Compare the employer and employee positions on electronic
monitoring at the workplace.
As an employee of an organization, your productivity during
your time at work represents the performance portion of the pay-for-performance
contract you entered into with the company when hired you. Therefore, your
actions during that time are at the discretion of the company. The organization
has an obligation to its stakeholders to operate as efficiently as possible,
and to do so it must ensure that its company resources are not misused. From an
employee's viewpoint, his or her contract should not intrude upon his or her
civil rights as an individual. As such, employees should be notified of any
electronic monitoring and its purpose. Electronic monitoring also implies that
employees cannot be trusted, which raises the question: Why did the company
hire that employee?
Source: Ghillyer_Business Ethics A Real World Approach 2e
Source: Ghillyer_Business Ethics A Real World Approach 2e
