**2.2 Ethics**

Ethics are the set of rules or guidelines which govern behaviour and are usually established by a group or culture. They are derived from values. Ethics are implemented in the organisation to protect the interests of stakeholders (clients/ customers, suppliers, employees, society and government. Thus they are needed to create conformity and order, and can enable members of a grouping (organisation, business) to interact harmoniously and are an enabler to achieving goals that would not be achieved individually.

Being ethical means supporting the realisation of positive values or the reduction of negative values [ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011].

## **2.3 Why values and ethics matter**

Values are the driving force in ethical decision making.


*How Factoring Ethics Encourages and Stimulates Innovative Development of IT Systems… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97556*

