...during work improve productivity, or does it act as a distraction? The significant increase of technology and connectivity in the workplace in recent years has lead to an unexpected, potentially negative, by-product of behaviours demonstrated by many employees, which is now commonly referred to as cyberloafing, cyberdeviancy or cyberslacking. While on the surface the initial response by most business owners and managers is that cyberloafing is a wasteful activity costing the company money through loss of productivity as a result of employees spending company time on personal endeavours, there has been another, more positive spin off, to the personal use of technology. These aspects have been investigated and expanded upon during numerous investigations into these behaviours. It has also been found that there are several factors within the workplace, such as technology use policies, that can contribute to employee behaviours in relation to use of company provided technologies that will be explored within this essay. 1 While many business owners and managers would like to see the occurrence of cyberloafing in the workplace eradicated completely there is plenty of evidence available from multiple independent studies that not all personal technology use in the workplace has a negative affect on worker productivity or workplace moral. It has been reported that brief periods of personal use of workplace technology for tasks such as sending...
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...helpful to understand the attitude towards Internet usage issue from the employer’s side. Akman, I., & Mishra, A. (July 21, 2010). Predictive Effect of Gender and Sector Differences on Internet Usage among Employees. Engineering Economics, 21, 3, 295-305. This paper recognizes the increasing usage of Internet in organizations and the need from policy makers to understand their employees’ Internet usage patterns and purposes. The authors concluded predictive effects of gender and sector differences on Internet usage. This article provides helpful insight to understand the patterns and purposes of employees’ Internet usage Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara, P. (April 24, 2009). Inequity, conflict, and compliance dilemma as causes of cyberloafing. International Journal of Conflict Management, 20, 2, 188-201. This...
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...Ethical and Legal Issues Concerning At-will Employment Jasmine Mills Park University Abstract As years pass by, every sphere of life is taking a new dimension; for instance, advancing technology. This has resulted in some ethical issues in workplaces such as cyberloafing, privacy, information technology usage, employee monitoring. Also, legal issues in workplaces such as lawsuits have emerged. Both employers and employees are worried about the ethical consequences resulting from the ethical issues While bosses use surveillance devices to keep track of their workers' activities and output, these workers feel that excessive monitoring is an attack on their confidentiality and privacy. The strategy of checking workers on a timely basis is contributed by the fact that bosses have rights over everything in the “at-will employment environment.” Additionally, this paper provides a proposal for reducing the ethical and legal issues. The paper also encourages organizations to generate and efficiently communicate ethical standards for workers in their companies. It also includes real examples of workers' perceptions as well as an emotional state from the surveys based on ethical and legal issues raised regarding the topic of study. Keywords: At-will employment, employee monitoring, Ethical and legal issues. Introduction At- will means employment can be terminated at any time, for any reason or no reason without facing legal action. Likewise, an employee can quit a job with or...
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...COURSE : DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | COURSEWORK 1 Year | 2015 | MONTH | JANUARY 2016 | Subject | BDB1394 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR | Weightage | 30% (INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT) | Submission Date | 10th March 2015 | REGULATIONS A. Late Submission * A 10% deduction per day of total coursework marks (excluding weekends and public holidays). * Late submission between 5 to 10 days, results in a 50% deduction of total coursework marks. * Late submission past 10 days results in an automatic 0% for coursework and the student will be barred from the final examination. B. Deliverables Students must submit all materials supporting their coursework listed in the deliverable section. * The coursework must be done INDIVIDUALLY and must be entirely your own work. Please make sure that you are aware of the rules concerning plagiarism. If you are unclear about them, please consult your program coordinator/lecturer. Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes: copying information directly from the Web or books without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from another student and submitting it as your own. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be dealt with according to the procedures set down by the university/college. * The coursework should exhibit formal research skills...
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...Chapter Five Business Communication: Creating and Delivering Messages that Matter Review Questions 1. What are the 6 main barriers to effective communication? Which barriers are easiest to surmount? Why? 2. Why is nonverbal communication so important? How can you tell when nonverbal communication is effective? 3. Why is active, effective listening difficult for many people? What are 5 strategies for improving listening skills within the American culture? 4. What factors should you consider when you choose a communication channel for your messages? Should you always use the richest channel? Why or why not? 5. When you develop messages, what factors should you consider as you choose your words? Which considerations do you think are most important? Why? 6. How should the needs and expectations of your reader affect the structure of your writing? Why does it matter? 7. What steps can you take to create a smooth, conversational tone for your writing? 8. Why do so many people ignore or delete email messages? How can you boost the chances that your target audience will read your message? 9. What are your options for creating an effective opening “hook” for a verbal presentation? Why is humor not always the best...
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...cost us money is through productivity at work, along with days lost at work due to accidents. Recent studies are starting to back up this claim as well. The United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recently released statistics that show the number of work-related accidents goes up on the Monday following the time change (Mercola). This same report also showed that the severity of the accidents increased as well (Mercola). “A study released in 2009 showed that work-related accidents increased as much as six percent, and nearly 68 percent more workdays are lost due to injuries suffered the Monday after Daylight Savings Time” (Mercola). “Cyberloafing” is when an employee uses his or her computer for things not work related including surfing the web and social media. Studies have shown that “cyberloafing” increases as much as 20 percent on the Monday following the time change (Wagner and Barnes). When it all comes together recent estimates put the total economic cost of Daylight Savings Time in the United States at $434 million dollars annually (Wagner and Barnes). So why does the number of accidents, and loss in productivity increase due to a small change in time? What makes one seem to appear a little lazier on the Monday following the time change? Most doctors and psychologist believe it has to do with the added stress that comes along with not getting enough sleep. I have to admit from my own experience that I agree with them. It is common knowledge that...
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...Washington, DC: Author. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. Conlin, M. (1997). Workers, surf at your own risk. Business Week Online. Retrieved from: www.businessweek.com/2000/00_24/b3685257.htm Cooper, A., Safir, M., & Rosenmann, A. (2006). Workplace Worries: A Preliminary Look at Online Sexual Activities at the Office—Emerging Issues for Clinicians and Employers. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 9(1), 22-29. doi:10.1089/cpb.2006.9.22 David, John. (2002). Policy enforcement in the workplace. Computers & Security. 21(6), 506-513. doi:10.1016/S0167-4048(02)01006-43 De Lara, P. Z. M., Tacoronte, D.V., & Ding, J. T. (2006). Do current anti-cyberloafing disciplinary practices have a replica in research findings?: A study of the effects of coercive strategies on workplace internet misuse. Internet Research. 16(4), 450-467. DOI 10.1108/10662240610690052. Foster, M. (2001). Be Alert to the Signs of Employee Internet Addiction. National Public Accountant, 46(9), 39. Greenfield, D. (1999). Internet addiction: disinhibition, accelerated intimacy and other theoretical considerations. Presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston. Greenfield, D., & Davis, R. (2002)....
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... Latson then says, “although [Daylight Savings Time] is the go-to response to any American energy shortfall. the jury’s still out on whether it does any good” (Latson). This shows that, today, people aren’t sure if Daylight Savings Time even improves energy savings– so why should Americans still have to practice this? The last reason that Daylight Savings Time should not be implemented anymore is because it decreases productivity nationwide. Cari Romm from The Cut says, the workday after shifting an hour forward is called Sleepy Monday (Romm). These Sleepy Mondays are the most inefficient days of the year– where people just spend time scrolling mindlessly on their devices. This activity of carelessly wandering the internet is called cyberloafing, which is “6.4% more common on Sleepy Mondays” (Romm). In summary, the drop in productivity on Sleepy Mondays, caused by Daylight Savings Time, is a strong reason to stop implementing it. On the other hand, Daylight Savings Time is beneficial for the United States because it keeps the nation safe. Beverly Bird from Las Vegas Review Journal writes, “the U.S. Department of Transportation indicates that daylight saving time has a lowering effect on crime rates because many crimes tend to occur in the dark” (Bird). This improves the safety of the nation because there is more daylight, meaning that suspicious activity generally doesn’t happen as often. People who agree with this statement would be wrong because even though Daylight Savings...
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...My current organization can leverage the inimitable resources it has firstly by building a conceptual argument. To build an argument such as, my organization has to build a resource-based view that describes what resources are valuable and ultimately creates long-term profits for the organization. According to Colquitt, Lepine, & Wesson (2015), resource-based view is a model that argues that rare and inimitable resources help firms maintains competitive advantage. Those inimitable resources include history with the organization, making numerous small decisions and socially complex resources. To retrieve those resources, a leader in an organization such as a manager should closely examine employees’ behaviors. (Colquitt et al., 2015) states that a number of factors affect performances and commitment include individual mechanisms such as a job satisfaction, stress, motivation, trust, justice, and ethics. Individual characteristics, group mechanisms and organizational mechanisms also factors in on an employee’s performance. One of my co-workers has been employed at the establishment for 5+ years now, and is a great asset and very beneficial at the organization because of her extent of knowledge and history. Recently the manager conducted an individual evaluation with each employee, unfortunate for her, she did not have the best evaluation. Discussing her concern with me, made me reflect, she is the longest employee with the company and she does what is required for her to...
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...Work Environments That Negate Counterproductive Behaviors and Foster Organizational Citizenship: Research-Based Recommendations for Managers Katherine M. Fodchuk Department of Psychology Old Dominion University Past research has identified both employee characteristics and aspects of the work environment that can serve as antecedents to positive and negative workplace behavior. This article reviews research identifying the major factors that prompt both counterproductive work behaviors (CWB) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). The dynamics of these relations are discussed, and possible approaches for workplace diagnosis and interventions designed to negate CWB and foster OCB are offered. A special focus on the implications of and possible interventions incorporating organizational justice are also presented. In the past several years, organizational behavior literature has benefited from a growing body of research that has moved beyond investigations of task performance and ventured into other performance domains of counterproductive work behavior (CWB) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB; Conlon, Meyer, & Nowakowski, 2005; Dalal, 2005). This research has revealed both employee characteristics and aspects of the work environment that can serve as antecedents to such positive or negative behavior. For instance, studies have examined organizational factors such as job design (Tompson & Werner, 1997), organizational injustice (e.g., Aquino...
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...IS 1800 Fall 2015 Study Guide for Final 1. 2. Computer defined 3. -4 major functions/operations of a computer- Input: gathering info, Processing: managing/ making decisions about data, Output: display of info, Storage: location of data on computer 4. Information system 5. Hardware/software 6. System software 7. -Application software: software to accomplish specific tasks like word processing or surfing the internet 8. Input/input devices: 9. Peripherals 10. -Data vs. information: data: raw unorganized facts, Info: organized data 11. Output/output devices 12. Types of computers 13. Ethics 14. Data mining 15. Fair use 16. Digital divide 17. –Clipboard: memory location maintained by the operating system used to copy or move text, objects, etc 18. “-grayed out” options: tinted grey indicating it’s disabled and can’t be selected 19. Ctrl + home 20. -Save or save as: Save as allows you to change name and location of file 21. File extensions and Office 2013 extensions 22. -Files and folders: File: collection of data that is saved, opened, and changed, Folder: container that stores files 23. Drive/drive letter and Path 24. My Computer/Windows Explorer 25. -File compression utility: software used to compress/decompress files 26. -Copying or moving a file: 27. Inbox 28. Contacts folder 29. E-mail defined 30. -Spam 31. –Phishing: attempting to acquire...
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..."Should employers be allowed to monitor personal communication of its employees?" Ellen Berkeley, Amy Davis, Shawn Molloy, Deborah O’Leary, Karey Raubenheimer BCOM 275 October 31, 2011 Professor Tom Melpolder Although organizations have monitored employees for centuries, a number of developments have greatly expanded the amount and scope of employee monitoring. For example, recent technological advances have dramatically altered the nature of work, the working environment, and employee–employer relationships. As a result, information technology has emerged as an integral part of today’s organizational infrastructure. These new technologies have the potential to improve worker efficiency and effectiveness. However, there are risks associated with any new technology including the potential for employee abuse resulting in negative consequences (Alder, Kuenzi & Schminke, 2008). Private communication such as e-mails and social media in the workplace has emerged as one of the stickiest legal issues of the electronic age” (Cappel, 1995). The debate is divided. One side believes that employers should not have full control over its employee’s personal communication. Their view is that employees should have the ability to communicate with friends and family while on breaks, as long as productivity isn’t affected. Further, they believe that employees have a privacy right and should be allowed to communicate while at work without being monitored...
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...According to Skinner’s theory, “Operant” refers to how an organism operates on the environment, and hence, operant conditioning comes from how we respond to what is presented to us in the environment. It can be thought of as learning due to the natural consequences of our actions (B.F.Skinner,1904-1990). Like all the learning theories out there, Skinners operant conditioning theory has both positive and negative (reinforcement & punishment) feature. There are various strengths to this theory, as well as weakness. Operant conditioning explains a broad range of phenomena, such as when a person is rewarded for a behaviour, it is more likely for it occur again. Many organisation employ the use of positive reinforcement to builds confidence and helps employees have a more pleasurable experience at work. While, avoid the side-effects of punishment or negative reinforcement, such as frustration, anger, anxiety and depression( Kashdan and Fincham,2004,p 484 as cited in Leslie E, Linsey N, Richard, 2012). Case study, Airbnb.Inc gives all of its employees $2,000 a year to travel anywhere in the world they want to.Besides the awesome travel stipend, Airbnbers allowed to bring their pets to work every day, they go sailing together, have a ping pong table, weekly Yoga classes is provide and get to eat organic lunches on a daily basis(Natalie W,2013). Positive reward will motivates efficient workers to continue to do a good job.In contrast, lack of reinforcement leads to job dissatisfaction...
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...Hello, good morning everybody, I am Jason, I am very glad to analysis the survival strategies at work for you. To explore how employees survive the alienating tendencies at work by developing various coping strategies. In the analysis that follows, we are seeking to access the domain of the informal activities in work that normally hidden from the gaze of the outsider. It is the domain where the subjective experiences of individuals are collectively constructed and reconstructed to create shared understandings and develop norms that guide and pattern behavior. Now the analysis begins with a discussion of the extent to which work produces conditions of alienation for employees. This is followed by an examination of the way that employees may counter alienating tendencies through various creative strategies. And there are five survival strategies are explored: making out, fiddling, joking, sabotaging and escaping. Alienation Let’s start with alienation—it is freely used in the media and arises in everybody conversation. Here we have restricted the discussion to outlining two different perspectives on alienation. The first views alienation as an objective state, and builds on concepts originally defined by Karl Marx, while the second introduces elements of subjectivity into the analysis of alienation, and terms from a study by Robert Blauner. Alienation as an objective state Marx argues that alienation is an intrinsic part of the capitalist labour process, and the...
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