ADMS 3660 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Closed-Circuit Television, Occupational Injury, Sleep Deprivation
29 Apr 2017
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Chapter 7: privacy and influence in the workplace, moral issues raised by employee screening & monitoring, working conditions. Screening potential and new employees: age, gender, race, marital status, weight, hobbies etc, personality profiling, medical tests, polygraph. Threats to employee privacy: web-browsing records, email monitoring, phone & voice mail monitoring, video surveillance, keystroke monitoring, genetic & blood testing. Privacy conclusion: workers have a right to privacy. Information gathering can be subject to abuse so, fully informed consent in required. Health and safety: accidents do not just happen, they are caused by: Increased violence in the workplace: 2004 - 356,000 workplace violent incidents, not counting verbal abuse or psychological harassment, example: 2005 - 73,000 nurses were assaulted =1 in 3. New health challenges: epidemics, occupational injury, shift work. Sleep deprivation and fatigue = accidents: stress. Redesigning work: changing attitudes toward work, dissatisfaction on the job, business seeking ways to motivate employees and increase productivity, hawthorn effect (1920s)
