BUSINESS ETHICS(Privacy at workplace)

PREPARED BY:

MOHD ZIA UDDIN B.NASIR

HAZIQAH BT. HAMDAN

FATIN NADZIRAH BT. SHAMSUDIN

Privacy at workplace Are related on what extent the organisational can

influenced in private live of their employees.

Methods used to obtained information from their employees and the working conditions in the workplace.

when it comes to workplace privacy creates trust, certainty and security for both employers and employees. Employers, employees and their representatives need to know what information may be collected and retained by employers and whether it can be passed on to others.

Organisational influence in private lives

Employees right to privacy has become particularly vulnerable with the development of recent technologies, particularly computer technologies.

Legitimate and illegitimate covers that the work contract of firm’s responsibilities to owners, consumers and society at large.

Purpose is to make the firm itself all support the preposition that the firm is legitimately interested in whatever significantly influences work.

Organisational influence in private lives

Involvement in civic activities:-

• To enhance their image in the community, businesses and other organisations have long prodded employees to donate to charitable causes during company-led fund-rising drives, or encouraged them to participate in public-spirited activities off the job.

Health programmes

• Sometimes organisations pressure employees in certain directions for “their own good.”

Intensive group experience

• To enhance and fully utilised the employees potential for perceiving, thinking, feeling, creating and experiencing.

Obtaining information There are several moral concerns on how the employees obtain any

information from their employees:-

1. Informed Consent implies deliberation and free choice. Everyone agrees that for consent to be legitimate, it must be voluntary.

2. Polygraph Test implies on employees whether they are lying or not (Device which act as lie detector)

3. Personality Tests that can reveal highly personal information, and they often intrude into areas of people lives and thoughts that people normally consider private. (Birth month, blood types, and etc)

4. Drug Testing have been implemented in many companies in nowadays to find any drug abused on their employees.

Working conditions In general practical, the conditions under which

people work include personnel policies and procedures, as well as the extent to which an organisation is committed to respecting the rights and privacy of its employees which are Health And Safety, Management Styles, and Day Care Maternity Leave.

Case Study Sexting case raises workplace privacy

issues The future of employee privacy rights in the workplace may hinge on

a case that the U.S. Supreme Court is taking up today involving a cop and sexting.

Jeff Quon, a California SWAT sergeant, was given a pager from his employer, the Ontario Police Department. He was later found to have used the device not only for work but also for pleasure, often sending sexually explicit text messages to his wife and his mistress.

Quon’s employer found out about his personal use of the pager after an investigation looking into excessive texting at the department. Quon cried foul, saying he thought the messages were confidential.