ETHICAL ISSUES AND DILEMMAS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Contemporary society is faster-moving and changing globally, emotionally, technologically, and environmentally. People and organizations have changing needs and expectations. More and more people are employed collecting, handling, and distributing information. So in society arise new ethical dimensions - how to manage data, how to think about the truth, etc. Therefore the organizational practices have been implemented on the basis of organizational norms, rules, and values that have been agreed upon by society. In the so called information age, when information are easy to access and easy to falsify, starts a growing necessity to solve ethical issues than ever before. In contemporary society, the ethical issues must be dealt with the individual, social, and political levels at various dimensions - information rights and obligations, property rights and obligations, system quality, quality of life and others. This article deals with the current ethical issues and dilemmas in contemporary society and attempts to look for ways in which they can be solved.