Management of Information Systems
20100202 김정훈
Interactive Session: People Monitoring Employees on Networks – Unethical or Good Business?
1. Should managers monitor employees e-mail and Internet usage? Why or why not?
I personally think that monitoring employee’s e-mail(s) and Internet usage is good because it will make employees to work more productively, in other words reduce time wasting. If employees know that they are being watched they may fear of being caught wasting time through Web usage. Monitoring employee’s e-mails and Web usage may seem little unethical but it will definitely make a better business due to employees being more productive. As well employers can catch employee’s racist e-mails, boss cursing e-mails, and complaints about their company, from knowing all of these situations a company can help the working environment to become more efficient and healthy.
2. Describe an effective e-mail and Web use policy for a company.
I think e-mail and Web use policy may differ greatly on the way you see. If you think as an employer you will proabably want to monitor employee’s Web behviro. However, employees probably don’t like being watched. Therefore, I thought satisfying both employer and employees could be an effective e-mail and Web use policy. The new policy provides employees to a specific amount of free Web usage time such as 20minutes per day. However, e-mail policy should depend whether a company will make strict rules of freer atmosphere for employees, and I think it will be difficult to make an effective e-mail usage policy because if employees figure out that employers are reading your e-mails they will stop expressing their emotions or send personal information to other people through e-mails.
3. Should managers inform employees that their Web behavior is monitored? Or should managers monitor secretly? Why or why not?
I think managers should not inform employees that their Web behavior is monitored, because if an employer doesn’t tell employees that they are
Interactive Session: People Monitoring Employees on Networks – Unethical or Good Business?
1. Should managers monitor employees e-mail and Internet usage? Why or why not?
I personally think that monitoring employee’s e-mail(s) and Internet usage is good because it will make employees to work more productively, in other words reduce time wasting. If employees know that they are being watched they may fear of being caught wasting time through Web usage. Monitoring employee’s e-mails and Web usage may seem little unethical but it will definitely make a better business due to employees being more productive. As well employers can catch employee’s racist e-mails, boss cursing e-mails, and complaints about their company, from knowing all of these situations a company can help the working environment to become more efficient and healthy.
2. Describe an effective e-mail and Web use policy for a company.
I think e-mail and Web use policy may differ greatly on the way you see. If you think as an employer you will proabably want to monitor employee’s Web behviro. However, employees probably don’t like being watched. Therefore, I thought satisfying both employer and employees could be an effective e-mail and Web use policy. The new policy provides employees to a specific amount of free Web usage time such as 20minutes per day. However, e-mail policy should depend whether a company will make strict rules of freer atmosphere for employees, and I think it will be difficult to make an effective e-mail usage policy because if employees figure out that employers are reading your e-mails they will stop expressing their emotions or send personal information to other people through e-mails.
3. Should managers inform employees that their Web behavior is monitored? Or should managers monitor secretly? Why or why not?
I think managers should not inform employees that their Web behavior is monitored, because if an employer doesn’t tell employees that they are