mkt 375 ch 7 EXAM 3
Which of the following is a disadvantage of monitoring?
Monitoring tends to constrain effective performance since it can cause increased stress and pressure.
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
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
According to ethicists Thomas Donaldson and Thomas Dunfee, the right to _____ is an example of a hypernorm.
physical movement
The utilitarian view holds that individual rights to privacy or right to control information about oneself may be outweighed in cases where:
public safety is at risk.
An employer can resolve the concerns related to the "Hawthorne Effect" through:
random, anonymous monitoring.
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.
Most statutes or common law decisions provide for employer defenses for all of the following EXCEPT those rules that:
treat one group differently from another considering lifestyle practices.
A social contract restricts the right to privacy by preventing people from infringing on someone else's right to his or her personal autonomy.
true
A study completed in 2014 by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicted that data monitoring of employees will decrease over the next decade as Generation Y is absorbed into the workforce.
true
According to the "Hawthorne Effect," merely knowing one is being studied might make one a better worker.
true
Discrimination laws do not necessarily protect workers against adverse action based on the identity of the person they married.
true
Employers are not prohibited from making employment decisions on the basis of weight, as long as they are not in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they do so.
true
Identify a legal violation that occurs when someone intentionally interferes in the private affairs of another when the interference would be "highly offensive to a reasonable person."
Intrusion into seclusion
Which of the following statements is true about monitoring?
It has the potential to cause physical disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
Identify a true statement about the "Hawthorne Effect."
It maintains that workers' productivity improves when they are singled out.
Identify a true statement about the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) of 2008.
It prohibits discriminatory treatment in employment based on genetic information.
Employees will be on their best behavior during phone calls if they know that those calls are being monitored. This can be attributed to the:
Hawthorne effect.
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.
Identify a policy under which an employer refuses to hire or terminates a worker whose spouse works at a competing firm.
Conflict-of-interest policy
Identify an act that expanded states' rights with regard to Internet surveillance technology, including workplace surveillance, and amended the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act
Which of the following is true about the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act?
The act expands states' rights with regard to Internet surveillance technology.
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.
antinepotism
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 a challenge posed by the:
facelessness that results from the use of new technology accessible in the workplace.
Ethicists Thomas Donaldson and Thomas Dunfee have developed an approach to ethical analysis that seeks to differentiate between those values that are fundamental across culture and theory hypernorms and those values that are determined within moral free space and that are not hypernorms.
true
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) stipulates that employers cannot use "protected health information" in making employment decisions without prior consent.
true
Monitoring allows a manager to ensure effective, productive performance by preventing the loss of productivity to inappropriate technology use.
true
Privacy is important because it serves to define one's individuality.
true
The "invasion of privacy" claim developed through case law called intrusion into seclusion.
true
The Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against an unreasonable search and seizure governs only the public sector workplace.
true
The European Union's Directive on Personal Data Protection prohibits EU firms from transferring personal information to a non-EU country unless that country maintains "adequate protections" of its own; in other words, protections equivalent to those the directive guarantees in EU countries.
true
The concept of property rights involves a determination of who maintains control over tangibles and intangibles, including, therefore, personal information.
true
The value of privacy to civilized society is as great as the value of hypernorms to civilized existence.
true
