Assignment: Electronic Rights
Assignment: Electronic Rights
Assignment: Electronic Rights
STAKEHOLDER RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY , AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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and video of personal conversations, dinners, and hotel rooms. On Tuesday Megan went to Jeremy, who worked for the company for several years, and asked him if he knew of employee tracking at the company.
Jeremy responded, “Well, I have heard rumors that managers want to keep track of employees and monitor whether they share confidential information with competitors. I’ve also heard they monitor where each employee goes through the GPS located in the company car.”
Megan felt uneasy. “Jeremy, is what they are doing legal? Can they track and monitor our every move and conversation?”
Jeremy shrugged. “As far as I know it’s legal, but I’ve never looked into the actual laws. I don’t know why a company should track my personal time outside the office. But what are we supposed to do about it? We all need a job, and each one comes with a price.”
On Thursday Megan met with Debbie and expressed her concerns about the information GAC collects through the employee tracking activities. After she finished, Debbie responded. “Don’t be so naïve, Megan. You know as well as I do what employees do outside of work could legally hurt the company. It’s also necessary to make sure employees aren’t sharing confidential information with rivals. This is a competitive industry.”
“But what about this employee using the company car to visit his daughter in the hospital? It was outside work hours and I heard his daughter is sick. What about an individual’s right to privacy concerning medical records?”
Debbie brushed her concerns aside. “We don’t have access to anybody’s medical records. We got this from the GPS device in the company-owned car issued to him. We can’t make exceptions for these types of things. Our reputation for ethics is excellent.”
Then Debbie said, “I hope you haven’t spoken to anyone about these cases because that
After Megan Jones finished her BS degree in Management at The University of Rhode Island, she landed a great job with the “app” developing company Global App Creations (GAC). In her six months of training in Human Resources (HR) she faced challenges, but enjoyed working with people and solving their problems.
On Monday morning Megan’s boss, Debbie, placed a 20 – inch-thick personnel folder on her desk. “Megan, I want you to review these files and by Friday start the process of finding possible ethics violations. Some employees know this is coming, while others don’t have a clue. It’s your job to write them up for ethics violations and suggest whether you think some of them should go to legal as well. I will add my write-up to each one so you won’t be the only one making the decisions. For now, I’ll make the primary decisions, but sooner or later you’ll be in charge of these tasks. If you have any questions, just stop by and we can talk.”
That afternoon Megan began going through the files. Some were straightforward involving theft of office supplies, inappropriate remarks, and tardiness. GAC’s code was straightforward on such matters. Yet other events appeared confusing. One salesperson was getting an official reprimand for using a company car for personal activities. This didn’t make sense because all the salespeople drove company cars they took home after work. According to the file, the person visited a hospital ten miles away every evening for the past month. Megan realized every GAC car was equipped with a GPS device. While she didn’t think it was illegal for companies to install tracking devices on items they owned, she heard having information about health or religion could become the basis of a lawsuit if the person’s employment was terminated.
The
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
- The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
- Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
- Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
- One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
- I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
- Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
- In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
- Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
- Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
- Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
- Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
- I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
- I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
- As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
- It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
- For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
- Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
- Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
- Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
- The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
- Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
- If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
- I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
- As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
- Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
- Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
- Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.
