Purchase Solution

Workplace privacy: Where would you draw the line

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Currently, workplace privacy is a very hot topic and it continues to be a contentious issue because technology is outpacing the law. New technologies for communication and new technologies for surveillance go beyond what the law has previously addressed.

Explain what right to privacy you believe an employee should enjoy at work.

Describe what right to surveillance a company should have in watching over employees it is paying and property it owns.

Note: If you are not in management or do not own a company, consider what rights you would want for surveillance with regards to a nanny you hired to watch your child in your home.

The hardest ethical dilemmas to decide are ones that involve competing rights. Explain where you would draw the line with regards to workplace privacy.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The current technologies that exist allow employers to monitor every aspect of an employees work day. Phones, computers, email, hidden cameras, wireless cameras, digital programs designed to monitor patterns at computer stations and the amount of idol time at the workstation can be monitored. Employees are watched on hidden cameras as they work to ensure production rates are maintained and no goofing off are occurring and in many cases are disciplined for what is seen on the video (Evans, 2007).

Solution Preview

In the past two decades, the way employees are monitored in the workplace has dramatically changed, however the laws that protect employees rights to privacy are still outdated and offer little to no protection against how an employer monitors employees. In the past, when an employee came to work, there was a general expectation of security monitoring for the purposes of deterring theft and maintaining site security. Outside of that, there was limited monitoring capability. Employees enjoyed a sense of freedom at work. That is no longer the case.

The current technologies that exist allow employers to monitor every aspect of an employees work day. Phones, computers, email, hidden ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Understanding the Accounting Equation

These 10 questions help a new student of accounting to understand the basic premise of accounting and how it is applied to the business world.

Managing the Older Worker

This quiz will let you know some of the basics of dealing with older workers. This is increasingly important for managers and human resource workers as many countries are facing an increase in older people in the workforce

Situational Leadership

This quiz will help you better understand Situational Leadership and its theories.

Marketing Management Philosophies Quiz

A test on how well a student understands the basic assumptions of marketers on buyers that will form a basis of their marketing strategies.

MS Word 2010-Tricky Features

These questions are based on features of the previous word versions that were easy to figure out, but now seem more hidden to me.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • This posting discusses Levy and Associates hidden cameras

    If the camera were situated as to where it would not film ANY area that has a reasonable expectation of privacy, the court would find that the camera is not in violation of the law, but as it is now, it definitely is illegal.

  • Are Marketing Departments Crossing the Line?

    As an example, we would expect privacy in certain places, like a workplace restroom, locker rooms, changing rooms, and anywhere else where we would expect no one would be watching or tracking our movements.

  • Boundaries in the Workplace

    219525 Privacy in the workplace What are some of the boundaries of privacy in the workplace? Each state has different privacy laws but , in general, the laws are written to protect the privacy of the employer and the employee.

  • Electronic Monitoring for Organization

    Nevertheless, if an employee is issued a company phone and is allowed to use it for personal use as well, then the company has to draw the line and give the employee the privacy he needs in using a phone as he would have if he wasn't using a company phone

  • Information Security

    Where do you as a CIO draw the line on what is sufficient and what steps do you take to determine where that line is? Explain.

  • Impact on employees of 'drug-free workplace' campaign

    This line of research shows a credible reason that employers would prefer not to have employees using drugs who are employed by them.

  • Electronic Surveillance of Employees

    , in which, when the door is closed, conversations cannot be heard and where one would expect virtually total privacy.

  • Differences among constitutional, statutory, common laws

    Now, we will discuss about the areas, where the privacy of the employees is being compromised.// There are several areas at the workplace, where the privacy of the employees is compromised.

  • Ethics in Business Management

    •If you had to come up with a definition of privacy in the workplace, what would it be? Discussion Questions: 1. In your own words, describe what privacy means and what privacy protection companies should give employees. 2.

View More Related Solutions