Samson Company is an engineering firm. Many of the employees are engineers who are working individually on
Question:
Samson Company is an engineering firm. Many of the employees are engineers who are working individually on different projects. All of the design work takes place on networked computers, thereby allowing employees to ‘surf’ the Internet.
The president is concerned about productivity among her engineers. She has acquired software that allows her to monitor each engineer’s computer work: any time during the day, the president can observe on her screen exactly the task on which the different engineers are working. The engineers are quite unhappy with this monitoring process. They believe that it is unethical and a breach of their privacy for the president to be able to access their computers.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of monitoring through observing the computer work of the engineers.
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Management Accounting In A Dynamic Environment
ISBN: 9780415839020
1st Edition
Authors: Cheryl S McWatters, Jerold L Zimmerman