The Ethics of Monitoring Employees

The Ethics of Monitoring Employees

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
• Consider that monitoring employees web access, and restricting access to risky sites, is a best
practice for most organizations. How far should monitoring go? For instance, consider the situations in which an employee is looking at job sites to look for a new job, or looking at weapons and terrorist sites, or researching cancer treatments. Does permitting access to risky sites pose a risk to the organization?
• Present a stance you would take from a leadership position in the U.S. on the ethical limits of  monitoring employees versus your stance if you were in a leadership position in a different country, such as China or North Korea.
• Provide a policy statement to support either stance; for example, “The organization will strictly restrict web access by employees in order to promote security and avoid leaks of sensitive information”
Technology

The Ethics of Monitoring Employees

Monitoring employees is crucial for companies, mostly to ensure that the risk of cybercrime and to ensure that anything that could harm the company’s reputation is prevented. The employees should have the right to access company resources and use the internet in a safe manner for things like new job opportunities or other places an employee would like to visit (Lichtenstein 2011,). However, access to the internet must be limited to prevent accessing websites that could lead to damage to any computer in the company. In the majority of cases it is not recommended to browse through weapons or terrorist websites through the organization’s computers is not advisable. It is because it is easy to gain access to confidential information of an organization through cyberattacks if any computer inside the organization is compromised. In order to prevent this it is crucial that access to the majority of websites is controlled and monitored quickly.