Chapter 6 Part 2

Name: Adam J. Medina Class time: 12pm
KEEP THIS TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (EXCLUDING REFERENCE PAGE)

Author: Sara Baase
Date of Publication: 2008
Book: A Gift of Fire
Sections read: 6.4-6.5

1. (Knowledge)Tell three interesting elements of this chapter:
a. Something that I found interesting was employee monitoring, people cannot be trusted in their own working area.
b. Something else that was of interest to me was that people really embezzle money or merchandise from their place of work
c. One more thing that happen to be interesting to me was how there is a law to violate the privacy of your work place which is the ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) (Baase 340)

2. (Comprehension) Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?

What are being discussed in this chapter are employment monitoring, employee crime and other sorts of privacy violation at the work place. (Not a violation due to the ECPA)



3. (Application)Name a specific example or NEW solution for this type of problem/similar situation in society or that you have experienced – BE SPECIFIC AND EXPLAIN?

A new solution would have to be for employees to be honest and not steal from their work place in order to be trusted and possibly abolish the ECPA, so that privacy could be ours once again because I know that slowly we are losing our privacy upon everything.



4. (Analysis)Address ANY that apply. How can you compare one of the situations in this chapter to something that does not relate to computers, technology, or the Internet? Be sure to reference the chapter and your solution. What ideas NEW can you add to the issue that is being presented within the reading? Try to connect what you have by reading this article and how it applies to the stages in Bloom's taxonomy in 2 full sentences.

I think in the past something like this wouldn’t be happening in the work environment. While people in the past seem to be more honest and trying to earn an honest buck, not go around the system and embezzle things. Things were more privacy oriented; they seem less on background checks as well since they didn’t have the technology in the past to do things like this. Now things have change and technology is growing, and like Baase said, before bosses patrolled the aisle watching workers, now computer monitoring can be constant, more detailed, more detailed, and unseen. So it is a lot of privacy being lost. (Baase 335)

5. (Synthesis) Address all that apply. Do you agree with what is being said within the article (Why/Why not? Back up with FACTS)? What new conclusions can you draw about this (or other topics) after reading this material?

I agree with what is being discussed, after reading this material, because employees place this upon themselves, working people can’t be trusted because, they going to want more than what they have. You give them an inch and they take a yard. So when they are being watched all day it makes them preform productively and efficiently, but this is not fair for the workers who want their privacy, good workers not needed to be worried about, it might affect their performance. Baase even stated that it affects people of the white collar division as well.


6. (Evaluation) Address all that apply. Judge whether or not this topic is relevant in today’s society? Evaluate why you are viewing the topic in this manner based on your experiences. What ethical evaluations (see Chap1-1.4 for exmple of Ethics) or decisions were made/can be assumed from this chapter? What new ideas will you make after reading this chapter?

In today society this topic is relevant because computer monitoring is happening today but workers in general cannot be trusted to work in specific environment because of the evil temptation of embezzling the company you work for, and workers lose all ethics, values and morals, just for a quick buck or their own personal needs and it just isn’t fair to everyone else.




References


The Gift of Fire: Sara Baase: Chapter 6 section 6.4 and 6.5.1