Identify a recent (within the last six (6) months) moral dilemma or ethically questionable situation relating to ICT that you are familiar with. This situation can be either in the media (for example...

Moral/Ethical Business Concern
Moral/Ethical
Business
Concern
August 18
2016
[Word Count: 1547]
Contents
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 2
ABOUT EMPLOYEE MONITORING ................................................................................................................. 2
DET ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................................................ 3
What is going on? What are the facts? (Simpson, C., 2003) ..................................................................... 3
What are the accessibility issues? ............................................................................................................ 4
Who is affected? ....................................................................................................................................... 4
What are the ethical issues and implications? ......................................................................................... 4
What can be done about it? What options are there? ............................................................................. 4
Which option is best? Why? ..................................................................................................................... 5
ACS CODE OF CONDUCT ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................... 5
CONCLUDING REMARKS ............................................................................................................................... 7
REFRENCES .................................................................................................................................................... 7
ETHICAL/MORAL BUSINESS CONCERN
INTRODUCTION
The paper takes into account the excessive monitoring and surveillance of the employees and the
activities that are being performed by him/her online, using the IT infrastructure and setup of
ABC Corp, and that the corporation has initiated a campaign to exercise control over each and
every minute detail. This whole activity turns to be wrong ethically, because exercising
excessive control, further refers to barging into the personal sphere of an individual and tends to
harass the individual to some extent or the other and there are controls and authorities that raise
their voice against the same. Recently, many human rights organizations and NGOs have been
debating over the issue, to fix a limit over the level at which scrutiny should be implemented so
that it solves two purposes, and does not compromise security of the firm. (Martin, K.,
Freeman, R., 2003)
ABOUT EMPLOYEE MONITORING
Each and every organization however big or small has to work in accordance and in sync with
the outcome of the employees. In a business, a lot depends on the performance of the employee,
as the goods and services are produced by them, and whatever is the outcome, has to be floated
in the market. In a way, it would not be wrong to quote that business is what the employees make
of it and the whole existence, survival and the ultimate prosperity of a business holding depends
upon the employees, and is affected by them to a much larger extent.
Motivation is the key behind the prosperity of a business concern if we talk in consideration with
the output of employees. (Mishra, Sharma, 2010). Human resource management points out that
employee can be easily demotivated, if they are not dealt with effectively, and the sensitive
issues tend to demotivate them to a greater extent. One such sensitive topic, that has been the
major topic of discussion and debates is that of excessive monitoring of the activities of the
employees and that has been a major factor in demotivating the employees, as it is in the very
human nature, that whenever someone is monitored or put under severe surveillance, it is taken
as an offensive act, and the person...