Unit 5: Unit 5: The Employee Stakeholder – Web Field Trip
Employee monitoring practices are often implemented without an employee’s consent or awareness. With technological advances making a wide variety of stealth monitoring techniques available, organizations face a challenging balancing act considering legitimate business concerns while respecting their employees’ right to privacy. In this Assignment, you will discuss the issue of workplace privacy with your fellow students.
First read the transcript of the NPR story on workplace cheating.
- Click here to download and read the transcript of the National Public Radio feature “Shirking Work”
- Then examine the following four areas of workplace privacy according to the guidelines listed below:
- Drug testing
- E-mail privacy
- Telephone conversation privacy
- Personal privacy
Write a 100-word essay answering the following questions: Take time to review the responses of your classmates and provide your feedback.
- What promotes the differing views managers and employees have on privacy issues?
- What should a company have access to regarding an employee’s personal life, and what is not reasonable?
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