BIZ Ch. 7

Which of the following statements about the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 is true?

A firm that secures employee consent to monitoring at the time of hire is immune from ECPA liability.

Which of the following is true about the "Hawthorne Effect"?

According to the Hawthorne effect, workers' productivity improves when they are singled out.

Identify the policy under which an employer refuses to hire or terminates a worker whose spouse works at a competing firm.

Conflict-of-interest policy

Which of the following states in the U.S. requires employers to notify workers when they are being monitored?

Connecticut

Which of the following is an advantage of drug testing?

Drug testing tends to provide a productivity benefit for companies.

Values that are fundamental across culture and theory are called:

Hypernorms

Name the legal violation that occurs when someone intentionally interferes on the private affairs of another when the interference would be "highly offensive to a reasonable person."

Intrusion into seclusion

The desire to place workers in appropriate positions, to ensure compliance with affirmative action requirements, or to administer workplace benefits is sufficient reason for employers to undertake employee ____.

Monitoring

Which of the following is true about privacy?

Privacy can be legally protected by the constitution.

According to economist Antonio Argandona, which of the following elements would include issues relating to company secrets, espionage, and intelligence gathering?

Respect for privacy

Which of the following prohibits the "interception" or unauthorized access of stored communications?

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986

Employees will be on their best behavior during phone calls if they know that those calls are being monitored. Identify this effect of employee monitoring.

The Hawthorne Effect

Which of the following acts stipulates that employers cannot use "protected health information" in making employment decisions without prior consent?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Identify the act that expanded states' rights with regard to Internet surveillance technology, including workplace surveillance, and amended the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

The USA PATRIOT Act

Which of the following is true about the USA PATRIOT Act?

The act expands states' rights with regard to internet surveillance technology

Which of the following statements about the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (GINA) is true?

Under GINA, an employer can collect genetic information in order to monitor the biological effects of toxic substances in the workplace.

Some companies have a(n) _____ policy under which an employer refuses to hire or terminates a worker on the basis of the spouse's working at the same firm.

anti-nepotism

The U.S. Department of Commerce negotiated a Safe Harbor exception:

because the U.S. would not qualify as having adequate protection.

If an employee's weight is evidence of or results from a disability, the employer must explore whether the worker is otherwise qualified for the position. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the individual is considered "otherwise qualified" if she or he:

can perform the functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.

_____ refers to the body of law comprised of the decisions handed down by courts, rather than specified in any particular statutes or regulations.

common law

If the basis for finding an invasion of privacy is often the employee's legitimate and reasonable expectation of privacy, then a situation where there is no real expectation of privacy occurs when the:

employee has actual notice.

When we do not get to know someone because we do not have to see that person in order to do our business, we often do not take into account the impact of our decisions on him or her. This is the challenge posed by the:

facelessness that results from the use of new technology accessible in the workplace.

According to Donaldson and Dunfee, examples of hypernorms include the right to:

personal freedom

From a utilitarian perspective, individual rights to privacy or right to control information about oneself may be outweighed in cases where:

public safety is at risk.

Two general and connected understandings of privacy have been identified: privacy as a right to be 'left alone' within a personal zone of solitude, and privacy as the:

right to control information about oneself.

The Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against an unreasonable search and seizure governs only the public sector workplace because:

the Constitution applies only to state action.