Assignment #1 – Electronic Surveillance of Employees Explain Where an Employee Can Reasonably Expect to Have Privacy in the Workplace When employees go to work, and clock in for all intensive purposes they are on company property and company time. Anything that occurs, or is said has to portray the company in the best way possible. When employees are on company property it is my opinion that the organization reserves the right to monitor their employees. The only place an employee should reasonably
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Leg 500 – Assignment 1 Electronic Surveillance of Employees is a video about a car dealership manager that uses electronic surveillance in order to eaves drop on his employees. From the manager’s point of view, he is ensuring the truthfulness of the employees in the best interest of the dealership. However, as one employee points out, the manager is not only invading the privacy of the employees, but also that of the customers. The saleswoman feels that her personal privacy, as well as that
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protect the business against any potential legal ramifications from dishonest sales employees. This is a very reasonable purpose for monitoring electronically to protect company interest. However, it would be in the interest of the company to communicate to its employees that they are being monitored so there is not sense of privacy invasion of its employees. As in the example with this case, it’s reasonable that the case can be made that electronic surveillance anywhere on the company property is reasonable
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Flor Leticia Rivera-Michel Strayer University LEG 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Niki Wilson January 25, 2011 1. - Explain Where an Employee Can Reasonably Expect to have Privacy in the Workplace. In this modern world is difficult to determine where our private life begins and ends and where our work life start, through the years we have seen how employees sometimes take advantage of the resources available to them in their workplace
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Running Head: Electronic Surveillance of Employees Electronic Surveillance of Employees Tenika Farris Professor: Anne Dewey- Balzhiser LEG 500-Law, Ethics & Corp. Governance 10/22/2011 Introduction New technology allows employers to monitor the job performance of their employees which has become a common practice in some workplaces. This procedure can be accomplished through e-mail, telephone, camera, internet and other electronic surveillance monitoring systems. This procedure was
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Assignment #1 – Electronic Surveillance of EmployeesStrayer University LEG500 – Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Assignment #1 – Electronic Surveillance of EmployeesExplain Where an Employee Can Reasonably Expect to Have Privacy in the WorkplaceAlthough the law on employee privacy rights is still developing, various federal and state laws limit and define what employers can do when monitoring their employees (Dillon, Hamilton, Thomas, & Usry, 2008). Under federal and most state
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Jorge Munoz Strayer University Week Three Assignment # 1 Law- Ethics and Corporate Governance Professor Eric Baime July 17 of 2011 Assignment #1 – Electronic Surveillance of Employees View the video: “Electronic Surveillance of Employees” by clicking on the link in the course shell. There is also a link that will allow you to print the script of the video. Write a four to five (4-5) page report that answers the following: 1. Explain
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LEG500: Law, Ethnics and Corporate Governance 17 July 2011 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Reasonable expectation of privacy for an employee could require a balancing test as what the US District Court judge used in the 1996 case of Michael A. Smith v. The Pillsbury Company. The judge ruled in the defendants favor saying that Pillsbury’s “interest in preventing inappropriate and unprofessional comments or even illegal activity
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Week 3 Assignment # 1 LEG 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance By Anthony McKenzie Presented to Prof. Moses Cowan February, 16, 2012 1) Explain where an
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Electronic Surveillance of Employees Terri Stanley October 19, 2011 LEG500 Law, Ethics & Corporate Governance Professor Mischelle Best Abstract Electronic surveillance of employees is becoming more and more popular with companies. With the variety of computer programs and monitoring systems available for the sole purpose of monitoring what employees are doing while on the clock electronic surveillance of employees is on the rise. Issue of thief
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