Employee Privacy Report The need for businesses and organizations to access the internet has brought about several concerns regarding employee privacy while emailing and surfing the internet at the workplace. Each employee is given access to company issued computers and equipment, and consider his individual email messages and internet browsing to be private. In most organizations, security controls, such as passwords, are used to ensure privacy; however, the internet systems managers still have
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Employee Privacy Report your name COM/285 March 28, 2011 University of Phoenix CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY: I certify that the attached paper is my original work. I affirm that I have not submitted any portion of this paper for any previous course, and neither has anyone else. I confirm that I have cited all sources from which I used language, ideas, and information, whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased. Any assistance I received while producing this paper has been
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Karen Saucedo Week 5 Individual Assignment Employee Privacy Report COMM 285 June, 13 2011 Just about every business these days runs off of using the internet and email. Whether it is to communicate with people within the office, or people on the other side of the world, email is usually the main source of communication. Just about every company has their own policies on how their employees can use the internet, some companies have a very limited policy, while other companies are very strict, and
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Running head: BUSINESS WRITING PORTFOLIO Business Writing Portfolio COM/285/Introduction to Business Communication September 28, 2011 Business Writing Portfolio The public relations manager will present information regarding changes in a retail store operations to three sets of stakeholders of a retail clothing chain. The stakeholders are store managers, employees, retail customers, and the public. The adjustments regarding employees working fewer days a week in an effort to combat rising
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Employee Privacy Report • Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word report addressing e-mail, Internet use, and privacy policies. Answer the following questions in your report: o What are the e-mail use, Internet use, and privacy policies at your job? The email policy at my job at the Florida Foundation for Families (hereinafter “FFF”) are that work email is strictly to be used for work purposes and not for personal use. The policy is covered in our Employee Handbook, and states that the rationale
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Business Communication Trends Paper COM/285 Jan Professor Business Communication Trends Paper Business communication plays an important role, as it facilitates effective communication at the workplace, which helps the business and the organization as a whole to gain success. Business Communication provides the managers at the workplaces to effectively and efficiently coordinate with all the aspects and fields of the business. It is an effective tool that enables the managers at the workplaces
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1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy has become extremely important part of American culture. Lately, work place privacy has brought unwanted and costly litigations. To protect the company from those kinds of litigations, organizations are monitoring employee communications carefully. Although according to courts the private organizations have rights to monitor employee communications. In order to this `` Employee surveillance and email
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Employers and employees often have conflicting interests in the workplace. One of these conflicting interests concerns the privacy rights and considerations of the employees versus the rights of the employer to monitor the activities of its employees. A relaxed, comfortable workplace promotes good morale but too much comfort can result in a workforce that takes their responsibilities for granted. Achieving a happy medium is the ultimate goal. The development of modern technology has provided employers
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where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. With the increased use of technology, employers are constantly searching for new means to protect their company, secure their investments, and increase employees’ productivity. Because of this, employees cannot reasonably expect to have privacy within the workplace. Although employees would like privacy in their office, on their computer, and during phone conversations, there is no law legally granting privacy to employees
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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
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