Law and Ethics in the Business Environment 7th Edition by Terry Halber – Test Bank

Law and Ethics in the Business Environment 7th Edition by Terry Halber – Test Bank

LAW & ETHICS IN THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER 3

Privacy and Technology

Questions

1. Employees’ emails are private and are protected under the law.
   1. True
   2. False

ANSWER:  B PAGE: 71

1. Employees can now be secretly and intrusively spied upon by their employers, and it is perfectly legal.
   1. True
   2. False

ANSWER:  A PAGE 76

1. In considering the legality of employer interception of employee e-mails at work, pick the correct statement.

1. I.Employees have complete expectation of privacy since they can select their password for in-house and remote access of e-mails. 
2. II.A subpoena is required by the employer to read any e-mail that is clearly marked “confidential” by the employee. 
3. III.No expectation of privacy exists over an employer-owned computer system at work.  
4. IV.Statement by the employer that e-mails are confidential and privileged cannot be later used by an employer to defeat an employee’s claim of privacy

a. I only

b. II only

c. III only

d. I and IV

ANSWER:  C PAGE:  85

1. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA):

1. supplements the Omnibus Federal Employee Workplace Privacy Rights Law of 2008.
2. has been an effective law because employee privacy intrusions are less common and steadily declining since 2000.   
3. restricts employer access to public chatroom interactions.
4. fails to protect employees in most situations involving e-mail monitoring by public and private employers.

ANSWER:  D PAGE:  89

1. According to the article excerpted in the text entitled, The Functions of Privacy, by Alan Westin, privacy has several functions in today’s society. These include:
   1. Total freedom in the private life with no consequences to the work life. 
   2. The ability to express dissatisfaction without risk of exposure. 
   3. The ability to be post critical information on the Internet without consequences at work. 
   4. The ability to spend time quietly analyzing the actions and reactions of other people.  

ANSWER :  B PAGE:  91

1. A majority of states have enacted “lifestyle rights laws” that protect workers’ off-duty activities including cases of smoking, cohabitation, drinking. and single parenthood.  What is the least effective argument by an employer to regulate off-the-clock activities in a state that has not enacted such lifestyle rights legislation?

1. It will provide a healthy work force.
2. Unregulated employees are less productive.
3. There is no invasion of privacy since the employee is “at will.”
4. To prevent higher health care and insurance costs.

ANSWER:  C PAGE:  93-4

1. One reason employers use to justify givin