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This 6 page report discusses the use and abuse of email and access to the Internet by employees. What are the issues in terms of rights to privacy compared to an organization’s right to control the actions of its workers? In the typical modern workplace, email serves as the primary mode for gossip around the proverbial watercooler but it is also a remarkably valuable form of instant, clear communication. Ethical and legal issues are presented. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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particular organizational landscape. The effectiveness of any communication can always be enhanced through an exhaustive and thorough study of the publics to which an issue is introduced in terms of
the subcultures within the public and analyzing the attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, and goals of those subcultures. Now consider such a statement within the context of the internal culture of an
organization. How are the different "subcultures" of employee groups, cliques, and different departments related to one another and how do those groups communicate their attitudes and opinions? In the
typical modern workplace, email serves as the primary mode for gossip around the proverbial watercooler. In fact, it is actually much more effective since the old "he said-she said" now
exists in the "To" and "From" messages sailing between workstations and discussing the workers at other stations not on the forwarding list. The situation has become one that has gained
enough negative attention to warrant the development of specific "in-house" email policies and establish penalties for not adhering to outlined dictates. Workplace Email Abuse In an article in Training
& Development (10/00), the un-named writer notes that: "... many email problems stem from blurred lines between personal and work time" (pp. 23). Because there is a blurring of the
boundaries that exist between that which is personal and that which is totally related to business, the confusion between that which is appropriate and that which is not have blurred.
But that same blur has taken place across all spectrums of the workplace as more workers telecommute from their home offices or who are granted a certain measure of autonomous
discretion regarding their access to the Internet within the parameters of their work requirements. A report in New Media Age (09/01) points out that: "The number of disciplinary
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