Directions: Address each in sufficient detail to show your mastery of the information. Name your file with last, first name and return as a Word document via email. Failure to follow directions will result in loss of points. Return NLT Saturday, April 30, 2016 and no late submissions are accepted.
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1. Discuss the steps businesses and governments have taken to better protect stakeholder privacy.
2. Is information on the Internet truly free, or should copyrighted music or software be protected? Be sure to support your answer.
3. Describe a current trend in corporate governance, providing a real example.
4. Why have U.S. institutions become more active as investors? How has this trend spread to other countries?
5. Consumer advocates argue that consumers are entitled to five core rights. What are they? Explain each.
6. How do new technologies increasingly enable businesses to collect and use vast amounts of personal data about their customers and potential customers? Explain. Do you think these trends benefit consumers or not, and why?
7. (20 points) Workers in the United States enjoy several important legal guarantees. Discuss three major worker rights. What are the U.S. laws and regulations that govern each?
8. (20 points) As the use of electronic communication at work has risen, new ethical issues involving worker privacy have emerged. Should employers be allowed to read employee e-mail, inspect their Facebook pages or blogs, or access files located on a personal computer at work? Why or why not?
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