MGT 464 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Business Matters, Job Performance
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You can go a long way toward avoiding worker resentment and legal entanglements by observing two key principles: Make sure that you do only what"s necessary for your business purposes. Do your best to reduce employees" expectations of privacy in the workplace. Keeping tabs on what employees are doing at work is a legitimate interest for an employer. It gives you an objective way to evaluate job performance. Helps you detect theft, thwart disclosure of confidential information, prevent discrimination and harassment, and ensure that employees are not misusing company equipment. If your business provides computers for employees to use in their work, you may worry about whether employees are suing computers are you intend. You can buy software that enables you to check on the websites that employees are visiting. Adopt a policy saying that employees are to use your computers only for business matters during their work hours.
