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Any successful construction, implementation and use of information technology systems require many different things. Satisfaction of economical and technological aspects used to (and still is) in focus, but today other aspects such as ethical issues take a bigger part in the way a system functions. In this paper we focus on ethical competence and discuss a psychological approach on how this competence can be achieved and maintained in a highly changing work environment dominated by the use of IT-tools. Ethical competence is an important emerging factor determining the optimal use of information technology systems, and affecting work environment as well as profits.