Pick one of the preceding cases and create an argument on behalf of the employee
Ethics – Invading Your Privacy
The Blog topic is based on ‘Ethics – Invading Your Privacy’ (Section 13/Plug In B7 Closing Case 2), Integrating the Enterprise, IS Function & IS Technologies.Each student is required to answer one of the 4 case study questions. During the first week of class, each student will be assigned a number which is listed in the ‘Announcements’ area, titled ‘Blog Assignments’. Please respond to the question which corresponds with your assigned number.
1. Pick one of the preceding cases and create an argument on behalf of the employee.
Smyth verses Pillsbury Company
Bourke verses Nissan Motor Corporation
McLaren verses Microsoft Corporation
Proper business ethics dictates that an organization sets up business policies and carries out its operations and transactions in an appropriate and humane manner. Even though businesses have the right to monitor the workforce while they are working employees have a pragmatic expectation of privacy in some matters. These expectations may be in the line of acceptable, fair and ethical employee privacy. There are several situations that an organization may infringe on the rights of employees such as communication, background check, drug testing, personal and medical records. An organization has to consider the basic foundation of ethics before executing privacy measures for the employees and should take necessary countermeasures in case of any issues.
This was clearly seen in the case of Bourke versus Nissan Motor Corporation which occurred during the training of new employees on the email system. Bonita Bourke email was randomly selected and reviewed which turned out be personal email of a sexual nature. Nissan did not have existing warnings or policies for use of email use within the organization until this case. The use of business related work on company devices must have been mandated by the organization to avoid such ethical situations. Hence it is important at the outset to recognize that the management’s drive to control the workplace is frequently justified by the need to ensure that it is not subject to legal or ethical action by employees. There should be clear policies set in place so that the privacy of the employees can be safeguarded and at the same time the trustworthy nature of the employer can be judged by his actions.
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