Please read the scenario and answer the questions below You are the CEO of Flowe

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Please read the scenario and answer the questions below

You are the CEO of Flower Power, Inc., a fast growing chain of 100 florist shops based in the Southeastern United States. The company opened for business 5 years ago with just 20 employees and now has over 1500 employees.

The company is now in the process of installing a new computer network, which will, for the first time, link all of the company’s offices and locations. The company’s Chief Information Officer has approached you with a proposal to include a number of electronic surveillance features in the new network.

The proposed features include:

Your approval is needed to install this network and these features.

3.Discuss the pros and cons of alternative courses of action.

4.Recommend a decision and provide the rationale for your decision.

Please read the scenario and answer the questions below

You are the CEO of Flower Power, Inc., a fast growing chain of 100 florist shops based in the Southeastern United States. The company opened for business 5 years ago with just 20 employees and now has over 1500 employees.

The company is now in the process of installing a new computer network, which will, for the first time, link all of the company’s offices and locations. The company’s Chief Information Officer has approached you with a proposal to include a number of electronic surveillance features in the new network.

The proposed features include:

• The ability of all MIS staff to view any employee emails at any time
• The ability of all MIS staff to monitor what internet sites employees are viewing at any time
• The ability of all MIS staff to “shadow” PCs of any employees, at any time, without the consent of those employees (“shadowing” allows a person, such as the MIS staff person, to monitor all a user’s activity on your PC from a remote location without the user’s knowledge)
• If a PC or laptop is issued for an employee’s use away from the office for work use, all email and activities on that PC or laptop can be monitored as well
• Cameras will be installed on PCs of every employee, allowing all MIS staff to monitor activities of every employee in their workspaces at any time

Your approval is needed to install this network and these features.

3.Discuss the pros and cons of alternative courses of action.

4.Recommend a decision and provide the rationale for your decision.

Explanation / Answer

There can be many guiding factors ranging from Legal to ethical. Any electronic equipment issued by company can be used to monitor the employees as long as the scope is retricted to office related surveillance.

One needs to balance the concern of data security vs privacy. Having unfettered rights to anyone to monitor someone else's all activities will definitely raises questions about fundamental rights of individuals.

It is always GOOD to have all such capabilities. However, it is NOT advisable to monitor these activities on a regular basis or the way KPIs are monitored.

I would recommend restricting the scope to office E mails and office data management on cloud or servers

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