It205 Monitoring Employee Networks

CheckPoint: Monitoring Employees on Networks

* Read Monitoring Employees on Networks: Unethical or Good Business? on p. 206 of Essentials of Management Information Systems.

* Answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words:

* How does e-mail benefit an organization? Why might an organization want to limit how an employee uses e-mail during work hours? What is an e-mail’s path once it leaves an organization?

Email benefits than organization by allowing its associates to communicate efficiently with one another and with those outside of the company. E-mail servers provide a searchable database that an organization’s employees can access at any time. The statistics show that potentially 90% of all employees have sent or received personal e-mail while at work. Personal use of e-mail opens a company to liability issues and can jeopardize the company’s reputation. According to Laudon & Laudon, (2013), “some organizations operate their own internal electronic mail systems, [but] most e-mail today is sent through the Internet [mail servers]” (p. 208).

* What is the effect of instant messaging on organizational networks? What are benefits and drawbacks of using instant messaging in an organization?

Instant messaging within an organization can be beneficial because it allows participants a way to chat with one another privately in real time without the formality and extra steps that e-mail requires. There are potential security liabilities and productivity questions prompting management within some organizations to monitor these chat sessions (Laudon & Laudon, 2011).

* What are benefits and drawbacks of Web page and search engine use in an organization?

Web page and search engine use within an organization can be incredibly beneficial. The ability to search millions of databases within seconds for nearly any information one can think of gives associates a virtual world of information right at the tips of...