Reference no: EM132619454

STEP 1

1. How much control should a company have over the private lives of its employees? Where should an employer's rules and controls end? Does the boss have the right to dictate what you do on your free time and in your own home?
2. When does management's need for information about employee performance cross over the line and interfere with a worker's right to privacy?
3. Is any action by management acceptable as long as employees are notified ahead of time that they will be monitored?
4. What about the demarcation between monitoring work and nonwork behavior?
5. When employees do work-related activities at home during evenings and weekends, does management's prerogative to monitor employees remain in force?

STEP 2

1. Describe the following performance approaches: balanced scorecard, benchmarking, performance prism and results-based management.
2. Are any of these approaches in use at your workplace?
3. Which one do you feel would be most effective in your workplace? Why?