Conducting Personal Business During the Workday

CONDUCTING PERSONAL BUSINESS DURING THE WORKDAY

Mohammed Alamawi

Keller Graduate School of Management

GM410 ACC

Instructor: Melanie Fields

April 19, 2011

Conducting personal tasks and doing non-work related activities while during the workday and being paid for by the boss or company is definitely stealing. Ethics in business world is very important. The purpose of this paper is to inform employers, managers, and business owners about the ethical situation of doing personal business during the workday. I believe this problem is becoming a trend in the workplace, because it is becoming popular and increasing over the time.

A workplace can be a second home. And just like in the home, raising uncomfortable issues or accusing someone of impropriety can affect the entire group. Ethical dilemmas in the workplace have implications not only for those suffering from a crisis of conscience, but also for coworkers and clients.

Therefore my target audience is the employer, managers, and business owners, and the following solutions should help them solving this ethical problem. The first solution is, to have employers control the Internet access in the company’s network. The second solution is to set policies and guidelines address conducting personal business during the workday. The third solution is to have employees ask for personal time to conduct non-work related tasks.

The best solution is to have employees ask for personal time during the workday to conduct personal business.

Controlling Internet access, is a logical solution for the ethical problem I am discussing in this paper, however it is a general solution for conducting personal business during the workday, because it is just eliminating or controlling the time the employees spend on the internet only. Controlling Internet access means installing software to the company’s network to control and monitor employee’s Internet access.

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