Deck 6: Work

Question 1

Which of the following reasons for monitoring email, voice mail, and computer files is considered legal?

A) Protect security of proprietary information and data
B) Investigate complaints of harassment
C) Prevent personal use of employer facilities if prohibited by company policy
D) All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

The practice of hiring companies or employees in other countries is known as:

A) Offshoring
B) Globalization
C) Downsizing
D) None of the above

Answer 2

Offshoring

Question 3

Define telecommuting. Give two advantages for the employer and two advantages for the employee. Give two problems associated with telecommuting.

Answer 3

Not answer

Question 4

What does the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) cover? Why does it make specific exceptions for business systems?

Question 5

Give two arguments for and two arguments against electronic employee monitoring.

Question 6

Roughly half of major companies in the U.S. sometimes monitor the email or voice mail of their employees on company systems.

Question 7

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) prohibits employers from intercepting and reading employees' stored email.

Question 8

In the 1980's, the AFL-CIO advocated a government ban on all computer at-home work.

Question 9

a. Give two examples of job categories for which the increased productivity of computer systems strongly reduced the number of people working in those areas.
b. Give an example of an area in which computer technology reduces jobs for skilled workers. Give an example of how computer technology enables people with less skill and/or training to do jobs that used to require more. Explain how computer technology changed the skill level required for these jobs.
c. Give two examples of jobs that did not exist before the Internet.

Question 10

Explain the ethical and social implications of "offshoring". Consider the issue from the perspective of both U.S. employees and foreign employees. Consider the issue from the perspective of companies hiring foreign workers.

Question 11

MATCHING

-telecommuting

A) working for an employer at a computer-equipped space in the employee's home
B) moving part of a business's operation to another country

Question 12

MATCHING

-offshoring

A) working for an employer at a computer-equipped space in the employee's home
B) moving part of a business's operation to another country