Professional Assignment 1

Article#1:

Martin, K., Freeman, R.E. Some Problems with Employee Monitoring. Journal of Business Ethics 43, 353–361 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023014112461

Article Aim:

The goal of this research is to explore seven of the most frequently advanced justifications against employee monitoring. None of these arguments is conclusive, and each one necessitates management and moral reflection. The article concludes that a more extensive investigation with an ethical focus is necessary to advance our understanding of the complexities of employee monitoring. The latter section of this paper details how such an investigation would go.

Article#2:

Mujtaba, Bahaudin G. (2003). Ethical implications of employee monitoring: What leaders should consider. Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship. 8. 22-47.

Article Aim:

Owing to the increase in cyberloafing and lawsuits, employee monitoring has become more prevalent and much easier using new and cheaper technologies. The ethical problems of constant monitoring affect both employers and employees. While businesses utilize monitoring devices to track the actions and productivity of their employees, their employees feel that excessive surveillance invades their privacy. This explores employee monitoring ethics and discusses existing procedures. This publication also includes tips for decreasing cyberloafing and supports institution building and effectively communicating ethical norms for employee monitoring in their organizations. The author presented actual samples of employee thoughts and attitudes from surveys and talks on monitoring.

Article#3:

Ramayah, T. (2010). Personal web usage and work inefficiency. Business Strategy Series, 11(5), 295–301. https://doi.org/10.1108/17515631011080704

Article Aim:

The purpose of this study is to examine the personal use of the internet during business hours. The study's objective is to determine whether these unauthorized usages result in job inefficiency by utilizing a convenience sample of 126 employees from the Penang (Malaysia) Free Trade Zone area who responded to a structured questionnaire. Due to the preliminary nature of this investigation, an appropriate sample frame was judged unnecessary. The study's objective was to gain a sense of the current situation before proceeding on a bigger scale.

Article#4:

Wen, H. J., & Lin, B. (1998). Internet and employee productivity. Management Decision, 36(6), 395–398. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749810223628

Article Aim:

With the growth in the online interest, Internet access is becoming standard for companies. Corporate managers are facing issues in censoring unwanted material and limiting the visibility of recreational areas that could affect employee productivity. There are dual concerns: firms need to prohibit and monitor anything that is judged unfit for online employees, including, to name just a few, gender, violence, nudity, racism, and pornography; limit employee spending time on web surfing and recreational websites while they are at work. Managers trying to assess employee productivity on the Internet have important tips. It essentially entails a methodical strategy to investigate broad concerns related to Internet access, blocking, and monitoring, as well as the nature of your organizational culture and policy.

Article#5:

Ngo Higgins, H. (1999), "Corporate system security: towards an integrated management approach", Information Management & Computer Security, Vol. 7 No. 5, pp. 217-222. https://doi.org/10.1108/09685229910292817

Article Aim:

This article describes an integrated security approach that involves several functional levels from the board and management to IT employees and individual users. The topic discusses security challenges on gateway interface, internal network, and corporate files at the policy level and critical control implementations. As this strategy incorporates numerous layers, the security environment can be reinforced. This conversation can be used as a guideline for corporate security management, as security audit components, and as an internal communication to increase corporate security awareness. The broad view of this debate benefits managers, auditors, controllers, and consultants working on security challenges.

Article#6:

Torten, R., Reaiche, C., & Boyle, S. (2018). The impact of security awarness on information technology professionals’ behavior. Computers & Security, 79, 68–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2018.08.007

Article Aim:

This research examines the association between threat awareness and countermeasure awareness of IT professionals' compliance with desktop safety behaviors. The model originally put up by Hanus and Wu (2016) was evaluated on a population of 400 IT workers spanning a wide variety of U.S. IT positions and firm sizes. Overall findings reveal that 61.2% of variability in desktop security behavior may be explained by awareness of threat and countermeasure. The research also identified a significant relationship between threat awareness and countermeasure awareness with the five variables of protective motivation theory (PMT), including perceived severity, perceived vulnerability, self-efficacy, reaction efficacy, and cost of response. Finally, research demonstrates that all PMT factors, except perceived vulnerability, significantly determine desktop security behavior.