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Assignment: Ethical Dilemmas and a Leaders Character Case Study

Most business organizational cultures are driven, in large part, by the character and temperament of the senior leader. So when the nightly news reports that another company has been spying on their employees - sometimes with and sometimes without the employees' knowledge or consent - is the public surprised? Or is this the accepted norm in today's business world? Surveillance in most industries is on the upswing. There are several reasons, including the huge growth in two sectors with theft and security problems - services and information technology, respectively. It is also worth noting that organizations differ in their culture on employee surveillance and that some of these differences are due to the type of business being conducted.

Consider the following surveillance actions, and decide for each whether it would never be ethical (mark with a N), would sometimes be ethical (mark with S), or would always be ethical (mark with A). For those that you mark with an S, indicate on what factors your judgement would depend.

I. Sifting through an employee's trash for evidence of wrongdoing.

II. Periodically reading e-mail messages for disclosure of confidential information or inappropriate use.

III. Conducting video surveillance at work.

IV. Monitoring web sites visited by employees when not at work, including private postings to Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, etc... and determining the appropriateness or not of those postings.

V. Monitoring a person's faith and religious practices.

VI. Taping phone conversations.

VII. Posing as a job candidate, an investor, or a customer (when the real purpose is to solicit information from the employee).