Ethics in Information Technology

Case Study 2

You lead a group of five mobile software engineers involved in the development of a new mobile cloud service for providing voice over internet protocol (VOIP) that enables calls to be made over WiFi but better than Microsoft’s Skype VOIP product. Your manager tells you that because of a company-wide layoff, you will need to give notice to one member of your team. From your interactions with team members, you can easily identify the two members who are least productive, but you are not sure which of them you should lay off. You know that the company keeps track of all Internet traffic to each person’s computer, although you have never shared this information with your team. You could use this information to determine how much time, if any, these two employees are spending surfing the Web.

What might be some of the implications by accessing these records? What might be the key ethical and/or moral issues, from your perspective, with using these records to make a managerial decision? How does this play into what we learned in this course about monitoring and surveillance of employees?

Your paper should be about 4 to 6 pages long (not including the title page and the reference page). References must be listed and cited in APA format. The final paper may be subjected to checking against plagiarism (turnitin.com) by the Instructor. The final paper must follow acceptable originality criteria (no more than 15% originality score).

Save the file using the following file naming convention: ITMG481_Case_Study_First_Last.doc(x) (where first and last are your first and last names resp.) and submit the file in this assignment area. Turnitin.com has been enabled for this assignment so remember that your submission’s file type must be either doc or docx.