Reynaldo Marasigan                                         IT-ETHICS                                              February 12, 2008

Book Review 6

Title: The Right Thing    

          Conscience, Profit and Social Responsibility in Today’s Business

Author:  Jeffrey L. Seglin

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You’ve Got Mail, You’re Being Watched the Chapter it talks about a certain company about the mail of the employees. After having a written policy about the email, the company experience sending mails with an unpleasant pictures, thoughts etc. The study about the companies mail realize that it came from some other employees, they decided that the company will check mails of the employees, that they will monitor it. The fact that the employs has their own privacy and it could also demoralize the employees. It will be hard for them eland they can loss the trust of their employees. The company can have this right like web tracking or web sense that it would track the things that they want to track like pornographic materials, off shore jokes and etc.

The book tells that they should make them employees welcome.  Then the privacy sometimes becomes not the issue sometimes the root cause comes from the top management why will this employees do such works. The book suggests that they must know what do the employees needs.

Another chapter of the book talks about lying, cheating, and stealing this issue is best address by the employees behavior that is not motivate. The big impact of this thing thru the company is a big threat. It is how small fabrications told inside the company. The chapter deals with the different mal-functioning of the system and how it is happen. And how this employee does often happens to this kind of behavior.

Leading is another chapter of the book.  Leading is very important in a business to lead the employees to do what is right what is ethical. When management becomes aware that there is something that might cause harm to the company’s employees. Bosses often set the tone for behavior in the workplace. While it’s common for employees to enjoy bantering about the boss’s shortcomings around the water cooler the truth is the better a boss is a managing employees fairly, the more likely it is the employees will respect the boss.

The business is basically consists of employees and the leaders. They are the one who will make the business function. The relationship between them is the core and that must be fair, equal and stable.

One could argue that that responsible management and doing the right thing often characterized by the same things. . . but you can’t infer that ever decision about the right thing to do is necessarily doing to be good for the company,. Sometimes doing the right thing can have tragic consequences.

            A written policy without anything else is worse than not having a policy. It is when there is a policy yet still every people would not follow it. The situation is that the policy is written without proper implementation. The objective is not to help but to instruct and give directives. The people must know whats the real purpose of this policy so that they could follow it. In any sense the point is not clear unless it would not be used and the policy is nothing unless no one would try to use it.