Question

Samson Company is an engineering firm. Many of the employees are engineers who are working individually on different projects. Most of the design work takes place on computers. The computers are connected by a network and employees can also "surf" the internet through their desk top computers. The president is concerned about productivity among his engineers. He has acquired software that allows him to monitor each engineer's computer work. Anytime during the day, the president can observe on her screen exactly what the different engineers are working on. The engineers are quite unhappy with this monitoring process. They feel it is unethical for the president to be able to access what they are working on without their knowledge. Describe the pros and cons of monitoring through observing the computer work of the engineers.

Answer 1

Answer:

Both pros and cons are explanied below.

Explanation:

Pros: First of all, the president of the firm can know exactly what the employees are looking at. Secondly, due to that previous reason, the president can know and be aware of, if there is one or more than one person that may surf in the internet for thing that are not appropiate (illegal weapons,etc) and therefore to contact police about. Moreover, the president will also have information about what every employee look at and therefore to comprehend or at least try to understand the employee better, but in an unethical way.

Cons: Well, in this case, the president is doing a very harmful and unethical technique in order to obtain what only he cares about and therefore that he is thinking very individually and that can harm the organization in a huge way. Moreover, the president will broke the privacy of the employees by doing it and that action will impact negatively in the workers and that will influece as well in their work in the company and consequently in the productivity of the firm.