Assignment 1: Electronic Surveillance of Employees Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance – LEG 500 Strayer University. January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy has become an extremely important part of American culture. Privacy is freedom from unsanctioned intrusion (American Heritage Dictionary). It is an implied right based on the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments of the Constitution (August, et al., 2001). Employees
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1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the work place. Aside from the more measurable costs, employees emphasize their need to preserve at work what they expect to maintain elsewhere, a sense of dignity and self-respect. Within the workplace typical employees would expect to have minimal. Privacy in this aspect gives individuals, from factory workers to presidents a chance to lay their masks aside. The more employees share space, cubicles and networked computers,
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees LEG 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Human beings need privacy and have a right to expect privacy in certain areas of their lives. The areas where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace are very limited. Common decency precludes monitoring in highly private locations, such as bathrooms. Personal items, such as purses
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Assignment #1 - Electronic Surveillance of Employees Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. The given video case describes the private-sector employers’ surveillance activities. In this point, private-sector employers want to make sure that their business assets are not being violated at any time by anyone. Employers have the right to protect their business success, their finances, their buildings, and all of their equipment. There should be no expectations
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Law Ethics and Corporate Governance Electronic Surveillance of Employees 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. From the time an employee reaches his work place or is on a sales call he is typically on either company property or he may be on property owned by a customer of his company. So that employee is now utilizing company time- which he is being paid for, equipment and supplies. Taking this into
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Michael Crollman Strayer University October 19, 2011 Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace only when there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. This means that if you are in a situation or location at the workplace where a reasonable person would expect that they would be alone and isolated, then you could reasonably expect privacy. Very few
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ASSIGNMENT 1: ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE OF EMPLOYEES DATE: APRIL 18, 2011 Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. In accordance with the U.S. Constitution, the right to privacy for employees was granted under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the Fourth Amendment guarantees the right of the people to be secure in their persons, hours, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures of a person
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aspect of what employees do in the office environment, from email, surfing the Internet to phone conversations. Federal and state laws specifically address an employer's right and ability to monitor, save, record, access, or otherwise conduct surveillance of employees' use of company electronic communication resources and systems. Generally speaking, if an employer complies with the notice and consent requirements under these laws, and writes and distributes policies consistent with the laws, it
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reason to ensure the productivity of the employees at workplace. An employee should be able to reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace in areas that may be physically invasive such as the bathroom, a private office if the electronic surveillance method being used is wiretapping without prior consent in some states. An employee should not expect to have privacy involving company email systems, phone lines, voicemail, cell phones and pagers, and while using company computers regardless if
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees John Burnett Professor Dorothy Sliben Legal 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Strayer University October --,2011 Introduction I am rather pleased that I was able to successfully complete assignment I, Electronic Surveillance of Employees paper which highlights the overall pros and cons as they relate to the privacy of an organization's most integral commodity, the employee. The work surveillance is closely scrutinized
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