chapter 11 ethics assignment discussion question: 1. Using the categorical imper
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chapter 11 ethics assignment
discussion question:
1. Using the categorical imperative (pages 16-17) and utilitarian (pages 40-41) perspectives, assess the ethics of each situation above
2.Suppose someone from the IS department notifies you that one of your employees is spending 3 hours a day writing Twitter messages. How do you respond?
3.For question 2, suppose you ask how the IS department know about your employee, and you are told, “we secretly monitor computer usage.” Do you object to such monitoring? Why or why not?
4. Suppose someone from the IS department notifies you that one of your employees is sending dozens of personal emails every day. When you ask how he or she knows the emails are personal, you are told that IS measures account activity and when suspicious email usage is suspected the IS department reads employees’ email. Do you think such reading is legal? Using the categorical imperative and utilitarianism, assess the ethics of secretly reading employees’ email. How do you respond about your employee
5.As an employee, if you know that your company occasionally reads employees’ email, does that change your behavior? If so, does that justify the company reading your email? Do the ethics of this situation differ from having someone read your personal postal mail that happens to be delivered to you at work? Why or why not?
6. Write what you think is the best corporate policy for personal computer usage at work. Specifically address Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other personal social networking sites. Justify your policy using either the categorical imperative or utilitarianism
Explanation / Answer
1.The reaction must not be in favour of the employee as he is spending a lot of time on twitter which is not in company
interest.As this activity does not have any part in company growth so its utilitarian perspective is zero.
Also this activity motivates others to do the same so he should abondon that.
2.If we talk about only usage then there is no problem because it does not include any private data.It is important for a department to know how much time their employee spend online but if they are monitoring every actions like what we are doing online ,which sites we are accessing then it may cause employee to loose their privacy.But their is one thing too office is not a place to do private work.
3.Monitoring data usage and accessing websites are fine but to minitor employee's email is a privacy breach which mo one can tolerate.the department should monitor data usage but no company has power to access the personal information of their employee.also this type of reading is not legal.
If we talk about ethics ,yeah this is good for the department to know all about their employee but we sholud also take care of our employee too.
4.Yes.this will surely change my behaviour beacuse these mails are personal and we can share anything on it but we got to know that someone is reading these this will create a thought in our mind that our privacy is not secure here .
We prevents us to share information to others in mail as these are not secure.
I don't think both are different because both are personal mails readed by other ,just their forms are change .one is in hard form and one is in soft form .So the both situation are same for me.
5.I think the best policy by the company will be they only monitor the total data usage of an employee.It will not cause their priacy and if we talk about social networking they should be block in an organisation beacause they will only distract minds of the employee and waste their time which they use in doing some work which is good for the department.
this covers both the ethics utilitarian perpective and categorical imperative.
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