Debate

Debate

Management View

It is often argued that employing various employee monitoring practices is unethical . I as a manager would like to argue against that

Drug Testing

Carrying out uninformed drug tests is absolutely essential in many organizations . It is a manager 's responsibility to ensure that its employees are healthy because otherwise , the employee 's productivity will be low . Also , as a manager , he must ensure that all avoidable costs are reduced . This also includes the cost of health care benefits given to employees (Workplace Fairness . Drug tests ensure

that employees do not indulge into drugs and this means that they would not need health care benefits which reduce the business 's cost

Telephone Privacy

The Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibits tapping someone 's phone calls made from public BBS , but in an organization when an employee uses a company 's phone , the higher authorities have full right to listen to their telephone calls because the phone is not the employee 's personal property (Freibrun S . E ) It belongs to the business therefore all the activity that is done through it can be monitored . Besides , this is done for the benefit for the organization only and not for any personal satisfaction . Employee 's conversation with clients can be monitored in to ensure quality control (Privacy Rights ) To make it fair , the employees are told that the phone line can be monitored

Email Privacy

The case of email privacy is very controversial and is almost the same as telephone . When an employee is using an employer 's privately-owned internal e-mail system to send and receive emails , he must understand that the employer has a right over the activity that is done through them . The employees are also informed once they are registered with a business 's email address that they are not granted full privacy if the organization plans on monitoring the activity in future . They are told that the email address is only for business purposes . Why should he be then allowed to use company facilities for personal use

Privacy

There are many fields where private life of employees is not too distant from their life as employees for a business . This is the reason why some management feels that it is important for them to know what their employees do after they get off from work . It is possible that an employee is passing our business secrets and in for the business to not give them away , it has to make sure that an eye is kept upon the employees . If for example , a certain blog by an employee becomes responsible for unrest and discontent at work , the employees responsible needs to be held accountable

Employee View

When managers try to justify unfair employee monitoring practices , they are trying to justify unethical behavior . It is a breach of privacy and no justification can make it reasonable

Drug Testing

If the organization does not want their employees to be involved in drugs , that should be a...