IMPROVING PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT THROUGH THE USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Improving work ethics and moral standards through the Integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become a global practice. There has been a paradigm shift from resource to knowledge based and ICT driven eco nomy. Economic prosperity and productivity of an organization are linked with strong work ethics and moral standards, especially through deployment of relevant ICT devices such as Biometric recognition system which deals with ethical issues like lateness and absenteeism at work place. Monitoring employees’ behavour will obviously impact work ethics and moral standards positively. Ways in which the behavour of employees can be monitored to ensure that they carry out their responsibilities effectively on their assigned duties no doubt has been a problem in recent times and any management that fails to oversee its workforce to ensure that employees are not spending valuable company time for which they are compensated is failing in its mandate. ICT has become an essential and valuable tool highly used to enhance and monitor the commitments of employees thereby improving work ethics. With wide-spread deployment of ICT in organizations, security and privacy issues have bec ome a major concern among the employers. To address the perceived security threats and vulnerability issues, the research ers focused on theoretical analysis of biometric recognition system (an ICT device) , concentrating on how it improves work ethics when properly deployed and implemented. The research equally discussed how the biometric system works, the best biometric method, security threats and vulnerabilities in using this system and equally provides measures to mitigate them. Lastly, the study recommends the need to sensitize employees on the perceived security threats and also encourage various organizations to begin massive deployment of Bio metric recognition systems as this will help improve work ethics and enhance productivity.