees' working hours,
  which economists said could be a harbinger of
  more job declines." Manufacturers have said "they
  will cut output and staff, and retailers from
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Macy's Inc. slashed
  profit forecasts after the worst holiday-
  shopping season in almost four decades." The
  Labor Department also "issued revised figures
  from its household survey, which includes the
  unemployment rate, going back five years. ...
  Last month's decline was the 12th consecutive
  drop in payrolls." Analysts said the "economy may
  be in danger of a reinforcing cycle of rising
  unemployment and declining household spending."
•         The New York Times (1/10, A1, Uchitelle)
  reported in a front page story, "The total number
  of jobs lost in the recession now totals 2.59
  million, counting upward revisions for October
  and November, with many more job losses expected
  in coming months. Nearly as troubling, hundreds
  of thousands more people sought full-time work in
  December but could not get more than part-time
  jobs." Many economists see "9 or 10 percent
  unemployment by early next year, and a jobless
  recovery that continues for about six months even
  after the economy ceases to contract."
•         The Wall Street Journal (1/10, Evans,
  Maher) reported, "Job losses spared no region or
  sector, except for small increases in education
  and health-care services and government
  employment." Meanwhile, "the number of Americans
  collecting unemployment benefits has risen since
  the employment survey was conducted in the second
  week of December, hitting a fresh 26-year high in
  the closing days of 2008." Manufacturing, "often
  a bellwether for the U.S. economy, shed 149,000
  jobs in December, the most since 2001. The
  long-resilient service sector also showed
  considerable weakness, in retail, hospitality and
  professional services."

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Ethics

• Codes of Ethics
• IEEE Code of Ethics
• ACM Code of Ethics
• What is the difference between moral and legal?
• How can you choose among ethical decisions in
  professional situations?
• Is there a difference between personal and
  business ethics?

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Ethics and BYU

• Employer expectations
• Where much is given much is required Lk 1248
• Honor Code
• Is this a code of ethics?
• Does it apply beyond BYU?
• Integrity
• wholeness, unity, Job 275,6
• God forbid that I should justify you till I die
  I will not remove mine integrity from me. My
  righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it
  go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I
  live.